Disciplinary core ideas are fundamental ideas for understanding a given science discipline. DCIs provide tools for investigating complex ideas and solving problems, and are taught throughout grade levels to progress levels of depth and complexity.
“Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.” — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything ...
Journal Article
Many teachers and schools are coming to recognize the importance of sensemaking in the science classroom. But what does an NGSS-informed sensemaking l...
A valuable framework for promoting sensemaking includes the convergence of two independent ideas: (1) the focus of modern education on teaching for un...
NSTA Press Book
There’s a lot to love about this newly expanded book in the Picture-Perfect Science series: You can combine STEM and reading through appealing lesso...
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