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.
Using Science Theater as a format for student explanations.
This case study describes how a school district intentionally designed PL to support teachers in integrating translanguaging and multimodal representations when eliciting students’ ideas.
In this resource, we feature three stories about instructional coaching to show a variety of ways educators support the professional learning for ambitious and equitable teaching and learning.
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