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What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? What do science educators, teachers, teacher leaders, science specialists, professional development staff, curriculum designers, and school administrators need to know to create and support such experiences?

Ready, Set, Science! guides the way with an account of the groundbreaking and comprehensive synthesis of research into teaching and learning science in kindergarten through eighth grade. Based on the recently released National Research Council report Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, this book summarizes a rich body of findings from the learning sciences and builds detailed cases of science educators at work to make the implications of research clear, accessible, and stimulating for a broad range of science educators.

Ready, Set, Science! is filled with classroom case studies that bring to life the research findings and help readers to replicate success. Most of these stories are based on real classroom experiences that illustrate the complexities that teachers grapple with every day. They show how teachers work to select and design rigorous and engaging instructional tasks, manage classrooms, orchestrate productive discussions with culturally and linguistically diverse groups of students, and help students make their thinking visible using a variety of representational tools.

This book will be an essential resource for science education practitioners and contains information that will be extremely useful to everyone ï¿½including parents ï¿½directly or indirectly involved in the teaching of science.

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National Research Council. 2008. Ready, Set, SCIENCE!: Putting Research to Work in K-8 Science Classrooms. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/11882.

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Ready, Set, SCIENCE!: Putting Research to Work in K-8 Science Classrooms

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What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? What do science educators, teachers, teacher leaders, science specialists, professional development staff, curriculum designers, and school administrators need to know to create and support such experiences? Ready, Set, Science!

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6. Constructing explanations and designing solutions

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6. Constructing explanations and designing solutions

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Videos
Scientist profiles
Sentence frames
Small groups
Partners
Manipulative or realia
Word bank visuals
List, group or label
Anchor charts
Templates
Graphic organizers
Peer supports
Thinking maps
I see, I think -

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Discussion and Supporting Materials

Thought starters

1. How does Deeper Learning happen in science with students who are new to English?

2. In what ways do students and teachers both leverage students' native languages as an asset for learning?

3. How does project-based learning lead to deep and integrated learning of language and content?

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Flushing International High School
144-80 BARCLAY AVE
FLUSHING NY 11355

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Supporting ELLs Through Project-Based Learning

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Jordan Wolf, a science teacher at Flushing International High School, describes how he designs projects to meet the content and language needs of his students. Jordan talks about how he simultaneously develops content and language skills through small group work, hands-on activities, and heterogeneous group work.

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-sentence frames
-discussion cards
-peer translator
-visuals
-talking with a partner
-strategic grouping
-extra time
-activate prior knowledge
-graphic organizers
-multiple text varieties
-co-teachers
-dialogue about...
-manipulatives
-TPR gestures and signals for vocab
-create a common experience
-extra wait time
-think, pair, share
- finding recent article/headlines connected to topic
-sentence stems
-bilingual dictionary
-modeling
-subtitles on movies
-place mat discussion
-turn and talk
-Modified framework of Costa's leveled questions
-Generating questions through cornell notes
-Discrepant events
-Real-life connections beyond classroom
-Daily warm-up to prompt higher level thinking

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5. Using mathematics and computational thinking

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5. Using mathematics and computational thinking

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Give one Get one
Visuals
Digital Resources
Calculator
Modified tests
Collaborate, share across grade level
sentence frames
word bank
model
hands on activity
extra work time/processing time
Relevant examples/topics/real world examples
Think alouds
Graphic organizers
Math/Number talks
tiered assessment
Choice boards
Graphic organizers
Flexible grouping

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Small groups
Partnering
Sentence Frames
Sentence Starters
Word Walls
Specific Examples
Graphic Organizers
Web Maps
Realia
Calendar
Visuals
Draw/illustrate
Manipulatives
Choice Boards
Diagrams
Building 3-D Model
Computer Models
Creating a Movie
Creating a Music
Performing a Play
Multiple Formats of Assessment
Leveled Grouping

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3. Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

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3. Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

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technology
background/prior knowledge
culturally relevant/L1
choice activities
hands-on activities
self-paced learning
videos
visuals
realia
demonstrations
word banks
sentence stems
anchor charts
picture dictionary
flexible grouping
think-pair-share (turn and talk)
older mentor
partner work
thinking map

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8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

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8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

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-Individual Group/partner/whole group/teacher share (Could use L1 when possible)
-Visuals (anchor charts, word banks, pictures, sentence frames, videos)
-Written forms (text books, read alouds, applications that read to you)
-Technology (videos, applications)
-Translations (google translate, translate to L1, dictionaries)
-Extra (examples. paper vs. electronic)

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Auditory:
-playlists

Organization:
-tables/charts
-graphic organizers

Social:
-work with partner
-work with a same-language peer to help translate in L1
-small groups

Text Supports:
-modified texts
-highlight important text in a reading
-use of notes on an assessment
-CostaQ's
-Sentence frames
-word banks
-structured writing
-walk and write
-sentence stems

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-Graphic Organizer
-Group Work
-Vocabulary Share
-Think, Pair, Share
-Chalk Talk
-Model Expectations
-Visuals i.e. pictures and videos
-3-D Models
-Gradual Release of Responsibility
-Multiple ways to show they are learning
-Visual Cues
-Additional Time
-Turn and Talk
-Elbow Partner
-Gallery Walk
-Sentence Frames
-Frames for Writting
-Frames for Speaking
-Know, Want, Learn (KWL)

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Science Unscrambled: National K-12 Framework Video

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Science Unscrambled: National K-12 Framework Video

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF5bCOIGd5w

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