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.
Tips for co-creating “gotta have” checklists with students
Several examples of sixth-grade students interacting with each other’s reasoning as they work to make sense of how sound travels.
Listen to Debbie Diaz describe her journey toward science, from being a student shut out from science, to a teacher who believed in her students, and now to becoming a science curriculum specialist for Seattle Public Schools.
This site is primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Award #1907471 and #1315995