This professional learning video explores how science investigations can expand beyond standard classroom activities with limited connections to students’ home lives. Check out different examples of home science activities, as well as resources to support your own planning and inquiry.
Taking critical and cultural perspectives on science investigations can shift whose interests are served and whose knowledge is elevated in these activities.
Learn more about self-documentation in this STEM teaching tool: How to launch STEM investigations that build on student and community interest and expertise.
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PD for elementary science teachers about critical and cultural approaches to designing for and reflecting on classroom discourse.
This video features Maestra Consuelo teaching dual language, Spanish & English, to Kindergartners in a rural farming community in Washington State. She connects science to the stories of the families and uses multiple examples and strategies of translanguaging as a way of honoring students and families knowledge, identities, and ways of being.
This tool is an example of studio professional learning (and a unit we co-designed) in which teachers shifted engineering curriculum to include meaningful connections to people, place, community, nature, and power.
This site is primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Award #1907471 and #1315995