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On this webpage, you find what we call AST Unit Starter Bundles. As the name suggests, these materials should give…
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In this 2nd grade unit, students construct their explanations about a puzzling and historical phenomenon: Why did a town next… -
Print-and-stick labels to easily locate and view video examples from the AST website while you read the AST Book -
Get your feet wet (pun intended) with NGSS by engaging early elementary students in a 5-lesson sequence exploring where puddles… -
Several groups of fifth-graders share their thinking about a 1000-year-old artifact
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Purposefully selecting and sequencing how models are shared. -
The co-development of students’ scientific arguments and models. -
Several examples of sixth-grade students interacting with each other’s reasoning as they work to make sense of how sound travels. -
This resource includes 8 stories from teachers in a PLC in California, which met monthly to consider how to incorporate…
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Includes links to complete 138 page unit guide as well as folders of downloadable and editable documents
Ambitious Teaching—An overview
In this video we illustrate what Ambitious Teaching looks like in classrooms ranging from high school to kindergarten. The practices were developed through collaborations between teachers and researchers, and they are continually evolving as we learn more about how they work with young learners. There are several themes that you’ll see in all examples, such as a focus on puzzling and complex phenomena, opportunities to make sense through talk, making thinking visible, attending to who is participating, using various forms of scaffolding and tools, and much more.
This site is primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Award #1907471 and #1315995
This site is primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Award #1907471 and #1315995
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