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  • Action Research: Using a 5E Instructional Approach to Improve Undergraduate Physics Laboratory Instruction

    Journal Article | April 2020

    A physics laboratory instructor used action research to effectively implement a 5E instructional approach, which incorporated scientific practices. The instructor explored how to integrate the instructional approach…

  • Planting 3D Instruction in Your Classroom

    Journal Article | June 2020

    for real-world phenomena, examples or events …

  • Supporting Equity in the Classroom

    Blog Post | April 2020

    is something to focus on when we choose relevant, authentic phenomena … to use the three dimensions to make sense of phenomena.  …

  • Teaching and Learning Through Storylines

    Blog Post | March 2020

    students engage with anchoring phenomena such as watching a video in which … whether a new plastic cup keeps a drink colder. These phenomena result … the problem. Repeatedly in the unit, the class returns to the phenomena …

  • Making Student Thinking Visible

    Blog Post | April 2020

    in the three dimensions to figure out phenomena. For students, making thinking … for all students to “go public” when making sense of phenomena—revealing …

  • Chemical Bonds

    Lesson Plan | April 2020

    structures and phenomena. Provide an opportunity for students to critique … structures and phenomena. Provide an opportunity for students to critique … An enormous variety of biological, chemical, and physical phenomena …

  • The Teaching of Evolution

    Position Statement | June 2020

    and events. Phenomena that can be observed or measured are amenable … are not a part of science. As a result, explanations of natural phenomena … science is limited to explaining natural phenomena through testing based …

  • Supporting Equity in the Classroom

    Blog Post | January 2020

    is something to focus on when we choose relevant, authentic phenomena … to use the three dimensions to make sense of phenomena …

  • Inquiring Astronomy: Incorporating Student-Centered Pedagogical Techniques in an Introductory College Science Course

    Journal Article | March 2017

    Increases in student-centered pedagogy have been more prevalent in K–12 education than in collegiate undergraduate science education. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of using student-centered…

  • Remote Learning: What I Thought I Knew, and What I Learned

    Blog Post | July 2020

    to collaboratively formulate questions arising from phenomena, then building … to focus on phenomena-driven instruction with sensemaking at the forefront … We quickly began to adapt our phenomena-driven units and lessons to a remote …

  • Distance Science Learning

    Blog Post | July 2020

    sense of phenomena and solving problems is a keystone of three-dimensional … teaching and learning. Having students’ questions about phenomena drive … concepts to explain how or why phenomena occur. However, engaging in science …

  • Justice-Centered Science Pedagogy: Leaning Beyond the Boundaries of Equity and Culturally Responsive Practices

    Blog Post | May 2020

    has led to a much-needed shift from decontextualized science learning to phenomena … on real-world phenomena.  … it was evident that without phenomena of consequential concern, students were still …

  • Investigating Environmental Racism in the High School Biology Classroom

    Blog Post | May 2020

    Now my units are based on justice-centered phenomena, ones that encourage … racial phenomena in ecology called environmental racism … the phenomena lead students to have complicated conversations about racism …

  • How Do Asteroids Cross Earth's Path?

    Lesson Plan | June 2020

    with phenomena related to the phenomenon over Chelyabinsk, Russia. Students … related phenomena might include "shooting stars", planes or land vehicles … a few minutes, ask students to share their related phenomena with a partner …

  • How Does Some Corn Pop?

    Lesson Plan | July 2020

    are centered around relevant science phenomena and raise common questions … explanations of phenomena. Conversely, they are intended to move student thinking … to be authentic, phenomena-driven, rooted in science, and focused on  …

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