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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.
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Creating Class Consensus Models to Support Student Sensemaking
Professional Learning Unit |
Gain experience and strategies in using the wealth of your students’ ideas to collaboratively build consensus models for complex phenomena.
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Co-Constructing Classroom Agreements with Students
Professional Learning Unit |
Science is social! Norms can support a classroom community in which students and teachers actively try to make sense of the natural and built worlds.
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Evaluating Lessons for Sensemaking Using the NSTA Sensemaking Tool
Professional Learning Unit |
The NSTA Sensemaking Tool (adapted from the research-based NGSS Lesson Screener) is designed to help educators be critical consumers of curricular materials as well as create and/or revise science lessons to reflect the…
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Using the Putting the Pieces Together Instructional Routine
Professional Learning Unit |
In this module, educators will be introduced to the four elements of the Putting the Pieces Together (PT2) Instructional Routine. In the Putting the Pieces Together Instructional Routine, students synthesize ideas they…
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Scientist Circles: Fostering Student Participation and Collaboration in Class Discussions
Professional Learning Unit |
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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Resisting Rote: The Importance of Active Learning for All Course Learning Objectives
Journal Article |
Many college science educators have moved away from the traditional lecture format and toward learner-centered classroom environments. Yet many of us struggle to cover large content loads, reverting at times to rote…
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Learning to Write and Writing to Learn in Science: Refutational Texts and Analytical Rubrics
Journal Article |
Most middle school science teachers are familiar with the idea of reading and writing across the curriculum. We, as science teachers, understand that our students need time, practice, and lots of encouragement in order…
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Supporting Ambitious Science Teaching
Professional Learning Unit |
In this Professional Learning Unit, we'll look at how Ambitious Science Teaching helps teachers focus on finding ways for all students to participate in science, making science compelling to a wider group of learners,…
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How Do I Begin to Develop a Storyline for a Unit?
Professional Learning 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…
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Science Notebooks in Student-Centered Classrooms: Module 1: Using Science Notebooks for Sensemaking
Professional Learning Unit |
In this module, you will examine various ways scientists use science notebooks and a science notebook strategy to experience the critical components of sensemaking.
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Research and Teaching: Growing a Learning Assistant Program: Using Perceptions to Inform Improvement
Journal Article |
The authors describe a study used to gather learning assistant and faculty member perceptions to understand if programmatic goals of learning assistant programs are being met.
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Journal Article |
This articles describes a course that provided students with hands-on research opportunities and benefited the animals’ behavioral welfare.
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