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Shifting to Student-Centered Instruction

Advice, strategies, and encouragement for teachers as they make the shift from having their students learn about science as a body of knowledge to a dynamic set of practices and concepts that help us understand the natural and designed world and solve its problems.
 

Shifting to Student-Centered Instruction

From School Stories, Science in Action
Shifting to Student-Centered Instruction

Advice, strategies, and encouragement for teachers as they make the shift from having their students learn about science as a body of knowledge to a dynamic set of practices and concepts that help us understand the natural and designed world and solve its problems.
 

Support Materials

Toolkit

Download this pdf Download this pdf Science In Action for Middle School Teachers (PDF)

School Stories Segments

Middle School

Middle school science teachers open their classrooms to provide examples of excellence in hands-on, student-focused instruction. 

Introduction | Science in Action

What is 3D Science? | Science in Action

Phenomena in Focus | Science in Action

SEPs in the Classroom | Science in Action

CCCs in the Classroom | Science in Action

Literacy in Science | Science in Action

Shifting to Student-Centered Instruction

Putting Science in Action in Middle School Part I | Science in Action

Putting Science in Action in Middle School Part II | Science in Action

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