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The BSCS 5E Instructional Model is a research-based approach to designing instructional sequences within a unit where each phase (engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate) is used as the basis for one or more lessons.

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The Birds and the Bees, the Flowers and the Trees

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Right Under Our Noses

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Bee-ing There for Bees: Are Bees Disappearing?

In this lesson, suggested for grades K-2, students learn about bee anatomy and behavior. They develop and test bee models to demonstrate their understanding of the interrelationships between plants and pollinators. After examining some of the controv...

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How Can We Provide Water for Developing Countries? 5E Unit Empowers Students to Solve the Global Water Crisis

Students use science knowledge and engineering skills to address a significant real-world problem. ...

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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, July 22, 2025
 

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Unlocking Expansive Learning in the Science Classroom

Explore-Before-Explain...
 

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Nature Around our Schools: Using Nature Journaling to Promote Species Identification of Local Flora and Fauna

With environmental issues and awareness rising globally, our connection to the natural world is clearly critical, but education that teaches children how to relate to local plants and animals is seemingly lacking in elementary curriculum. For an unde...
 

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Wild Wonderings: Scientists and Their Questions

Click here to view video of Wild Wonderings Let your curiosity run wild! This lively book will inspire you to ask questions like scientists do. Why? Because questions can lead you to amazing discoveries. Like what? Like when theoretical physicist ...
 

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Wild Wonderings: Scientists and Their Questions

Click here to view video of Wild Wonderings Let your curiosity run wild! This lively book will inspire you to ask questions like scientists do. Why? Because questions can lead you to amazing discoveries. Like what? Like when theoretical physicist ...
 

Reports Article

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, November 12, 2024
 

NSTA Kids

Next Time You See a Snowflake

Click here to view video of Next Time You See a Snowflake This book will have you seeing snowflakes in a whole new way. You’ll learn about the science of snowflakes – how they form, why they are six-sided, what conditions are necessary for the...
 

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Phenomenon Walks

For preservice K–5 teachers, understanding how to implement phenomenon-based learning in an elementary classroom is an important skill, particularly as it relates to integrating the Next Generation Science Standards. This article presents one way t...
 

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Patterns are Everywhere: Exploring the schoolyard to facilitate thinking about science phenomena

After realizing the difficulty educators face with integrating the crosscutting concepts (CCCs) from the Next Generation Science Standards into their lessons and noticing missed opportunities for caregivers to engage children in scientific thinking, ...
 

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Explanation and Argumentation: How Middle School Students Make Sense of the Phenomenon of Niagara Falls

The Framework and NGSS emphasize using lines of evidence to construct explanations and develop arguments that demonstrate understanding about scientific phenomena. For this vision to be actualized in science classrooms, students must engage in invest...
 

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Sparking students’ curiosity: Embedding strategies to promote curiosity alongside teaching static electricity

In this article, we use the strategies listed above to engage students in a 5E lesson on static electricity (partially addressing MS-PS2-3). We start the engage phase by using a “magic trick” as a hook to engage students about static electricity....
 

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Promoting Sensemaking Through an Impactful Instructional Sequence

A valuable framework for promoting sensemaking includes the convergence of two independent ideas: (1) the focus of modern education on teaching for understanding and transfer, and (2) a purposeful sequence of instruction with those ends in mind. In ...

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