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Seven crosscutting concepts bridge disciplinary boundaries and have explanatory value to help students organize their thinking and connect knowledge into a coherent and scientifically-based view of the world.

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Concentrating on Cross-Disciplinary Connections: Using reaction rates to help students make connections between chemistry and biology.

Too often, science courses (e.g, biology, chemistry, and physics) are disconnected from one another. When this happens, students often don’t see ho...

 

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Making Scientific Sensemaking Visible

Many teachers and schools are coming to recognize the importance of sensemaking in the science classroom. But what does an NGSS-informed sensemaking l...

 

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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 un...

 

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Computational Modeling With Multilingual Learners

While the vision for science education through A Framework for K–12 Science Education (NRC 2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) co...

 

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Growing Students' Meaning-Making

In this sensemaking lesson, K–2 students explore how different factors influence seed germination and explain the elements necessary to sprout. Note...

 

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How it All Happened

A circle of fourth-grade students sit around Mrs. Ray, who shows videos and images of two natural events: large rocks that have fallen from a cliffsid...

 

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Heart-Stopping Rollercoasters
 

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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, April 11, 2023
 

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Promoting Sensemaking
 

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Ten Years of NGSS: Where Are We Now?
 

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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, February 28, 2023
 

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