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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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Co-Constructing Classroom Agreements with Students
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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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Creating Class Consensus Models to Support Student Sensemaking
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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
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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
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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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Evaluating Lessons for Sensemaking Using the NSTA Sensemaking Tool
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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
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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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The Three Dimensions of Teaching and Learning: Capstone
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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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Supporting Ambitious Science Teaching
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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?
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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
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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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The Three Dimensions of Teaching and Learning: Module 3: Crosscutting Concepts
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The Three Dimensions of Teaching and Learning: Module 4: Integrating the Three Dimensions
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The Three Dimensions of Teaching and Learning: Module 2: Science and Engineering Practices
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Science Notebooks in Student Centered Classrooms
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Science notebooks are a powerful and flexible tool to support students’ sensemaking. The science notebook creates a space for students to document their thinking, develop and revise models, plan investigations, and…
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