Ambitious Science Teaching

Module 1: How do I help students make sense of evidence and build explanations?
Watch: Co-constructing Summary Tables
Read: Summary Tables and Charts
Discuss: How do I help students make sense of evidence and build explanation?
Module 2: How do I help students make sense of evidence and build explanations?
Watch: Revising a List of Student-Generated Claims
Discuss: How do I help students make sense of evidence and build explanations?
Module 3: How can I support whole-class conversations after students have drawn models?
Watch: Structured Share-out of Models
Discuss: How can I support whole-class conversations after students have drawn models?
Module 4: How can I support multilingual pedagogies?
Watch: Multilingual Evidence Cards
Discuss: How can I support multilingual pedagogies?
Module 5: How do I promote scientific identities?
Watch: Supporting Scientific Identities
Discuss: How do I promote scientific identities?
Module 6: How do I develop a culture for collaborative discussion?
Watch: Creating a Culture of Collaborative Discussion
Discuss: How do I develop a culture for collaborative discussion? How might we reframe the culture of science and collaborate together?
Module 7: How do I help my students revise their models toward the end of the unit?
Watch: Co-constructing a Must-Have Checklist
Discuss: How do I help my students revise their models toward the end of the unit?
Module 8: How can we support students in seeing the unobservable for modeling?
Watch: Science Theater
Discuss: How can we support students in seeing the unobservable for modeling?
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Watch: Science Theater

Ambitious Science Teaching Watch: Science Theater

In this video, you will see a teaching team explaining and modeling how they used science theater to help their classes understand how dye molecules move across chromatography paper. Notice how the teachers use relevant metaphors to help students understand complex ideas and are able to include broad student participation.

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