The California Science Project (CSP) is a university-based professional learning network for preK-16 teachers using teams of classroom educators and scientists.
Encouraged, inspired, excited, belonging, encouraged. Some closing words from administrators at the CS Equity for School Leaders workshop. Expanding our state community for more equitable computer science. #CSforCA#CSTAEquityFellows#CSEquityFellow#CSEquity@csteachersorg
We're getting ready to release two NEW high school units! 🚀 #LearnwithOpenSciEd
Join us for our FREE webinars to experience the anchoring phenomenon routine and learn best practices for setting up the unit investigations! #OpenSciEdHS#inspirededucators
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What makes the education of multilingual learners so complex? This essay traces the complexity across three issues (the English learner label, “academic language,” and dual language), with implications for both language and content educators. Link: doi.org/10.3102/0013189X2312…
Excited to work with educators & ed leaders at @KySciTA state meeting this weekend! I'll be engaging the group with @STEMTeachTools & thinking about…
Supporting equity and justice through #SciEd#NGSS instruction: The road traveled and the one ahead
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ALT logo for the conference at the linked page showing Science: For everyone, everywhere
Climate change: how bad could the future be if we do nothing?
I developed this table of impacts for my book 📕 ‘Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction’ based on the @IPCC_CH 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 reports
Beyond 1.5°C #ClimateChange impacts gets worse and worse
The crosscutting concepts #CCC can serve as a form of structured reflection lenses to help teachers better understand classroom phenomena.
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Today's Share: NGSS aligned Prek-5 resources for both formal and informal science that I had the opportunity to co-create with diff. teams. learninginplaces.org/ K-3 socio-ecological frameworks-tools-seasonal field based storyline, inclusive of families & community.
This week, we highlight Candice Dickens-Russell, a Caeli’s Innovation Hub member who is driven to keep justice and equity at the forefront of students' environmental learning. Read more here: buff.ly/3bDHpWY
"You have some extreme weather disaster, and people want to know: Did #ClimateChange flood my house? Did climate change make it so hot that my power went out?" - @BerkeleyLab's @MichaelFWehner who studies extreme weather. "Those are good questions." @NPRnpr.org/2022/07/07/110781444…
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Explore the science and culture of race while connecting to current biological research at UCLA. Recommended for middle and high school teachers. $75 registration fee.
ALT Image from the embedded video highlighting the Lead in Santa Ana case study.
Leveraging Environmental Justice to Unlock the Potential of Education
(~3 hours of instruction)
Jeanne Norris, Kelley Lê, Juan Manuel Rubio, Deb L. Morrison & Philip Bell (June 2022)
Learning Goals
Educators will be able to:
Define key aspects of environmental justice.
Describe rationales and strategies for engaging students in environmental justice learning activities.
Explore with learners the socio-historic contexts that influence different traditions of scientific activity and knowledge production.
Utilize environmental justice centered curricula resources to focus instruction on societally relevant science.
How can science instruction be meaningfully connected to the out-of-school lives of students? Use this PD session to learn more: stemteachingtools.org/pd/ses…
PLS RT—The model of #SciEd learning in #NGSS & Framework integrates multiple dimensions of learning.
Check out this #SciEdOverview 🧵 to learn about what 3D formative assessment looks like.
Please share how you engage in formative assessment with your students. #NGSSchat
ALT Formative Assessment
“A process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve students’ achievements of intended instructional outcomes.”
— Formative Assessment for Students and Teachers (FAST) SCASS, 2012, p. 4
A total lunar eclipse over the #SouthPole last week. At its peak a giant band of auroras stretched across the sky, as Allen Foster and I watched spellbound from the roof of DSL. Zoom in to see us between the @NSF@SPTelescope and @BICEP_Keck telescope. An absolutely magical night