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