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The Argumentation Toolkit – Helping teachers understand and teach scientific argumentation

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Quality Examples of Science Lessons and Units | Next Generation Science Standards

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The Wonder of Science website aggregates the work of Paul Andersen around the NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards)

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The Wonder of Science was created to support the next generation of science teachers. All of the resources are licensed under Creative Commons licensing.

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San Diego Phenomena | Fleet Science Center - San Diego, CA

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

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The skill of question asking is far too rarely deliberately taught in school. In fact, students typically hit their question-asking peak around the age of 4 and their question asking dramatically declines shortly after they enter the classroom.
The Right Question Institute (RQI) has worked with and learned from educators to develop a teaching strategy that provides a simple, yet powerful method for students to learn to ask their own questions and, in the process, do divergent, convergent and metacognitive thinking.

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Percentage of Children Asking Questions - Right Question Institute

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The skill of question asking is far too rarely deliberately taught in school. In fact, students typically hit their question-asking peak around the age of 4 and their question asking dramatically declines shortly after they enter the classroom.

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Facilitate Student Curiosity and Engagement

The skill of question asking is far too rarely deliberately taught in school. We have worked with and learned from educators to develop a teaching strategy that provides a simple yet powerful way to teach students how to formulate, work with, and use their own questions.

This video shows a 12th-grade humanities teacher, Ling-Se Chesnakas, using the QFT with her class in Boston. Ling-Se used the QFT to prepare students for a Socratic seminar and help them with a writing assignment about the book "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," by Junot Diaz.

The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) is a strategy that 250,000 educators worldwide are using to teach students how to formulate...

[The QFT] makes me feel like I'm in control of my learning.

This is the first time I have written to any source of one of my teaching methods to thank them for providing me with such a powerful book to unlock the learning process... I have been teaching since 1977. I have studied techniques and pedagogy. In all that time, I have never found anything that was so profoundly influential in changing how students learn. Not only did it immediately engage the students in their own learning, it stayed with them throughout a 17-week semester...

When you ask a question, it can spark more questions.

Today I learned how to alter and improve my research question. This has already helped my research question become more manageable and fit within the requirement of the project better. This helped me zero in and pinpoint which section of my topic I am truly interested in.

Rothstein and Santana have put together a straightforward and accessible book about what seems like a simple idea - get kids to ask questions, questions they care about. Don't be deceived. It's one thing to get kids or anyone to ask a question or two; it's another to get them take possession of the questions, to recognize that learning is asking questions and not just memorizing stuff. The art of making questions, nearly lost, is thankfully revived in [Make Just One Change].

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Find your path through the Next Generation Science Standards with help from the Concord Consortium.

1. Start in the center with a core idea. What do you teach?

2. Add a science and engineering practice-or two!

3. Add a crosscutting concept.

4. You've created one path through the NGSS. Use the Concord Consortium resources available for that path below.

Practices

Asking Questions
Defining Problems

Using Models

Conducting
Investigations

Analyzing
Data

Using Mathematics &
Computational Thinking

Constructing Explanations
Designing Solutions

Arguing from
Evidence

Communicating
Information

Core Ideas
What do you teach?

Life
Sciences

Engineering &
Technology

Earth & Space
Sciences

Physical
Sciences

Crosscutting Concepts

Patterns

Causation

Scale

Systems

Energy

Structure & Function

Stability & Change

Start by selecting a Core Idea.

About the Next Generation Science Standards

You can also download our
NGSS "fortune tellers" (PDF) for another fun way to find resources available for different paths.

The Next Generation Science Standards provide a framework and examples for STEM learning. Grounded in the National Academy of Science's thoughtful Framework for K-12 Science Education, these new K-12 science standards have been developed to provide students an internationally benchmarked science education, and signify a new direction for STEM education. They elevate the importance of Earth science, present engineering education as coequal with science education for the first time and emphasize a key set of Scientific and Engineering Practices and Crosscutting Concepts that should buttress all learning in these disciplines.

The NGSS hold the potential for helping focus the current national concern for improving STEM education. They will undoubtedly help bring clarity and unity to the patchwork of state standards developed throughout the standards movement in the past decades. As this occurs, innovative educational technology will be a critical component in this STEM education revolution.

The Concord Consortium and the NGSS

Our NGSS Pathfinder provides numerous examples of how the NGSS-and especially its Practices and Crosscutting Concepts-are central to our work in STEM education. Over nearly two decades, we've been demonstrating how technology can make complex concepts more approachable, underscore important crosscutting ideas and engage students in the practices of science and engineering.

