Science
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Bringing Abstract Concepts to Life in Science Classes
Acting out skits that provide real-world contexts can help students engage with and understand complicated science content.Exploring Before Explaining Sparks Learning
New elementary science teachers can build student engagement and enhance learning by using the explore-before-explain approach.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Real, Fake, or Deepfake? This Lesson Helps Students Decide
Students examine videos and online information to investigate what is real and what is not in this engaging lesson.110.4kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Building Students’ Scientific Skills Through Observation
Feathers provide students the opportunity to explore how the particular form of an object impacts its function.3.1kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.A First-Week Routine That Gets Middle School Students Thinking Like Scientists
Here’s a day-by-day plan for guiding your students to start the year by asking questions. Just resist the urge to answer them.7.3kYour content has been saved!
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Why Students Should Write in All Subjects
Writing improves learning by consolidating information in long-term memory, researchers explain. Plus, five engaging writing activities to use in all subjects.378.3kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Designing Science Inquiry: Claim + Evidence + Reasoning = Explanation
The Claim, Evidence, Reasoning framework is a scaffolded way to teach the scientific method.595.6kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Why Kids Should Nature Journal at All Grade Levels
A 2023 review makes a strong case that hands-on observation of natural phenomena has both academic and psychological benefits.Teaching the Concept of Equity Through Gardening
Plants can illustrate how different people need different things to be nourished—and how equality and equity differ.192.3kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Moving Beyond Traditional Lab Reports in High School
A teacher who wanted to shift from assessing compliance to assessing students’ thinking shares the tweaks she made in her assignments.Helping Students Look Beyond Grades With Visual Rubrics
When students see their content mastery mapped out, they’re more likely to understand their proficiency—and take ownership of their progress.Guiding Elementary Students to Pose Relevant Questions in Science Class
Students may generate questions that are off-topic or not scientifically useful if given too much latitude in inquiry-based learning, so putting up some guardrails is necessary.Reducing Homework by Ensuring That More of the Learning Happens in Class
For a high school physics teacher, assigning less homework meant comprehensively revamping assessments and how each class session was set up.10kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.4 Ways to Encourage Great Questions in the Science Classroom
Here’s how a middle school teacher guides students to proactively ask and answer questions like ‘why does that happen?’2kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Encouraging Collaboration With a Scientists Circle
This routine creates an equitable structure for sharing out ideas, questions, or evidence in science class—and helps ensure every student takes part.57.6kYour content has been saved!
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