Science

Instructional Practices

Teaching from a range of complex text is optimized when teachers in all subject areas implement the following strategies on a routine basis:

1. Ensuring wide reading from complex text that varies in length.

2. Making close reading and rereading of texts central to lessons.

3. Emphasizing text-specific complex questions, and cognitively complex tasks, reinforce focus on the text and cultivate independence.

4. Emphasizing students supporting answers based upon evidence from the text.

5. Providing extensive research and writing opportunities (claims and evidence).

Science and Engineering Practices (NRC Framework for K-12 Science Education, 2010)

• Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering).

• Developing and using models.

• Planning and carrying out investigations.

• Analyzing and interpreting data.

• Using mathematics, information and computer technology, and computational thinking.

• Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering).

• Engaging in argument from evidence.

• Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information.

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