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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, April 23, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
Journal Article
Using Lessons from History to Guide the Implementation of AI in Science Education
It is critical to understand past science education reform to know what could be explored in the future (Cheng et al., 2010). The purpose of this po...
By Aria Hadley-Hulet, Marc Ellis, Austin Moore, Emily Lehnardt, Max Longhurst
Journal Article
We are now a decade past the release of the NGSS —an event that has shaped the way we teach science. The NGSS, with its three-dimensional approach e...
By Patricia McGinnis
Journal Article
Standards-based grading (SBG) is an alternative approach to grading that uses standards, such as the NGSS, to communicate what students have learned. ...
By Jesse Wilcox, Matt Townsley
Journal Article
Though zoos and aquariums have become increasingly focused on conservation education, their menageries of unique and diverse learning opportunities ha...
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Journal Article
The purpose of this article is to describe a lesson aimed at teaching students the function of enzymes in order to obtain mastery of NGSS Standard HS-...
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Journal Article
A Solar Panel Modeling Project for Chemistry
The Solar Panel Modeling Project challenged 10th-grade chemistry students to apply knowledge of Atomic Models to explain electricity generation in a s...
Journal Article
This two-part article will describe four powerful key ideas embedded in the Framework and the NGSS and ways in which early educators might leverage th...
Journal Article
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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Journal Article
Performance Assessment as Part of Efficient, Effective, and Equitable Instructional Practice
Since the release of the NGSS, science classrooms across the United States have shifted science learning away from a focus on decontextualized facts a...
By Lauren Stoll and Jill Wertheim
Journal Article
The Use of Storytelling to Model NGSS Science and Engineering Practices
An important strand of three-dimensional learning in the Next Generation Science Standards is science and engineering practices (SEPs; NGSS Lead State...
By Adrienne Larocque and Anna Babarinde
Journal Article
Promoting Learning for All Through Explore-Before-Explain
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) highlight the importance of creating more equitable learning environments and engaging all students in sc...
By Patrick Brown, Jay McTighe, and Rodger Bybee
Journal Article
Questions are powerful tools teachers can use to understand and scaffold students’ thinking (Clough 2007). However, not all questions are equally ef...
By Jesse Wilcox, Kean Roberts, Jacob Kaemmer, Jessica McKenzie, and Carson McClain
Journal Article
Journal Article
How Does Sound Travel in a String?
In Chinese science curriculum, the sound unit generally starts with observing various sound making phenomena and finding out that they all involve vib...
By Gang Shu, Xiaowei Tang, and Huimin Chen