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Professional Learning Unit
Scientist Circles: Fostering Student Participation and Collaboration in Class Discussions
Moving students into a circle so they can see and speak directly to each other can transform a quiet classroom into a collaborative discussion space!...
Professional Learning Unit
Creating Class Consensus Models to Support Student Sensemaking
Gain experience and strategies in using the wealth of your students’ ideas to collaboratively build consensus models for complex phenomena....
Professional Learning Unit
Analyzing and Interpreting Data to Support Student Sensemaking in a High School Evolution Unit
This Professional Learning Unit uses a storyline unit with an anchoring phenomenon that is a case study in which the patient has acute mountain sickness at Everest base camp to focus participant learning on how the Science and Engineering Practice An...
Professional Learning Unit
How Do I Begin to Develop a Storyline for a Unit?
In this introduction to Storylines, educators will be introduced to the Key Features in Curriculum Materials that Support the Framework and NGSS. They will then hear experts describe the key routines in a storyline unit and explore a high-quality NGS...