Science

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.

LaCuKnoS Project Virtual Professional Development Series

This series includes lessons and professional development video sessions focused on: multilingual learning strategies for STEM, culturally responsive strategies for STEM, knowledge building strategies for STEM, semantic waving in science instruction, and autonomy touring in science instruction.

Author/Presenter

Cory Buxton

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2022
Short Description

This series includes lessons and professional development video sessions focused on: multilingual learning strategies for STEM, culturally responsive strategies for STEM, knowledge building strategies for STEM, semantic waving in science instruction, and autonomy touring in science instruction.

Institute for Native-serving Educators (INE) Curriculum Units

This collection provides K-12 math and science curriculum units and practice guides authored by INE educators, as well as culturally responsive resources for educators and counselors.

Author/Presenter

Angelina Castagno

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2022
Short Description

This collection provides K-12 math and science curriculum units and practice guides authored by INE educators, as well as culturally responsive resources for educators and counselors.

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.

Spiral Notebook App

The Spiral Notebook app is a digital portfolio tool that enables teachers to efficiently capture multiple representations of classroom practice via documents, images, and videos, and organize, share, and discuss evidence of student thinking reflected in these multimedia artifacts.

Author/Presenter

Jose-Felipe Martinez-Fernandez

Year
2024
Short Description

The Spiral Notebook app is a digital portfolio tool that enables teachers to efficiently capture multiple representations of classroom practice via documents, images, and videos, and organize, share, and discuss evidence of student thinking reflected in these multimedia artifacts.

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.

Quality Talk Resource Library

This library contains lessons and tools designed for preservice teachers that focus on argumentation, or quality talk, in high school science.

Author/Presenter

P. Karen Murphy

Year
2023
Short Description

This library contains lessons and tools designed for preservice teachers that focus on argumentation, or quality talk, in high school science.