Using computational models and probe-based activities, elementary students can watch biological evolution, middle school students can analyze and interpret data to understand the genetic basis of inheritance and high school and college students can argue from evidence in discussing interactions between molecules. With these technology-supported activities, students can engage in doing real science as they plan and carry out investigations, use models, analyze data and design solutions. Students also gain wide experience with crosscutting concepts-from scales in space and time to energy and systems-across domains in science, math and engineering.

More about the NGSS

© Copyright 2020 The Concord Consortium. All rights reserved.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE-1044263. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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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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Science in Action: How Science Works | California Academy of Sciences

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Students reinforce their knowledge that DNA is the genetic material for all living things by modeling it using toothpicks and gumdrops that represent the four biochemicals (adenine, thiamine, guanine, and cytosine) that pair with each other in a specific pattern, making ...

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Free, K-12, NGSS standards-aligned STEM lessons and hands-on activities for teaching elementary, middle and high school science, engineering design and math. Search by concepts or specific Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) to Ignite STEM learning in K-12.

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

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Improving Science Education Through Three-Dimensional Learning

Quick Search Next Generation Science Standards

THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF SCIENCE LEARNING

Within the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), there are three distinct and equally important dimensions to learning science. These dimensions are combined to form each standard-or performance expectation-and each dimension works with the other two to help students build a cohesive understanding of science over time.

Crosscutting Concepts help students explore connections across the four domains of science, including Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science, and Engineering Design.

When these concepts, such as "cause and effect", are made explicit for students, they can help students develop a coherent and scientifically-based view of the world around them.

Science and Engineering Practices describe what scientists do to investigate the natural world and what engineers do to design and build systems. The practices better explain and extend what is meant by "inquiry" in science and the range of cognitive, social, and physical practices that it requires. Students engage in practices to build, deepen, and apply their knowledge of core ideas and crosscutting concepts.

Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs) are the key ideas in science that have broad importance within or across multiple science or engineering disciplines. These core ideas build on each other as students progress through grade levels and are grouped into the following four domains: Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science, and Engineering.

More about 3D Learning

GET TO KNOW

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are K-12 science content standards. Standards set the expectations for what students should know and be able to do. The NGSS were developed by states to improve science education for all students.

A goal for developing the NGSS was to create a set of research-based, up-to-date K-12 science standards. These standards give local educators the flexibility to design classroom learning experiences that stimulate students' interests in science and prepares them for college, careers, and citizenship.

Get to Know the Standards

IMPLEMENT

The NGSS call for a three-dimensional approach to K-12 science instruction. This represents a significant transition from previous state standards. That's why effective implementation demands a great deal of collaboration and patience among states, districts, schools, teachers, and students.

Thoughtful and coordinated approaches to implementation will enable educators to inspire future generations of scientifically literate students. That is the vision of the NGSS. This website provides a range of high-quality resources that empower educators, administrators, parents, and the general public to help bring this vision to life.

Find Tools and Resources

WHY

Science-and therefore science education-is central to the lives of all Americans.

A high-quality science education means that students will develop an in-depth understanding of content and develop key skills-communication, collaboration, inquiry, problem solving, and flexibility-that will serve them throughout their educational and professional lives.

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Teachers today face a unique challenge. The world we live in is changing so quickly that we have no way of imagining the future we're preparing our students for. Gone are the days of teaching and memorizing facts. Our always changing lives drive a need for students to be able to synthesize, apply, and innovate with information. Teachers are responsible for not only prepping our students to live in that unimaginable future society, but also empowering them to engineer it. As daunting as it seems, STEM in the elementary classroom is an excellent way to prepare students with the needed skills to innovate in the 21st century.
STEM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and math, but to limit it to those four subjects is greatly understating its potential to transform instruction.
This is why, at my school, we began talking in terms of STEM-infusion as an instructional model, as opposed to simply STEM as a subject. STEM is not solely part of our (limited) science instruction time. It's a framework for conceptually linking all content areas.

STEM-infusion is all about challenging the students to apply knowledge. This is achieved by designing a solution to a real-world problem or scenario, in which the students use the engineering design process:

Ask: Students define the question they are trying to answer during the process.

Imagine: Students brainstorm all possible solutions to the problem and defend each with research-based evidence or background knowledge.

Plan: Students pick the solution with the highest potential for success and decide what steps to take in order to produce it. (This often includes sketching or drawing a blueprint.)

Create: Students share their solution. This step can take all different forms, as you will see in some of the examples later.

Test: Students test their solution and document strengths and weaknesses.

Improve: Students discuss what parts of their product need to be improved and why, again demonstrating their understanding of the content. They then use this information to adjust or sometimes completely redesign their solution.

