TCHERS' VOICE: Next Generation Science Standards
Teacher, It's Cold Outside: Ideas for Relatable Science & Student Engagement
So much science to know (Teacher, it’s cold outside.) Why icicles glisten and glow (Teacher, it’s cold outside.) What matter makes up snow? (Your students will want to know.) Why is winter so cold? (Teacher, you’ll freeze out
Choosing an NGSS Course Pathway: Are You Robert Frost or Yogi Berra?
How might we use the 3-D learning vision to inform the NGSS course pathways we seek? Back in November, I was desperately seeking resources that would reveal the one road that would allow our busy science
STEAM-ing along with Science
In October, Tch Next Gen Squadster Meg Richard was recognized with SmartBrief Education’s monthly Editor's Choice Content Award for her creative post on how to engage students and STEAM through Halloween with 13 fun and creative lesson
Building Towards NGSS Classrooms
Systems tend to move toward a stable state, and so do people. Change is usually hard, and if it doesn't feel hard, you probably aren’t really changing all that much. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)