Openscied classroom

How often have you heard the following questions from your students: Why do I need to know this? Is this going to be on the test? Why does this matter? I, like you, have heard these questions repeated like a broken record over the years of being a middle school science teacher.

OpenSciEd takes advantage of routines—activities that play specific roles in advancing the storyline through the content with structures to help students achieve the objectives of those activities.

Inside an OpenSciEd Classroom

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The Driving Question Board (DQB) is a tool used throughout the OpenSciEd units as a way to generate, keep track of, and revisit student questions related to the anchoring phenomenon and related phenomena.

Improve student responses to lab activities that demonstrate their understanding of scientific principles using the CER method. Students will write their answer using claim, evidence, reasoning which will strengthen their writing skills and science knowledge in the grade 4, 5, 6, 7 classroom.

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