Modeling in the Early Years – Overview | Ambitious Science Teaching

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As shown here, modeling centrally elicits and builds on students’ existing funds of knowledge and experiences about the world. It also highlights how scientific understandings change as students revise their models over time, and it invites multiple means of expression to support student communication and collaboration.

Trees, Seasons & Shining a light on Farming Communities: Kinder Bilingüe

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.

Meaningful Connections to People, Place, Community, Nature, and Power: Studio Learning

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.

¿Qué soluciones podemos crear para enfrentar la escasez de agua en un mundo cada vez más seco?: Aprender en un estudio bilingüe

This tool features a unit we designed on water scarcity and a studio professional learning model in a 5th grade dual-language classroom.

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