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Reworking the Recipe: Adding Inquiry and Reflection to College Science Labs

Cookbook-style laboratories (labs), where students follow recipes and confirm known results are common, yet years of science teaching and learning research indicate they do not help college students develop the habits of mind and skills of a scientis...

By Cari Din, Martin MacInnis

Inquiry Labs Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Social-Emotional Learning in the Science Classroom

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By Patty McGinnis

Inclusion Pedagogy Social Justice Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

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

Careers NGSS Pedagogy STEM Teaching Strategies

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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

Inclusion Multicultural Multilingual Learners Teaching Strategies

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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

Earth & Space Science Labs Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

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

Inclusion Pedagogy Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Unlocking the Power of Emotional Connections: Strategies for Teaching Climate Change in Middle School

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

Climate Change Inclusion Teaching Strategies