student relationships

How can you support students as they practice engaging in argument from evidence? Argumentation – or engaging in argument from evidence – which we’ve been focusing the last .

NGSS, Science & Engineering Practices

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 in argument from evidence. In fact, it probably isn’t .

NGSS, Science & Engineering Practices

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 difference between arguments and explanations. Since Engaging In .

NGSS, Science & Engineering Practices

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, and the concept of .

Teaching Strategies

NGSS Support Stations: Better Than Sliced Bread

October 2, 2019

Support Stations Can Foster Student Independence and Reduce Frustration! NGSS-style instruction can be full of challenges unique to this inquiry or discovery-oriented approach. One .

Teaching Strategies

Group Work Roles That Really Work

September 25, 2019

Using Group Work Roles To Actually Enhance Student Learning Group work is a HUGE part of NGSS classrooms. Collaboration should be occurring daily – from the puzzling it out to .

Teacher Organization, Teaching Strategies

A Lesson From Lyla: The Benefit Of the Doubt

September 18, 2019

How Giving The “Benefit Of The Doubt” Can Save Your Classroom Relationships When my daughter was just about two years old, we visited a local juice place for a .

Tools To Support Engaging In Argument From Evidence

Moving Beyond C-E-R: Arguing From Evidence

Claim-Evidence-Reasoning In Science

Argumentation vs Explanation With The NGSS

NGSS Support Stations: Better Than Sliced Bread

Group Work Roles That Really Work

A Lesson From Lyla: The Benefit Of the Doubt