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Dimensons of NGSS
- For teachers, coaches, and leaders
This one-page resource outlines eight dimensions of science education that promote equitable engagement of all learners.
Tips & Tricks for Interactive Video Sessions
- For teachers, coaches, and leaders
With at-home learning, students are no longer captive audiences in a place that is highly focused on learning.
Distance Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic
- For teachers, coaches, and leaders
Explore five principles for educators to consider as they make the shift to digital classrooms in response to COVID related school closures.
Converting In-Person Activities to Distance Learning Activities
- For teachers, coaches, and leaders
This tip sheet highlights a few key ways to transition common in-person activities to a digital setting.
Supporting Children During Covid-19
- For teachers, coaches, and leaders
This tipsheet highlights simple things caregivers can do to ensure children come through this experience happy, healthy, and fully enriched.
Electric Circuits Visual Vocabulary Deck
- For teachers and coaches
These printable cards can be used to support students’ understanding of electric circuits.
Dimensions of Science Education
- For teachers, coaches, and leaders
By engaging in learning this way, students develop skills in the practices of science and engineering, adopt the habits of thinking of scientists and engineers, and gain science and engineering knowledge.
Properties of Next Generation Science Education
- For teachers, coaches, and leaders
This resource highlights just three properties of Next Generation Science Education — multidimensional, phenomenon-based, and equitable.
One Difference! Game
- For teachers and coaches
This game is a fun introduction to one of the key qualities of good experiments.
Earth’s Orbit
- For teachers and coaches
This diagram provides a birds-eye view of Earth’s orbit and shows the effect of the planet’s tilt at different times of the year.
Environmental Diagrams
- For teachers and coaches
This set of three environment diagrams can be used to help situate science learning for a wide range of concepts — from studying organisms across environments to exploring the interactions between Earth’s systems.
Blood Cell Lineage and Differentiation Diagrams
- For teachers and coaches
This set of handouts provides an overview of the Human Blood Cell lineage and also includes a supporting handout that shows how differentiation occurs in blood cells.
Types of Models
- For teachers and coaches
The practice of modeling is critical to the work of scientists, but all models have benefits and limitations.
Science Quotes
- For teachers and coaches
This PDF contains 2 color posters with quotes from Albert Einstein and Marie Curie.
Habits of Systems Thinking
- For teachers, coaches, and leaders
This reference provides 5 helpful things to keep in mind when investigating a system.
MSS Facilitation Principles
- For teachers, coaches, and leaders
This PDF contains one blackline master of the MSS Facilitation Principles chart that can be enlarged to poster size.
Circuitry Inside a Bulb
- For teachers, coaches, and leaders
This handy diagram labels the parts of a bulb and shows the internal circuitry.
Phenomena-Based Learning
- For teachers, coaches, and leaders
This document describes the purpose of using phenomena as a tool for engaging students, and outlines four simple steps to help you incorporate more phenomena into your instruction.
Turtle’s Journey Sample Student Responses for grades 6–8
- For teachers and coaches
The “Turtle’s Journey” task allows students to grapple with making sense of distance-time graphs.
Massive Air Sample Student Responses for grades 6–8
- For teachers and coaches
The “Massive Air” task promotes student thinking around the concept of gases having mass.
Energy for Hawks Sample Student Responses for grades 6–8
- For teachers and coaches
The “Energy for Hawks” task connects the concepts of energy and ecosystems, and requires students to think about how organisms get the energy they need to survive.
Food Mind Map Task Blank for grades 5–8
- For teachers and coaches
The “Food Mind Map” task requires students to puzzle through their understanding of what food is by creating a mind map of linking terms.
Placing Hydrogen Task Blank for grades 9–12
- For teachers & coaches
The “Placing Hydrogen” task requires students to consider what they know about atomic structure and the organization of the periodic table of elements.
Genetically Speaking Task Blank for grades 5–8
- For teachers & coaches
The “Genetically Speaking” task requires students to read and respond to other students’ ideas about the relationship between genes, chromosomes, and traits.
Talking to the Text Bookmark
- For teachers
Developed by the Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) at WestEd, these bookmarks are a great tool for students of grades K–12 to use in any subject.
Productive Science Talk Handout
- For teachers, coaches, and leaders
This handout helps situate the roles of speakers and listeners when engaged in this type of discourse.
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) handout
- For teachers, coaches, and leaders
This handout supports the CER format by providing clear definitions of each term.
Social Emotional Learning within Science Education
- For teachers, coaches, and leaders
This one-page resource highlights how social emotional learning — an essential part of growing up and schooling — can be a key component to science education.
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