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How To Teach Vocabulary In An NGSS Classroom: Interactions In Ecosystems

January 15, 2020

If you haven’t already, be sure to check out last week’s post – Why You Need To Stop Front-Loading Vocabulary. First of all, we…

Why You Need To Stop Front-Loading Vocabulary

January 8, 2020

Just like our teaching strategies are changing as we shift to the discovery-centered, NGSS-style of instruction, we also need to change how we…

You Can’t P-D Alone: Creating A Science Community

December 18, 2019

It has nearly been 2.5 years since I have been in the classroom. I started my maternity leave with my second child in June…

Scaffolding NGSS Inquiry: Investigating The Body As A System (MS-LS1-3)

December 11, 2019

The Next Generation Science Standards are all about discovery-centered instruction. (I may have made up that term, but it’s how I think about the…

Close Read Your Evidence Statements: Cells and Cell Organelles (MS-LS1-2)

November 27, 2019

When I first started teaching, cells were one of the topics in my curriculum. My old standards read something like, “Students will know the…

Tools To Support Engaging In Argument From Evidence

November 13, 2019

How can you support students as they practice engaging in argument from evidence? Argumentation – or engaging in argument from evidence – which we’ve…

Moving Beyond C-E-R: Arguing From Evidence

November 6, 2019

How can you engage students in argumentation beyond the CER essay? I’m going to say it: C-E-R isn’t the only way to engage students…

Claim-Evidence-Reasoning In Science

October 30, 2019

How can you use the C-E-R format to engage students in arguing from evidence? In the last post, we took a look at the…

Argumentation vs Explanation With The NGSS

October 16, 2019

What is the difference between argumentation and explanation? There are a lot of misunderstandings around when it comes to the Science and Engineering Practices,…

NGSS Modeling Is Not An Art Project

September 11, 2019

What do “good” models look like in NGSS classrooms? I’m just going to say it – those pretty “edible cell” projects, the Oreo lunar…