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Problem-Based Curriculum: Engineering Units From Boeing And Teaching Channel

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Bring science and innovation into your classroom with these problem based curriculums. Boeing and Tch have partnered to develop engineering units that combine science, math, and literacy standards.

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Earth science magazine using the Earth Observatory

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EO Kids brings engaging science stories from the Earth Observatory to a younger audience. Download the latest issue of NASA's newest magazine, EO Kids, and Explore your Earth.

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Lots of resources

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The NSTA Next Generation Science Standards Hub offers information, resources, news, professional learning opportunities, and expert advice in understanding and implementing the Next Generation Science Standards - NGSS

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These very short pieces highlight ways of working on specific issues that come up during STEM teaching.

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Practice Briefs

These very short pieces highlight ways of working on specific issues that come up during STEM teaching. You can browse them below or easily flip through and browse the entire collection online. If you would like to browse or download the entire collection of tools as eye-catching PDFs, check out: http://STEMteachingtools.org/link/PDFcollection/

We're translating our collection of tools for science education into Spanish. Click here to read the STEM Teaching Tools that have been translated.
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These very short pieces highlight ways of working on specific issues that come up during STEM teaching. You can browse them below or easily flip through and browse the entire collection online. If you would like to browse or download the entire collection of tools as eye-catching PDFs, check out: http://STEMteachingtools.org/link/PDFcollection/ We're translating our collection of tools for science education into Spanish.

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Graphic Organizers

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A little explanation of each

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Resources to help incorporate engineering practices into our work

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Find free STEM lessons and activities sorted by subject area.

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Videos that provide an overview of AST.

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The ambitious teacher is someone who "works with students' ideas" over time. What would you experience in classrooms where ambitious teaching was the focus? You would see and hear:

Teachers anchoring their instruction in complex and puzzling natural events

Students engaging in multiple rounds of creating and revising scientific models, explanations and evidence-based arguments

Teachers using a variety of discourse strategies with students to get them to think deeply and to respond to each other's thinking

Students prompting each other to engage in sense-making talk during investigations and other activities

Students' ideas being represented publicly and worked on by the class

Teachers using specialized tools and routines to support students who are not willing or able to participate without help

Students speaking up about what information or experiences they need to move their thinking forward

Ambitious teaching is supported by four sets of core practices that work together throughout every unit of study. These practices start with designing units of instruction ( Planning for engagement with important science ideas); they then focus on making visible what students currently know about the science being taught ( Eliciting students' ideas); they help the teacher guide sense-making talk around investigations and other kinds of lab activities or readings ( Supporting on-going changes in thinking); and finally they help the teacher scaffold students' efforts to put everything together near the end of a unit ( Pressing for evidence-based explanations).

Throughout this website we use the term "practices" because, as in other professions like medicine, law, engineering, and architecture, there are principled ways of doing the work that can be identified, learned, and continually improved over time.The idea of ambitious teaching is now being used to support the development of a common vision so that teaching and learning can improve. We're not there yet, this is just the beginning of that journey. Below we share more specifics about each practice and provide video examples of each.

There is a lot on this website to explore. We have recommended Pathways for navigating these resources that are a specialized if you are a teacher, a teacher group, a teacher educator, or a PD provider.

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The ambitious teacher is someone who "works with students' ideas" over time. What would you experience in classrooms where ambitious teaching was the focus?

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Examples of work in action.

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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.

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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.

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Examples of puzzling phenomena.

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This site is a curated collection of science phenomena for the NGSS, along with phenomenon based learning resources and help for how to use phenomenon to drive student questions in the classroom centered around 3 dimensional teaching and learning.

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Ideas to structure and increase student discussion.

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Some tips on viewing our lesson study videos.