Below you can choose from a series of videos that demonstrate ambitious teaching. If you have not yet viewed the Orientation Series, we urge you to do that first, before looking at others. For each of the classroom series, we’ve shot an entire unit of instruction so you can see how ambitious science teaching unfolds over time.
  • Grade

  • Subject

  • Type

Orientation to Ambitious Science Teaching

Middle School Series • Energy and phase change

High School Series • Ecosystem dynamics

Presentations on Anchoring events and Modeling

Middle School • Fungi and life processes • Legacy Series

Middle School • Force and motion • Legacy Series

High School • Physics of sound • Legacy Series

High School • Gas Laws • Legacy Series

Teacher Education • Ecosystems & Climate change

Foothold Practices

Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles for improving instruction

Professional learning series

Elementary Series

Teacher Education • Gas Laws [under construction]