Trouble Keeping Students Organized During Virtual or Hybrid Learning? It's easy to lose that "storyline feel" of your NGSS units when you're teaching virtually or with a hybrid schedule, just…
How can you use tech tools to engage students with phenomena in your virtual classroom? Science isn't about checking standards off the list or forcing students to memorize content they'll…
Have you considered using gamification to improve your students' experience this year? Before students can learn, they need to engage. Gamification is one strategy to support establishing relationship and increase…
Engaging in Argument from Evidence is one of the Science and Engineering Practices we should be embedding into our regular instruction as a way for students to develop a strong…
The term “interactive science notebooks” is most likely not entirely foreign to you. It’s been around for years now, and I think for most teachers, it conjures up images of…
When I first started using discovery-based learning and the NGSS, my students struggled. They were used to traditional science classrooms where they were told information, took notes and completed worksheets,…
How do you teach discovery-style when students have NEVER been exposed to this type of learning in the past? That’s a huge concern I hear from the teachers I work…
I may have mentioned I have a penchant for wanting to DIY things. The idea always sounds good in theory. Chocolate-covered Oreos are pretty expensive for that little box, why…
We can all agree this emergency remote learning situation isn't ideal. It's not ideal in a typical science classroom, and it certainly is making three dimensional, NGSS-aligned instruction particularly challenging.…
One of the challenges of teaching science at the middle and high school level is the increasingly abstract nature of the content. Students are diving into much smaller and…