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The following Professional Learning Units (PLUs) have been carefully curated to provide you opportunities to build and/or revise ideas about what it means to actively engage all students in learning. You will also gain instructional strategies to onramp and support student engagement in science learning over the course of a lesson, unit, school year and K-12 experience.
General Science Elementary High School Middle School
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The adoption of three-dimensional science standards based on A Framework for K–12 Science Education necessitates instructional shifts in the classroom. Collectively these shifts can be described as the ways in which we create opportunities for students to actively try to make sense of the world. In this PLU, we’ll work together (asynchronously) to identify the critical attributes of sensemaking.
This PLU focuses on how the rich knowledge students bring to learning--including student questions, experiences, and diverse backgrounds related to phenomena and problems--can be used to drive your teaching and all students’ learning.
Learn how to identify relevant, authentic problems to engage all your students in meaningful engineering design experiences. You’ll also explore resources available to support you in selecting problems to put in front of your students and strategies to help students identify problems they want to pursue individually or in small groups for STEM competitions or their own interests.
Research reveals the way we say things in our classrooms impacts students’ sense of belonging. This PLU presents research-to-practice(s) instructional strategies we can employ to communicate with all our students and to really hear the ideas and experiences students are communicating to us and to each other.
The Supporting Equitable Sensemaking - A Tool for Educators PLU is created around the Features of Classroom Culture that Support Equitable Sensemaking tool developed by OpenSciEd. Participants use the tool to recognize key features in K-12 classrooms (through video and vignettes) and reflect on the “teacher moves” observed to build and sustain a classroom culture that makes sensemaking accessible to all students.