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Middle School Virtual Orientation to Groupwork Unit

This virtualized version of the Stanford SCALE Science Unit 0 – Orientation to Groupwork for 6th grade. was co-designed by Melissa Wilburn (6th grade STEMAZing Teacher Leader with the Marana Unified School District), Sherrie Dennis (STEMAZing Robot General and Teacher Leader), and DaNel Hogan (Director of The STEMAZing Project). It can be used at any…

#NaturesWonder – What Made That? – #SciencingAndEngineering with @SciGalNielsen

Join STEMAZing Teacher Leader, Lisa Nielsen, as she notices and wonders about one of nature’s wonders in southern Arizona’s. There are so many amazing phenomena right outside your door. In this video you will learn to take a step back and look closer at nature’s wonders. This activity only requires a paper, pencil, and your…

Science and Engineering Practices for K-12 Science Classrooms Infographic

This interactive infographic from the National Academies Press highlights essential practices for K-12 science classrooms from A Framework for K-12 Science Education with references to the contents of the full report. Click HERE for fully interactive infographic. Below is a static PDF version of the infographic.

You Be The Chemist

You Be The Chemist Activity Guides use common, inexpensive items so educators can provide hands-on learning for K-8 students to explore foundational science concepts. Hands-on learning engages young children in exploring science. These activities make real-world connections for students to see the value of science and chemistry in everyday learning and life. Since no formal lab…

Stanford NGSS Integrated Curriculum

An Exploration of a Multidimensional World This 6th, 7th, and 8th grade curriculum aligns to the California Integrated model in which earth and space science, life science, physical science and/or engineering are integrated within each curriculum unit. All the units: are project-based include Instructionally embedded assessments align to the 5E instructional model (i.e.,…

Sample Learning Menus for Remote Learning at Home

Home learning activities that include options that depend on low or no technology that focus on students’ interests and the world around them. States and schools can provide learning menu activities as options for ways for students to continue learning at home with their families and peers. Find sample learning menus for PreK-HS here.

NSTA Daily Do

Daily Dos are sensemaking tasks teachers and parents can use to engage their students in authentic, relevant science learning. Students actively try to figure out how the world works (science) or how to design solutions to problems (engineering) using the science and engineering practices. Engaging in these practices requires that students be part of a learning…

ASTA Deeper Dive Middle School Units

Through an intense professional learning opportunity, 60 middle level teachers working in teams learned how to utilize Five Tools and Processes for Implementing AzSS. Participants created a 3D unit blueprint (Tool 1) and developed multiple instructional sequences (Tool 4) that formed a 3D science instructional unit utilizing the 5E instructional model. These draft units that are published are sample…

ciencia E ingenieria

Nuestra Colección #cienciaEingenieria incluirá videos dirigidos a los estudiantes junto con videos dirigidos a los maestros que destacan las mejores prácticas para involucrar a los estudiantes. Los maestros pueden usar los videos o pueden usar los videos como desarrollo profesional y luego involucrar a sus estudiantes a usarlos completamente fuera de línea (preferido). El enfoque…

IDEAS Engineering Journal

The IDEAS Engineering Journal is designed to be used to engage students to iterate through then engineering design process using a starting model of something they have built. Two looper airplanes, pool noodle rockets, and rattle writers (aka doodle bots) are some examples you might consider. Peer critique is incorporated into the journal. It can…