Science teaching tools

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Digital Multimeter. Cytosis: A Cell Biology Game. View More. Practice Brief 53 How to avoid possible pitfalls associated with culturally responsive instruction. Practice Brief 54 How to build an equitable learning community in your science classroom. Practice Brief 57 How place-based science education strategies can support equity for students, teachers, and communities. Practice Brief 58 How can science instruction leverage and develop student interests?

Short answer: In so many different ways! Practice Brief 59 Creating science learning experiences that support learners receiving special education services. Practice Brief 61 Using science investigations to develop caring practices for social-ecological systems.

Practice Brief 62 What does subject matter integration look like in elementary instruction? Including science is key! Practice Brief 63 How to integrate the argumentation from evidence practice into engineering design projects. Practice Brief 64 Students should generate criteria and constraints for engineering design problems—not just be provided with them. Practice Brief 65 Using 3D interim assessments to support coherence, equity, and a shared understanding of learning.

Interdisciplinary literacy tools are vital means of achieving equity in STEM. CAP Writing is a tiered approach to literacy for reluctant writers. Designed to engage authors using essential questions about content, audience and purpose, users then navigate their thinking and … Continued. Phenomena: Junkyard magnet and shake flashlight. It reinforces a culture of student talk in which ideas about science are worth probing, expanding, critiquing, and revising.

This protocol has been particularly useful for teachers who … Continued. Includes links to complete page unit guide as well as folders of downloadable and editable documents. This tool helps students in small groups discuss a text. It also helps them learn how to do this more independently over time if it is used routinely.

The beginning assumption in using this tool is that you have given … Continued. Below, there are four broad types of tools that you can search for; click on any of these to learn more about the tools the planning tools were designed by us after a thorough review of the literature on teaching and learning, all the rest by our colleagues in schools : Face-to-face tools Planning tools Scaffolding tools Professional mentoring tools [this one under construction].

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All-in-one 1st grade inheritance unit. All-in-one 2nd grade Ice Cream Unit. Look for "Hype Headlines," such as Miracle of gene therapy right around the corner, and discuss with students. Start a bulletin board of examples that students find in the print media. Find examples of newspaper articles where scientific controversies are mentioned. Discuss the validity of the claim of controversy. Discuss the benefits of true scientific controversy. Have students Google a topic such as hamburger nutrition and find examples of both reliable and unreliable resources.

Ask them to explain their reasoning. Have students offer examples of circumstances in which they or a member of their family has needed to evaluate scientific claims to make a decision e.

Ask students to explain how they investigated the claims and made their decision. The section of Understanding Science that addresses the nonlinear nature of the process of science is available as a pdf, which you can use as a student reader. An effective way to use this tool would be to have students read it and discuss it at the beginning of the semester and then refer back to the document throughout the semester as students encounter examples of these concepts in context.