Teacher K-12
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“Ambitious Science Teaching is the mortar that holds all the bricks together, and the bricks are often handed to you by your district.”
“I’m glad you didn’t give me three steps because that would be a lie. It’s not that easy. And so instead, you gave me a complex idea about how to do this in my classroom and examples that don’t erase the complexity.”
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This video shows K-2 students working on and with their own evolving models of puzzling phenomena.
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Representing thinking about sound and how a singer shatters a glass.
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Interview with Dr. Luehmann describing the JuST framework. -
Interview with Dr. Kang discussing co-designing science learning -
ConnectEd video working to broaden the knowledge bases and languages of science. -
Purposefully selecting and sequencing how models are shared. -
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Elementary / Eliciting / Planning / Pressing / Supporting / Video / Professional Learning / Teacher Educator / Teacher K-12 /Scientific modeling and argumentation in early elementary classrooms. -
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Several groups of fifth-graders share their thinking about a 1000-year-old artifact -
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Students learn about non-contact forces (gravity, magnetism) to explain the different ways a magnetic ring toy works. They use knowledge…
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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