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Leading the Implementation of High Quality Instructional Materials to Enact Standards
Professional Learning Unit |
High-quality instructional materials (HQIM) designed for next generation science can make a difference in the quality of equitable science teaching and learning throughout the educational system and for all learners (i.…
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Leveraging Assets to Build on Student Experiences, A Focus on Curiosity
Professional Learning Unit |
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…
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Solving the Problem of Finding Authentic Problems Students Can Solve in the K-12 Classroom
Professional Learning Unit |
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? In this Professional Learning Unit…
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We have got a Problem to Solve! Now What?
Professional Learning Unit |
Science standards based on A Framework for K-12 Science Education require us to provide opportunities for students to learn “how science is utilized, in particular through the engineering design process, and they should…
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Digital Collaborative Spaces for Sensemaking
Professional Learning Unit |
Whether you are teaching in the classroom, distance-learning environment, or a combination of the two, our goal remains the same – to provide ALL students opportunities and access to science learning. In this…
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Supporting Student Development of Science and STEM Identity
Professional Learning Unit |
What is a STEM identity, and why is it important for all students? Gain insight and strategies to help your students develop a STEM identity.
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Integrating Engineering Practices and Career Competencies into Science Classrooms
Professional Learning Unit |
A Framework for K-12 Education calls for the integration of engineering design into K-12 science classrooms. This PLU introduces the challenges and opportunities this shift raises. Participants will explore connections…
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Addressing Laboratory Activity Safety Hazards/Risks: Hierarchy of Controls
Professional Learning Unit |
Science instructional sites (e.g. laboratory, classroom, field) can be unsafe, given the potential biological, chemical, and physical hazards and resulting health and safety risks. This module will help teachers learn a…
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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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Analyzing and Interpreting Data to Support Student Sensemaking in a High School Evolution Unit
Professional Learning 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…
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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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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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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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The Three Dimensions of Teaching and Learning: Capstone
Professional Learning Course Module |
The capstone experience provides the opportunity to analyze and reflect on the high-quality science lesson Do Materials Change if they are Crushed? This lesson was selected from The Garbage Unit, part of the fifth-grade…
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