Communicate results: Students reflect on their learning throughout the project and defend their solutions.

In planning a STEM-infused lesson or unit, my colleagues and I have taken three different approaches:

1. Conceptual approach

With this method, the teacher looks for a cross-cutting concept that could be used to connect the skills that week from all different disciplines. From there, he or she creates a design challenge that practices that skill.

For example, I recently co-taught with a kindergarten teacher who was teaching cause and effect as her "text skill" in the reading series that week. The math skill was the understanding that taking a number apart makes it smaller (foundation for subtraction). In order to achieve this, we decided to use cause and effect as a theme across both disciplines. The students read a story about 10 turtles that jump off a log one by one; we then used that same idea to introduce cause and effect in math using a pan balance. Throughout the week, as students practiced their reading and math lessons, causes and effects were discussed in every lesson and context. At the end of the week, the students were challenged to design a balance out of recycled materials using cause and effect examples in their team discussions. They had to prove the balance worked by verbalizing and modeling math sentences with their creation.

2. Standards-based approach

In this type of lesson, the teacher looks at the standards for all subject areas currently being taught and designs a project that includes all of those concepts.

For example, I had a group of third graders who were learning about area in math, insulators versus conductors in science, and persuasive writing in ELA. I challenged the students to redesign a standard birdbath in order to keep its water from freezing as quickly in the winter. (They were not allowed to use electricity or any form of fire.) The students tested various materials then applied their understanding of insulators to decide what type of material to make their birdbath from. They also discovered that by reducing the surface area of the birdbath, it could hold the same amount of water but the insulator would protect more of the water and less would be exposed to the cold air at the surface. The students posted their designs online along with a sales pitch defending their design.

3. Thematic approach

Some teachers create a design challenge that relates to the story in their basal each week. They still teach phonics, grammar, and reading with the research-based best practices, but then enhance their lessons with a STEM block (maybe 30 minutes a day). Students move through the engineering design process throughout the week and present their design solution at the end of the week. They also use themes from that week's story in designing word problems and/ or math tasks.

For example, my first grade team recently read a story in which a little boy and his dog get into trouble and his mother puts the dog outside. They were also working on subtraction within twenty in math that week. The students were challenged to design an outdoor living area for the dog. The teachers provided a budget sheet that offered two or three options for all of the items the dog might need along with twenty unifix cubes. The students used their cubes to budget for the items they wanted to put in the dogs living space. After creating their budget, the students consulted with their financial advisor (the teacher) to defend the upgrades and sacrifices they made with their budget to make sure all of the dog's needs were met. After making any necessary modifications, the students used drawing software to create an image of the space they designed.

When we began to use STEM in the elementary classrooms, we had no idea how well it would enhance students' understanding of all content areas. (In fact, every one of our STEM-infused classrooms showed more than a year's growth on reading assessments this year.) But even beyond that, we have seen exponential growth in the 21 st century skills of critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity.

Please stay tuned for Part 2: Student Mindsets of STEM-Infusion and Part 3: Fostering Teacher Buy-In.

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Why PBL?

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Create a sure-to-impress flashing birthday card or design a light-up holiday card-all with paper circuits! In this activity, students are guided through the process to create simple paper circuitry using only copper tape, a coin cell battery, a light-emitting diode (LED) ...

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Ignite STEM learning in K-12 - TeachEngineering

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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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Open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science.

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Tools for

Ambitious
Science
Teaching

Companion Book available now on Harvard Ed Press

Pressing for evidence- based explanations

Planning for engagement with important science ideas

Supporting on-going changes in thinking

Eliciting students' ideas

What is Ambitious Science Teaching?

Great teaching can be learned. This web site provides a vision of ambitious science instruction for elementary, middle school and high school classrooms. Ambitious teaching deliberately aims to support students of all backgrounds to deeply understand science ideas, participate in the activities of the discipline, and solve authentic problems.

We feature 4 core sets of teaching practices that support these goals. These core sets make up the Ambitious Science Teaching Framework. The framework has been based on classroom research from the past 30 years-research that has asked, "What kinds of talk, tasks, and tools do students need in order to fully engage in meaningful forms of science learning?"

If you are a member of a group of science educators committed to the improvement of teaching, the vision, practices, and tools here will furnish a common language for you about teaching. You will be able to identify "what we will get better at" and how to get started.

Become Part of a Community That Shares a Common Vision of Excellence in Teaching.

