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This website includes specialized resources tailored to your role as a teacher, professional learning provider, or teacher educator. There are tools, videos, and modules for you to explore. Please adapt these resources for your context and share your stories.
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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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Unpacking topics like “earthquakes,” “solubility,” or “cellular respiration” begins with identifying all the big ideas mentioned in the Next Generation… -
Throughout this unit, students investigate the properties of ice cream as a solid and liquid to help address standards about… -
Students investigate a phenomenon where a kitten, “Creamsicle”, with cream fur is born to orange fur parents. Readings and activities… -
The practices of scientific argumentation and modeling involve using evidence and reasoning to create and evaluate claims about how or… -
Unit guide for STC Land & Water Kit revised to meet Next Generation Science Standards. It reframes the kit around… -
Blog /If you are interested in changing your classroom discourse, anchoring your instructional units in puzzling phenomena, or engaging students in… -
In this 2nd grade unit, students construct their explanations about a puzzling and historical phenomenon: Why did a town next… -
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Tanya Katovich, a Nationally Board Certified teacher leader from Illinois, demonstrates a unit-planning routine known as the “whiteboard activity” and… -
limate science is inherently interdisciplinary and complex. Physical processes at a molecular level cascade upward to drive global-scale events. Decisions… -
Get your feet wet (pun intended) with NGSS by engaging early elementary students in a 5-lesson sequence exploring where puddles… -
Students use instruments to make different kinds of sounds. They create a variety of instruments from recycled parts and different…
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• Explanatory Element Prompts • Table Tent • Poster • PPT of Explanatory Element Menu his set of resources (described…
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Sima Faik, Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy; Alec Shrode, Chicago Academy High School; In collaboration with Michael Tompkins and Evelyn… -
This high school unit was developed by Lauren Petersen who teaches in the Lake Washington School District in Washington State.…
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.
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“What the Ambitious Science Teaching did was it allowed us to get at why is this really important — for students, for learning itself, for the community. And then it gave some really nice examples of how it’s implemented, [which] gave folks the knowledge that they needed to then take it back and one, make it happen in their classroom, or two, to support their own colleagues in fostering growth.”
– Teacher Educator
Recent AST-related projects
Learn about recent projects funded by the National Science Foundation and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
K-2 Science & Math Learning Labs
See K-2 AST/Teaching Channel classroom videos.
Developing NGSS Networked Improvement Communities
Learn more about developing partnerships with school districts.
Working Towards Justice-Centered, Multilingual Science and Literacy Pedagogies
Learn more about Promoting Asset-based Science Teaching for Emergent Language Learners.
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