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Social-Emotional Learning in the Science Classroom
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By Patty McGinnis
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Integrating Careers Into Your NGSS Lessons
Middle school is a critical time when students form ideas and preferences regarding careers they might pursue. Employers sometimes have difficulties filling STEM job openings, yet students often are not even aware these jobs exist. The middle-school ...
By Kyle Gray, Jill Maroo, Alan Czarnetzki, Sadik Kucuksari
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Expanding Language Use: Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners’ Sensemaking in Science
Students bring with them rich cultural and linguistic ways of knowing and communicating when engaged in figuring out explanations of phenomena. However, it is a challenge for teachers to support bi/multilingual learners in language-intensive science ...
By Samuel Lee, Benjamin DiFrancesco, Caitlin Fine, Katherine McNeill
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Fieldwork Fridays: Connecting Scientific Learning to Nature
Building routines around place-based learning allows students to apply their scientific learning to nature and form a connection with their local environment and the species in it over the course of a school year. Each Friday, in what are referred to...
By Katie Coppens
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Using Conferences to Give Students a Sense of Belonging
Conducting student conferences similar to those used by English Language Arts teachers to improve reading skills can give middle school science students a sense of belonging and ownership in science. Once a set of conference goals is determined, a te...
By Tasha Kirby
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In the face of the escalating climate crisis, effective climate education is imperative, not only for imparting knowledge, but also for inspiring action. This paper explores innovative strategies for teaching climate change in middle school, recogniz...
By Emily Godin, Jo'el Johanson
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Cultivating Genius for Science Contexts: Where Does the Pursuit of Joy Fit into Science Learning?
Where do Goldy Muhammad’s Cultivating Genus Pursuits fit into science learning? In this article, 5th grade teachers are adding the pursuits into a FreshWater project based science unit. Focusing on Identity and Joy, in particular, they find that sc...
By Alice Severson, Leigh Kohlmann, Emily Miller, Kevin Anderson
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Leading Effective Science Curriculum-Based Learning
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By Patrick Brown, Rodger W Bybee, Joseph Taylor
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Light, Forces, Sticks, Crates and So Much More: A Loose Parts Learning Approach to STEM
The use of loose parts can be an effective teaching method to improve and enhance student understanding of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Loose parts can inspire children to use their creativity and critical thinking skills in the classroo...
By Carla Gull, Suzanne Levenson Goldstein, Tricia Rosengarten
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Beyond Definitions: Using Hexagonal Thinking for Sensemaking
This article was written for the purpose of introducing the hexagonal thinking strategy to upper elementary teachers. The strategy, in which students make connections across the vocabulary and concepts to develop a map, has become more popular in the...
By Simone Nance
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Engaging in Socioscientific Issues by Observing Habitats in the Context of Water Use and Drought
Teaching young students to engage in socioscientific reasoning can feel like an overwhelming task due to the abstract reasoning required. Yet, Sadler et al., (2007), note the importance of helping students develop socioscientific reasoning from a you...
By Grace Brunner, Catherine Lowe, Isaiah Kent-Schneider, Jerrid Kruse
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Summertime fun with Life Science!
In this issue of Tech Talk, learn about two terrific life science apps, Rewild the World from Google Arts and Culture and Explore.org. Engage your learners in NGSS Science and Engineering practices of Developing and Using Models and Asking Questions ...
By Heather Pacheco-Guffrey