Week 1

Safety in the Science Classroom by NSTA

Week 2

Jarvis, C. (2020). Helping Students (re)think of themselves as scientists.

Laura Beth Kelly (2018).Draw a Scientist Uncovering students’ thinking about science and scientists 

Week 3

Bybee (2014). The BSCS 5E Instructional Model: Personal Reflections and Contemporary Implications

Week 4

Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Teachers’ Integration of Subject Matter, Pedagogy, Students and Learning Environments 
 

Week 5 

Olson (2008).More Than a Human Endeavor Teaching the nature of science at the elementary level

Wilcox & Lake (2018). Methods and Strategies: Teaching the Nature of Science to Elementary Students

Week 6

Cieto, M., & Witzig, S. B. (2022). It Starts at Home: Building on students’ interests through socioscientific issues-based approaches. Science & Children, 59(5), 38–42.

Week 7

Scott (2016). Using Citizen Science to Engage Preservice Elementary Educators in Scientific Fieldwork

Week 8

no readings

Week 9 

Bintz, W. P., Moore, S. D., & Librea-Carden, M. R. (2018). Using Text Sets to Teach STEM in the K-5 Classroom. In Text Sets (pp. 109-115). Brill.

Bybee, R. W. (2011). Scientific and engineering practices in K-12 classrooms. Science Teacher, 78(9), 34-40.

Sneider, C. (2012). Core ideas of engineering and technology: Understanding A Framework for K-12 Science Education. Science Scope, 35(5), 6.

Week 10 

Mensah (2021)  Culturally Relevant and Culturally Responsive Two Theories of Practice for Science Teaching

Madden & Joshi (2013). What does culture have to do with teaching science?

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Rogers, M. & Abell, S. (2008). The Art and (science)of Asking Questions

Sherdan, D., Anderson, A., Rouby, A., LaMee, A., Gilmer, P. J., & Oosterhof, A. (2014). Including Often-Missed Knowledge and Skills in Science Assessments. Science Scope, 38(1), 56.

Matt Bobrowsky (2023).Q: How can I convey the very long times involved in the history of the Earth and life on Earth?

Susan Gomez-Zwiep, William Straits, and Jo Topp (2015).5E for ELL Adaptations to the learning cycle provide an authentic context for English language development. 

Bill Lindquist and Courtney Loynachan (2016).Learning Science in a Second Language