Science

2018 American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition; New Orleans, LA

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Event Date:

Sun, 03/18/2018 - 12:00am to Thu, 03/22/2018 - 12:00pm

Sponsoring Organization:

American Chemical Society (ACS)

To learn more, visit https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/meetings/national-meeting.html.

DRK-12 Presenters:

Ellen Yezierski, Dillon Frank, Nicholas Spurgus, and Justin Pratt, Miami University (Project: Further Development and Testing of the Target Inquiry Model for Middle and High School Science Teacher Professional Development (Collaborative Research: Yezierski))

Event Type:

Conference

Discipline / Topic:

Chemistry

Science

Writing a Scientific Explanation

Submitted by cadre-admin on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 10:24am

Earth Science

Science

Professional Development

Standards

American Museum of Natural History. (2018). Writing a Scientific Explanation. Retrieved from https://www.amnh.org/explore/curriculum-collections/integrating-literacy....

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https://www.amnh.org/explore/curriculum-collections/integrating-literacy-strateg...

Lead Organization(s):

American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)

Year:

2018

Short Description:

This resource provides access to a classroom video of a lesson from the project's middle school ecosystems unit, and the related student scaffold and scoring rubric.

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Disruptions in Ecosystems

Submitted by cadre-admin on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 10:20am

Earth Science

Science

Professional Development

Standards

American Museum of Natural History. (2018). Middle School: Disruptions in Ecosystems. Retrieved from https://www.nextgenscience.org/resources/middle-school-disruptions-ecosy...

Access Link:

https://www.nextgenscience.org/resources/middle-school-disruptions-ecosystems

Lead Organization(s):

American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)

Year:

2018

Short Description:

This resource provides access to the entire middle school ecosystems unit, along with the EQuIP review.

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Classroom Videos from Disruptions in Ecosystems Unit

Submitted by cadre-admin on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 10:17am

Earth Science

Science

Professional Development

Standards

Kastel, D. (2017, August 25). Classroom videos from disruptions in ecosystems unit [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/2017/08/25/ngss-from-theory-to-prac...

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https://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/2017/08/25/ngss-from-theory-to-practice/

Lead Organization(s):

American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)

Year:

2017

Short Description:

This blog post includes the link to 4 videos of teachers using the project's middle school ecosystems unit.

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Science as experience, exploration, and experiments: elementary teachers’ notions of ‘doing science’

Submitted by cadre-admin on Tue, 02/27/2018 - 1:59am

Science

Professional Development

Much of the literature on science teaching suggests that elementary teachers lack relevant prior experiences with science. This study begins to reframe the deficit approach to research in science

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Lead Organization(s):

West Virginia University Research Corporation

Year:

2017

Short Description:

This study begins to reframe the deficit approach to research in science teaching by privileging the experiences elementary teachers have had with science – both in and out of schools – throughout their lives. This work demonstrates that teachers’ storied lives are important for educational researchers and teacher educators, as they reveal elements of teaching knowledge that may be productive and resourceful for refining teachers’ science practice.

File:

Murphy Luna & Bernstein 2017.pdf

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Using a video club design to promote teacher attention to students' ideas in science

Submitted by cadre-admin on Tue, 02/27/2018 - 1:54am

Science

Pedagogy

Professional Development

Video

Science education stakeholders worldwide are engaged in efforts to support teachers' noticing and making sense of students' thinking in science. Here we introduce the design of a science teaching video club and present a study of its implementation. The current design extends prior research on video clubs as a form of professional development for supporting mathematics teachers. Results indicate that the current design supported science teachers in noticing and discussing students' thinking in sustained and meaningful ways.

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Lead Organization(s):

West Virginia University Research Corporation

Year:

2017

Short Description:

In this article, authors introduce the design of a science teaching video club and present a study of its implementation.

File:

Luna & Sherin 2017.pdf

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Teachers’ Noticing of Students’ Thinking in Science Through Classroom Artifacts: In What Ways Are Science and Engineering Practices Evident?

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Science

Building on the work of teacher noticing, this study investigated teachers’ noticing of students’ thinking evident in artifacts from their science teaching context. Prior work on teachers’ noticing in

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Lead Organization(s):

West Virginia University Research Corporation

Year:

2018

Short Description:

Building on the work of teacher noticing, this study investigated teachers’ noticing of students’ thinking evident in artifacts from their science teaching context.

File:

Luna Selmer & Rye 2018.pdf

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Methods and Strategies: What’s the Story?

Submitted by cadre-admin on Mon, 02/26/2018 - 7:58am

Science

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses using the 5E learning cycle to create coherent storylines.

Lipsitz, K., Cisterna, D., & Hanuscin, D. (2017). The 5E Learning Cycle: What’s the story? Science and Children, 55(4), 76–80.

Access Link:

http://common.nsta.org/resource/?id=10.2505/4/sc17_055_04_76

Lead Organization(s):

University of Missouri

Year:

2017

Short Description:

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching.

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Ambitious Science Teaching

Submitted by cadre-admin on Fri, 02/23/2018 - 10:22pm

Science

Teacher Practice

Ambitious Science Teaching outlines a powerful framework for science teaching to ensure that instruction is rigorous and equitable for students from all backgrounds. The practices presented in the book are being used in schools and districts that seek to improve science teaching at scale, and a wide range of science subjects and grade levels are represented.

Access Link:

http://hepg.org/hep-home/books/ambitious-science-teaching

Lead Organization(s):

Teaching Channel

Year:

2018

Short Description:

Ambitious Science Teaching outlines a powerful framework for science teaching to ensure that instruction is rigorous and equitable for students from all backgrounds. The practices presented in the book are being used in schools and districts that seek to improve science teaching at scale, and a wide range of science subjects and grade levels are represented.