The activities below are a great way to give the students in your science class a brain break. They also make excellent team-building activities. What are brain breaks? Brain breaks are activities that can be done in the science classroom…
Exit tickets are one of my favorite types of formative assessments to use in an NGSS aligned classroom. My exit tickets used to be made of low-level knowledge-based questions, but since making the shift to NGSS I have had to…
I got a question from a reader last week asking me if I knew of any good resources for writing NGSS aligned lab reports. At face value, this seems like a very simple question. But with the adoption of the…
The Science and Engineering practice of Planning and Carrying out Investigations requires students to take a more active role in classroom experiment. Many teachers struggle with providing support for the experimental design process. However, it is essential that teachers provide…
