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NGSS – Systems Thinking: What resource should we use? (with a link to a unit plan template)
To be clear, this post will not answer the question “What resource should we use?”. Hopefully, however, it will provide some meaningful guidance. I recently received a query along these lines from the Head of Teaching and Learning from a school that I worked with intensively before COVID and once or twice since then. This
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Data Literacy 6 – 12: Easy to implement, reliable and relevant Data Lit engagements from the New York Times
As I have mentioned before, building data literacy skills at every grade level is paramount as we all transition to this brave new world. In my experience, there is more attention to this practice in middle school and high school classrooms than in K – 5 classrooms, but I would argue we are still not
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NGSS Assessment (and unit) development: Uncoupling DCI concepts is an essential first step in planning for assessment
The content (DCIs) in our science standards is dense. There are very often multiple ideas packed into a single sentence in a DCI – even in kindergarten. When working on assessment development with educators, the first thing we do is to make sense of the many discrete ideas packed into the DCIs in our performance
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