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Professional Learning Unit
Scientist Circles: Fostering Student Participation and Collaboration in Class Discussions
Moving students into a circle so they can see and speak directly to each other can transform a quiet classroom into a collaborative discussion space!...
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Creating Class Consensus Models to Support Student Sensemaking
Gain experience and strategies in using the wealth of your students’ ideas to collaboratively build consensus models for complex phenomena....
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Analyzing and Interpreting Data to Support Student Sensemaking in a High School Evolution Unit
This Professional Learning Unit uses a storyline unit with an anchoring phenomenon that is a case study in which the patient has acute mountain sickness at Everest base camp to focus participant learning on how the Science and Engineering Practice An...
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How Do I Begin to Develop a Storyline for a Unit?
In this introduction to Storylines, educators will be introduced to the Key Features in Curriculum Materials that Support the Framework and NGSS. They will then hear experts describe the key routines in a storyline unit and explore a high-quality NGS...
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Supporting Equitable Sensemaking - A Strategy for Educators
How do students build targeted science ideas and concepts? The Supporting Equitable Sensemaking - A Strategy for Educators PLU explores how the use of modalities and intentional student interactions create opportunity to build ownership of science id...
Professional Learning Unit
Learn to recognize the four critical attributes of sensemaking and how these attributes work together to help ensure all students have access and a strong desire to learn science. ...
Professional Learning Unit
Leveraging Assets to Build on Student Experiences, A Focus on Curiosity
During this Professional Learning Unit, we discuss instructional strategies that take an asset approach to student learning. The discussion will focus on how the knowledge students bring to learning—including student curiosity, questions, experienc...
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Solving the Problem of Finding Authentic Problems Students Can Solve in the K-12 Classroom
Is identifying and choosing relevant, authentic problems to put in front of your students holding you back from providing opportunities to engage your students in engineering design?...