Designing the Learning Plan
Once I completed stages 1 and 2 of the UbD template I was ready to begin developing my learning plan. I started to think about what activities would help me [...]
Beyond Career Day: Integrating STEM Professionals into the Science Classroom
The National Science Teachers Association has chosen the Academy’s K-12 Education Team to present at this year’s annual conference in San Antonio, TX. The conference, titled “Next Generation Science: Learning, [...]
Black Holes and Astrobiology at the Academy
Astrobiology—the search for and study of non-Earthling life—is not exactly like Hollywood presents it to be, where aliens infect space ships or little green men from Mars stare back at [...]
Science Beach Reading
Despite the weird weather over the winter we’re in full on summer mode here at the Academy which means we’re picking our summer reading material. Whether you have a grand [...]
Opting Out of Teaching
In January 2011, the Academy hosted an event on The Future of Science Education in New York with leading New York education policy makers. Members of the audience – mostly [...]
Trials and Terrors of Biology Class
Author, storyteller, and teacher Matthew Dicks tells the story of his high-school arch nemesis, a biology teacher known as “Bunhead,” in part two of our science-storytelling podcast series. You can [...]
Science Practices
The new framework for science education is an important step forward in thinking about how children learn science. One of the key elements of this document is the incorporation of [...]
Project-Based Science
Recently I gave a group of teachers a presentation on Project-Based Science (PBS). In this post I want to talk about this important new movement in science education. PBS comes [...]
Have Lobster, Will Travel
Kelly Vaughan isn’t your average middle school science teacher. She’s willing to go out on a limb to engage her students—even if that means wrangling crustaceans now and then. She [...]
Physics Teachers NYC – AP Physics B&C
AP Physics B is undergoing a major redesign. The implementation of the new approach is expected to occur by 2015. Mr. Hernandez will outline the latest developments in Physics B [...]
