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Continue reading →: Moving Forward: State Engagement with the Next Generation Science Standards
The Hunt Institute recently released a report titled: Moving Forward- State Engagement with the Next Generation Science Standards. The report features cases studies from 4 states- Rhode Island, California, North Carolina, and Minnesota. All 4 states were Lead Partner States in the NGSS development, however, each state has a different story regarding…
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Continue reading →: New Report: Literacy for Science- Exploring the Intersection of the NGSS and CCSS ELA
The National Academies Press just recently released a new report titled- Literacy for Science: Exploring the Intersection of the Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core for ELA Standards. Like other publications from the National Academies, you can read the report FREE online in your browser or download a PDF for…
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Continue reading →: Rosie Revere Engineer: Teaching Engineering with a Picture Book
As a former elementary teacher, I love to use picture books to teach students. Now I use picture books for teaching pre-service and in-service K-12 teachers about science and engineering. My new favorite picture book for teaching engineering is Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty. This book makes a perfect…
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Continue reading →: Using the Ketchup Cap in Engineering Professional Development
The story of Tyler Richards and Jonathan Thompson and their invention of a new ketchup bottle cap has gone viral in engineering education this spring. I wanted to share how I’ve been using this story in professional development with K-12 teachers. PBS has a short blog post that is the perfect…
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Continue reading →: Why Truly Innovative Science Demands a Leap into the Unknown
A TED Talk where Uri Alon discusses topics that connect to the nature of science, the “scientific method”, and science & engineering practices. Also wonderful lessons about collaboration, communication, persistence and failure. How might you use this video with K-12 students, college students, or in professional development with science teachers?
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Continue reading →: Tinkering Fundamentals: FREE Online Course
Are you looking for some engaging professional learning for the summer? The Exploratorium is offering a FREE 6 week online course titled: Tinkering Fundamentals: A Constructionist Approach to STEM Learning. This course introduces educators to the practices of tinkering and making… which should directly impact our understanding of engineering and STEM…
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Continue reading →: Selecting and Designing Materials Aligned to NGSS
Joe Krajcik, Professor of Science Education and Director for the CREATE for STEM Institute at Michigan State University has written a blog post titled- How to Select and Design Materials that Align to the Next Generation Science Standards In this post, Joe discusses the recently released EQuIP Rubric for Lessons and Units:…
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Continue reading →: Accountable Talk Sourcebook
The Accountable Talk Sourcebook: For Classroom Conversation that Works is a FREE resource from the Institute for Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. This resource provides tools, strategies, norms, and research to support educators looking to increase the level of productive discourse in any content area. We know that productive student science talk is…
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Continue reading →: NGSS Cheat Sheet and Placemat
As we begin to design and deliver professional development on the Next Generation Science Standards I’m hoping that we will be able to share tools and resources. I’ve accumulated several tools from lots of smart folks and will be posting some in the coming weeks. A couple of my favorites…
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Continue reading →: What Does Sound Look Like? Video
The Next Generation Science Standards have a clear and intentional focus on waves as a disciplinary core idea K-12. This is content that may be new for some of us and may be lacking in our science instructional materials. As we start to cobble together resources here is an interesting…
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