About Unpack Everything: Science Education Reform in the Real World
Conversations with teachers, researchers, and other folks who are helping make science education better for students, hosted by Sam Pinter and Dan Voss.
Follow along and send us the questions YOU have about science education! @SciEdPod on Instagram and Twitter
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To wrap up 2024, Sam and Dan share a bit about what's been going on lately personally and professionally. We'll be back to sharing our regular conversations with science education folks in the new year!
In case you'd like to jump around, here's a general outline of the ground covered:
00:48 - Dan shares about his newborn baby and reflections on becoming a parent
13:27 - Sam shares about what’s happening in her classroom before the holiday break
24:43 - Sam shares about her school’s accreditation process and her role in this work
33:43 - Sam and Dan share about an OpenSciEd Middle School project, funded by Amazon Future Engineer, which is revising some of the original OpenSciEd Middle School units to incorporate computer science learning using micro:bits (You can learn more about this project here (https://openscied.org/uncategorized/openscied-and-amazon-partner-to-bring-computer-science-education-to-middle-school-students/).)
47:27 - Dan shares about his grad work
50:25 - Some final reflections
Follow along and send us the questions YOU have about science education!
@SciEdPod on Instagram (https://instagram.com/sciedpod/) and Twitter (https://x.com/sciedpod)
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Our music is 'Rainbows' by Scott Buckley (http://www.scottbuckley.com.au) released under CC BY 4.0
11 Nov 2024
How can politics impact science education?
Science education experts Dan and Sam dissect the Franklin Standards, revealing how partisan politics undermine the teaching of science and threaten democratic norms.
26 Oct 2024
How do we teach science with attention to language needs? (with Myra Lam)
This week, Dan and Sam are joined by elementary school teacher, Myra Lam, to talk about teaching science with attention to language needs. She discusses the strategies she uses in her classroom that have supported her multilingual students.
Resources:
Why you should stop pre-teaching science vocabulary and focus on students developing conceptual meaning first (https://stemteachingtools.org/brief/66) (STEM Teaching Tool #66)
Science in the City by Bryan Brown (https://hep.gse.harvard.edu/9781682533741/science-in-the-city/)
Thinking and Feedback Protocol (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ya1ey_tqvcHv3P6qZ69BSiw5BfDCU1Kn/view?usp=sharing)
Knowles Teaching Fellowship (https://knowlesteachers.org/teaching-fellowship)
Pedagogy of Hope by Paulo Freire (https://bookshop.org/p/books/pedagogy-of-hope-reliving-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed-paulo-freire/7770553?ean=9781350190191)
Follow along and send us the questions YOU have about science education!
@SciEdPod on Instagram (https://instagram.com/sciedpod/) and Twitter (https://x.com/sciedpod)
unpackeverythingpod@gmail.com (unpackeverythingpod@gmail.com)
Our music is 'Rainbows' by Scott Buckley (http://www.scottbuckley.com.au) released under CC BY 4.0.
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