Because ambitious science teaching focuses on doing four things really well in the classroom (the core practices), members of our community can speak a common language about how to continually improve instruction and support student learning. We can frame problems together and work towards solutions with help from each other. The expertise of our community comes from our members (teachers, instructional coaches, teacher educators) as well as from extensive empirical classroom research. On this site you can explore how other professionals are using core practices and the tools that go with them.

Explore New Tools That Support Student Learning

This site provides a constantly evolving set of tools to help improve student participation and learning. Some of these tools will help you plan for student engagement with "big" science ideas. Some will help students reason publicly with each other about science ideas. Others will help students engage in scientific modeling, explanation and argument with evidence. Still others will scaffold science-specific writing and talk. We have unique sets of tools for teachers, instructional coaches, and teacher educators.

But here's what is really important about our tools-they belong to the community, meaning that they need to be continually tested under different classroom conditions in order to be improved and diversified.

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EiE Video Snippets: Focus on NGSS Practices | Engineering is Elementary

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Instructional Leadership for Science Practices

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PART ONE: (ON SCIENTIFIC LITERACY) "KIDS NATURALLY ARE CURIOUS"

THE PRESIDENT: When we decided to take action -- when the Clean Air Act passed, when Clean Water Act passes, when the EPA is empowered -- it turns out that we can solve these problems....

THE PRESIDENT: But the danger is, is that we then take it for granted ...
...scientific literacy generally and encouraging young people to be excited about science -- you're the Science Guy. This is your demographic.

BILL NYE: These are my people. (Laughter.)

THE PRESIDENT: These are your peeps, as they say. You're focused all the time on getting young people excited about science. What have you learned about what works? And why do you think it is that our schools are not more successful in getting kids excited about science, technology, engineering, math, particularly when it comes to girls but also when it comes to African Americans, Hispanics? Where do you think things are breaking down? Because kids naturally are curious. They love tooling around the figuring stuff out. What happens?

BILL NYE: Well, our problem -- we have -- you have to invest in science education. And very compelling research -- 10 years old is about as old as you can be to get the so-called lifelong passion for science. And it might be -- it seems to me it's about as old as you can be to get a lifelong passion for anything. Like, when did you want to lead, change things? You were in second grade.

THE PRESIDENT: I might be a -- I was a kind of late bloomer, I think. It wasn't until I was like 45 I decided I was going to do something with my life. (Laughter.)

BILL NYE: Really? What's next?

THE PRESIDENT: No, no, I'm teasing. But your general point, though, is that you want to catch kids around 10 -- before they're 10.

BILL NYE: Before they're 10. And it's easy. This is the thing. We want -- for my side of it, we want science in every day, in every grade. So there's a huge opportunity for us, because teaching science, elementary level, is very inexpensive. And we fight these surprising problems about reading and arithmetic and standards and so on. It seems like a very solvable problem, but we have to, in my opinion, we have to invest in the elementary grades and keep it going.

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Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she's a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great engineer. When her great-great-aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes for a visit and mentions her one unfinished goal--to fly--Rosie sets to work building a contraption ...

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This is a stupendously awesome commercial from a toy company called GoldieBlox, which has developed a set of interactive books and games to "disrupt the pink aisle and inspire the future generation of female engineers." The CEO, Debbie Sterling, studied engineering at Stanford, where she was dismayed by the lack of women in her program. (For a long look at the Gordian knot that is women's underrepresentation in STEM fields, check out this New York Times article from October.) As the GoldieBlox website attests, only 11 percent of the world's engineers are female. Sterling wants to light girls' inventive spark early, supplementing the usual diet of glittery princess products with construction toys "from a female perspective."

We love this video because it subverts a bunch of dumb gender stereotypes-all to the strains of a repurposed Beastie Boys song. In it, a trio of smart girls could not be less impressed by the flouncing beauty queens in the commercial they're watching. So they use a motley collection of toys and household items (including a magenta feather boa and a pink plastic tea set) to assemble a huge Rube Goldberg machine. Watch to see what happens next. (And watch another great GoldieBlox ad from earlier this year.)

Bonus points to GoldieBlox for releasing an award-winning book in which its marquee character Goldie, the "kid inventor who loves to build," dreams up " a spinning machine to help her dog, Nacho, chase his tail." Screw you, Soul Cycle. That's the kind of spinning machine we can get behind.

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This Awesome Ad, Set to the Beastie Boys, Is How to Get Girls to Become Engineers

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This is a stupendously awesome commercial from a toy company called GoldieBlox, which has developed a set of interactive books and games to "disrupt the pink aisle and inspire the future generation of female engineers." The CEO, Debbie Sterling, studied engineering at Stanford, where she was dismayed by the lack of women in her program.