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Continue reading →: Video: How to See Germs Spread
This video by Mark Rober (Check out some of Mark’s other science videos) is nicely done and could be pushed out to students as part of some online science learning. There are lots of Science & Engineering Practices and Crosscutting Concepts at work here too if you wanted to get…
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Continue reading →: Resources for Supporting Science Learning During School Closures
Our friends at STEM Teaching Tools have organized some resources from Council of School Science Supervisors (CSSS) to support families with science learning while practicing social distancing at home. Some of these could be great for use in school districts as reminders of best practices and others contain ready-made resources…
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Continue reading →: Science in the City by Bryan A. Brown
Science in the City: Culturally Relevant STEM Education by Bryan A. Brown of Stanford University is a true gift to the science education community. I’ve been using a YouTube video of Dr. Brown discussing science, language and identity for several years in workshops and with my pre-service science teachers (see…
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Continue reading →: Puget Sound Region Only: High School Climate Science Workshop Series
My colleague, Tom Hathorn, and I are facilitating a workshop series on Climate Science for High School Science Teachers in the Puget Sound Region of Washington State. The series starts October 23rd and we still have a few seats left- so register soon at the link below if you’re interested…
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Continue reading →: Developing a State Assessment System: Nebraska’s Story
The state of Nebraska is on a journey to develop a comprehensive state science assessment system that not only includes a state-wide summative assessment system (grades 5, 8, & 11) for science but also: Curriculum Embedded Science Tasks (K-12) Science Task Library (K-12) Monitoring Tasks (Grades 3, 4,…
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Continue reading →: A Framework to Evaluate Cognitive Complexity in Science Assessments by Achieve
Achieve just released A Framework to Evaluate Cognitive Complexity in Science Assessments. This short document features a rubric for rating scenarios and the 3 Dimensions in assessment items and item sets. The focus is on cognitive complexity that supports students sense-making during the assessment. Below is a table showing the…
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Continue reading →: Book: Thing Explainer- Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Monroe
File this one under “fun” but I’m sure most science educators can find several uses for this book with students. I have owned Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Monroe (Creator of xkcd) for a couple of years. I keep it in my office and every so…
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Continue reading →: Great Picture Book: Cece Loves Science
OVERVIEW: My daughter Cece is 9 years old and last fall we were walking through a Barnes & Noble (yes they still have those!) and we saw a display for a picture book titled Cece Loves Science. My daughter saw the display and shouted, “I DO love science!” I’ve been…
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Continue reading →: inquiryHub (iHub) Biology: Free Full Year HS NGSS Bio Units
The inquiryHub (iHub) biology landing page provides a full-year high school life science course that is 3 Dimensional and built for the Next Generation Science Standards. These materials were developed by teachers from Denver Public Schools collaborating with the University of Colorado Boulder and Northwestern University. This team designed three units…
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Continue reading →: Claim, Evidence, & Reasoning (CER) Resources Part 1
For the past several years I have been supporting pre-service and inservice teachers with the use of the Claim, Evidence and Reasoning (CER) framework for scaffolding students’ writing and talking about scientific explanations and arguments. This framework provides a common language for discussing the elements of powerful explanations and arguments.…
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