Simulations To Engage: Infectious Disease and Body Systems (MS-LS1-3)
Simulations are a great way to engage your students in science content that they cannot otherwise access — whether it’s on a scale too large or too long, or simply…
Questioning To Support Discovery Through Exploration
How can you help students make meaning during exploration? Questioning! In an NGSS classroom, the goal is for students to discover the content though exploration. (If you’re not sure what…
Teaching Climate Change With Web Resources
While it can be a touchy subject in some schools, I truly believe climate change is an important issue we should be teaching our students. It’s pretty much the biggest…
Formative Assessments For NGSS Science Classrooms
Formative assessments are a vital part of any instructional model, and the 5E Model is no different. Formative Assessment is... ... any sort of activity in which the intent is…
Providing Opportunities For Practice: Elaborating On Student Learning
If you’ve been following along, we are diving into designing instructional sequences (aka lesson plans) using the 5E Model. Engage, Explore, Explain, and now ELABORATE! Another misunderstood phase of the 5E Model,…
What Does Direct Instruction Look Like With The NGSS?
If you’ve been following along, we are diving into designing instructional sequences (aka lesson plans) using the 5E Model. Engage, Explore, and now EXPLAIN. And let me say, if you…
Tangible Explore Experiences for the NGSS Classroom
Over the last few weeks, we have looked at the 5E Model and how to use it to design your NGSS-aligned instructional sequences. We first took a bird’s view of…
Engage Your Students In Science Discovery
Last week, we took a broad overview of NGSS-aligned instruction using the 5E Model. This week, we are going to take a deep dive into the first two stages of…
Creating “Ah Ha!” Moments with the 5E Model
Last time, we discussed why we should be using the 5E Model in our NGSS classrooms. Shifting our instruction is vital to truly shifting our curriculum to the NGSS, and…
NGSS Instruction for Conceptual Understanding
When we are teaching, we obviously want our students to be learning. But teaching and learning are not the same things, and one thing (teaching) does not always result in…