Biology

Impact of an Adaptive Dialog that Uses Natural Language Processing to Detect Students’ Ideas and Guide Knowledge Integration

Author/Presenter

Gerard, L., Holtman, M., Riordan, B., & Linn, M. C.

Year
2025
Short Description

This study leverages natural language processing (NLP) to deepen our understanding of how students integrate their ideas about genetic inheritance while engaging in an adaptive dialog. 

Impact of an Adaptive Dialog that Uses Natural Language Processing to Detect Students’ Ideas and Guide Knowledge Integration

Author/Presenter

Gerard, L., Holtman, M., Riordan, B., & Linn, M. C.

Year
2025
Short Description

This study leverages natural language processing (NLP) to deepen our understanding of how students integrate their ideas about genetic inheritance while engaging in an adaptive dialog. 

Science Teachers Learning from Lesson Analysis (STeLLA) High School Biology Units

This collection of curriculum units focus on the biology topics of natural selection, matter and energy, and genetics. Each unit contains a series of lessons, videos, and materials for students and teachers.

Author/Presenter

Chris Wilson

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2022
Short Description

This collection of curriculum units focus on the biology topics of natural selection, matter and energy, and genetics. Each unit contains a series of lessons, videos, and materials for students and teachers.

Three-Dimensional Rural Science Lesson Plans

These high-quality, NGSS-aligned science lesson plans are built on phenomena meaningful to rural students. They include plans for middle school science, as well as high school biology, Earth science, chemistry, and physics.

Author/Presenter

Rebecca Sansom

Heather Leary

Max Longhurst

Joshua Stowers

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2023
Short Description

These high-quality, NGSS-aligned science lesson plans are built on phenomena meaningful to rural students. They include plans for middle school science, as well as high school biology, Earth science, chemistry, and physics.

Transforming Scientific Practices Through Teacher Leadership Place-based Curriculum

This NGSS-aligned place-based curriculum features experiential, field-based, inquiry-oriented K-12 learning activities that incorporate real-world applications integrating Hawaiian and 21st Century STEA²M. It includes atmospheric, biology, and geology lessons, as well as teacher-created Hawaiʻi and American Samoa lessons.

Author/Presenter

Pauline Chinn

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2022
Short Description

This NGSS-aligned place-based curriculum features experiential, field-based, inquiry-oriented K-12 learning activities that incorporate real-world applications integrating Hawaiian and 21st Century STEA²M. It includes atmospheric, biology, and geology lessons, as well as teacher-created Hawaiʻi and American Samoa lessons.

Responsive Instruction for Emergent Bilingual Learners in Biology (RIEL Biology) Lesson Plans

This resource collection includes lessons for nine different biology themes and content areas: matter and energy transformation, organization and development of living organisms, earth systems and patterns, energy, interdependence, heredity and reproduction, diversity and evolution of living organisms, the practice of science, and integration of knowledge and ideas. It also offers lessons for six different instructional elements: multiple modalities, funds of knowledge, collaboration, affirming identities, sociopolitical consciousness, and attention to language.

Author/Presenter

Julie Brown

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2022
Short Description

This resource collection includes lessons for nine biology themes and content areas: matter and energy transformation, organization and development of living organisms, earth systems and patterns, energy, interdependence, heredity and reproduction, diversity and evolution of living organisms, the practice of science, and integration of knowledge and ideas. It also offers lessons for six different instructional elements: multiple modalities, funds of knowledge, collaboration, affirming identities, sociopolitical consciousness, and attention to language.

PlantingScience Investigations

This collection of 10 investigations offers collaborative, NGSS-aligned plant science lessons for middle and high school that include guides for students, teachers, and mentors.

Author/Presenter

Catrina Adams

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2020
Short Description

This collection of 10 investigations offers collaborative, NGSS-aligned plant science lessons for middle and high school that include guides for students, teachers, and mentors.