Successful Strategies to Adapt K–12 Science Experiences for Distance Learning

This week’s tip is a must-read report, Keep Teaching Science: Successful Strategies to Adapt K-12 Science Experiences for Distance Learning. Written by Vanessa Wolbrink and Jenny Sarna and promoted in the NextGenScience monthly newsletter, NGSS Now, it is a compelling resource that highlights examples of effective and equitable adaptations for science teaching and learning at a distance. The report addresses the following:

• Strategies to adapt science materials for distance learning
• Explaining phenomena or designing solutions
• Integrating the three dimensions for instruction and assessment
• Motivating student sense-making of a phenomenon by leveraging the context of students’ homes and communities
• Eliciting student ideas through discourse and writing in both synchronous and asynchronous environments
• Building on students’ prior knowledge
• Considerations for supporting teachers in a distance environment
• Technology considerations for a distance learning environment

For an archived webinar, click on this link:  Keep Teaching Science webinar

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Stay healthy and safe. Dean