JoinAll Teaching Strategies resources
Journal Article
Chemical mnemonic devices have been designed to aid students in understanding chemical concepts in previous years. This has been done for concepts such as oxyanions, ozonolysis, tautomerization mechanisms in organic chemistry, and writing reactions o...
By Angela L. Mahaffey
Blog Post
Coronavirus Meets ... Physics? Making a Biological Topic Fit into a Physics World
Author: Stephanie Duke, Physics Teacher and Science Department Chair at Graves County High School in Mayfield, KY...
By Korei Martin
Blog Post
What Does It Really Take to Get High School Students to Make Their Ideas Visible?
Asking high school students to reveal what they really think about what causes a natural or designed phenomenon is risky business. Risky in that it requires students to take the intellectual and social risk of sharing their thinking, which may or may...
By Angie Berk, Jen MacColl and Kristen Moorhead
Blog Post
Going Public: Revealing Student Thinking in Science by Missy Holzer
Our classrooms are dynamic places where young learners gather to figure out the natural world. How can we be sure they are all making sense of the phenomena during this process? How do we know what they are thinking?...
By Kate Falk
Blog Post
Making Students’ Thinking Visible Through Discussion by Dana McCusker and Marisa Miller
As the assistant director of science for Mastery Charter Schools I have had the pleasure of working with Dana McCusker and seeing her excellent teaching in action. As a science teacher leader, she has been at the forefront of utilizing discussion res...
By Kate Falk
Journal Article
By Byung-Yeol Park, Laura Rodriguez, and Todd Campbell
Journal Article
Arguing About a Chemical Change
Use a sample ACT writing prompt in an explore-before-explain instructional sequence to a 9th-grade physical science class to promote student learning and demonstrate that mass is conserved in a chemical reaction ...
By Patrick Brown
Journal Article
By MICHAEL GIAMELLARO, JACKSON BLACKBURN, MOLLY HONEA, AND JACOB LAPLANTE
Journal Article
Interactive science simulations (sims) have become popular tools for science educators, and research confirms that sims can improve student learning (Rutten, van Joolingen, and van der Veen 2012). Over the past 15 years, the PhET Interac- tive S...
By ARGENTA PRICE, CARL WIEMAN, AND KATHERINE PERKINS
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Atmospheric Scientist Shawn Urbanski
Atmospheric scientists study the chemical composition of the atmosphere. More specifically, they look at how atmospheric gases, liquids, and solids interact both with each other and with the earth’s surface. This helps people understand such phenom...
By Luba Vangelova
Blog Post
Achieving Equity Through Assessments
Our school requires all students to take chemistry. We teach all levels, ranging from Collaborative/Inclusive Chemistry to Honors and AP Chemistry. All of our classes have students who speak different languages, as well as students with a range of so...
By Laura Littrell and Kevin Williams
Blog Post
NGSS: Planning for Science Success for All Students
Creating an Environment for All Students to Show Their Understanding Much discussion has focused on how the NGSS (and other state standards based on the Framework and NGSS) make science accessible to all students. I believe all students can be suc...
By Hallie Booth
Blog Post
Using Senses in Nature to Experience Equity
In one of my favorite lessons, I take my kindergarten students outside to explore the schoolyard. Though I take my students outdoors throughout the year, I do this lesson at the beginning of the year because it’s an opportunity to teach students to...
By Julia Deevers-Rich
Blog Post
How PLCs Helped Move Us Toward Equitable High School Assessment Practices
My colleagues and I began using units intentionally designed for the NGSS for biology in early 2017. We started with a high-quality unit evaluated by my colleagues on the Science Peer Review Panel, and eventually used a full program from the unit’s...
By Holly Hereau
Journal Article
Middle school is a critical time for fostering girls’ interest in science, as it is during these years that girls begin to identify with their strengths and weaknesses and start to decide what kind of person to be (Allen and Eisenhart 2017; Carlo...
By Alicia Santiago, Kristin Pederson, and Rita Karl