Teaching Strategies Archives

What is the biggest change you need to make to become an NGSS teacher? The biggest transformation you need to make when adopting the NGSS is NOT to your content. It’s to your .

Life Science, Teaching Strategies

Using Photosynthesis To Understand Systems: Exploring Processes, Inputs, and Outputs

May 1, 2019

One of the NGSS Crosscutting Concepts that has so many ties across the disciplines is the idea of Systems and System Models. At the middle and high school levels, one of our goals is .

Life Science, Science & Engineering Practices, Teaching Strategies

Exploring Interactions In Ecosystems: A Discovery Card Set

April 24, 2019

Cards! We are back to cards. If you’re a follower of this blog, you’ve heard about them before… because like I said, I love them! A quick review — cards can be used in so many .

Science & Engineering Practices, Teaching Strategies

Embracing The Talk: Transform Classroom Chatter Into Productive Discussions

April 17, 2019

Whether we always like it or not, our students are going to talk. And honestly, they should be! Adolescents are social creatures. When we attempt to stifle that natural developmental .

Earth Science, Science & Engineering Practices, Teaching Strategies

Using Data To Discover Our Earth Has Layers: Graphing Seismic Waves

April 10, 2019

If you haven’t noticed, I am big on using the Science and Engineering Practice of Analyzing and Interpreting Data. It is definitely one of the practices I gravitate toward, and I find .

Life Science, Teaching Strategies

Using Real World Situations To Promote Science Talk: Biotic and Abiotic Factors In Ecosystems Cards

April 3, 2019

Stations and cards. Cards and stations. These, I admit, are two of my favorite things. I love using cards — whether for sorting, to make observations, or as discussion starters .

Earth Science, Science & Engineering Practices, Teaching Strategies

Maps Can Be Models, Too: Exploring Plate Tectonics

March 27, 2019

Modeling is one of the most misunderstood of the Next Generation Science Standard’s Science and Engineering Practices. Don’t think so? Consider how many times you have seen, done, or .

Teaching Strategies

Teach The NGSS: Adopting NGSS Instructional Strategies

Using Photosynthesis To Understand Systems: Exploring Processes, Inputs, and Outputs

Exploring Interactions In Ecosystems: A Discovery Card Set

Embracing The Talk: Transform Classroom Chatter Into Productive Discussions

Using Data To Discover Our Earth Has Layers: Graphing Seismic Waves

Using Real World Situations To Promote Science Talk: Biotic and Abiotic Factors In Ecosystems Cards

Maps Can Be Models, Too: Exploring Plate Tectonics