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Engineering in the Science Classroom

Vivify Stem

It’s a big topic to tackle, but we try to provide simple strategies, recommended lessons, and more resources to get you started. Instead, they adopt a three-dimensional approach that involves students not only understanding science concepts but using those concepts to answer questions and solve problems. Credit: Houseal, A.

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An Idea for Standards-Based Grading with 3D Science Standards (Part 4 of a series)

Wisconsin Science and STEM Education

Next, I think it’s valuable to specifically determine students’ capacity for using practices and crosscutting concepts (CCCs). Students are doing this work through the practices and crosscutting concepts, which are condensed into five main categories noted across the top. . across the top.

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Teacher Professional Development Programs Integrating Science and Language with Multilingual Learners

National Science Foundation

In this blog, we describe our professional development (PD) program with elementary science teachers, which is grounded in contemporary conceptions of science learning, language learning, and science and language integration with all students, especially multilingual learners.

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Teaching Out-of-the-(Zoom) Box: Outdoor, Informal, and Appropriate Technology Education for Recruitment, Retention, and Motivation of STEM Teachers

National Science Foundation

The curriculum was structured by the integration of GLOBE protocols that supported curricula topics across disciplines that reinforced cross-cutting concepts, disciplinary core ideas, and science and engineering practices which are tenants of the Next Generation Science Standards (Schweingruber, Keller, & Quinn, 2012).

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Creating Rubrics for Performance Tasks Aligned to NGSS – Part 2

Wisconsin Science and STEM Education

I would, however, like to see practices and crosscutting concepts linked to content within a rubric, so I attempted to do that here. After completion, class sharing and discussion of those models serves to build common background knowledge about topics such as farm runoff and other pollutants affecting the lake.