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Professional Learning Design to Enhance Elementary Teacher's Pedagogical Design Capacity to Adapt Curriculum Materials for Local and Cultural Relevance

National Association for Research in Science Teaching, March 2024

Kate Cook Whitt, Lisa Kenyon


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Examining What Phenomena Matter to Students in a Customizable Unit

National Association for Research in Science Teaching, March 2024

Candice Guy-Gaytán, Awais Syed


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Related Paper Set: Designing, Supporting, and Enacting Elementary Science Units for Teacher Phenomenon Adaptation

National Association for Research in Science Teaching, April 2023

Kate Cook Whitt, Emily Harris, Lisa Kenyon, Leonard Kenyon, Adrienne Hanson, Rhonda Tate, Lindsey Mohan, Candice Guy-Gaytán


Introduction and Paper 1 (PDC), Paper 2 (Unit Design), Paper 3 (Teacher Learning), Paper 4 (Phenomenon Adaptations) and Discussion

Adapting phenomena in my 3-dimensional (elementary science) classroom to 5-dimensional learning

National Science Teachers Association, March 2023

Leonard Kenyon, Kate Cook Whitt, Lisa O. Kenyon

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Supporting elementary teachers in growing their design capacity to implement and adapt

NGSS-designed materials through meaningful and sustained science professional learning

Association for Science Teacher Education, January 2023

Kate Cook Whitt, Lisa Kenyon, Leonard Kenyon, Adrienne Hanson, Rhonda Tate


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Designing national environmental science units that invite local phenomena adaptation

National Association of Environmental Education Annual Conference, October 2022

Lisa Kenyon, Emily Harris, Kate Cook Whitt, Lindsey Mohan, Candice Guy-Gaytán, Leonard Kenyon, Darryl Reano, Cindy Soule


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Designing national curriculum intended for local adaptation to support place-based learning 

(in the related paper set "Models for place-based science education in schools)


National Association for Research in Science Teaching, April 2021

Lindsey Mohan, Kate Cook Whitt, Emily Harris


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Leveraging environmental learning in the design of NGSS units

National Association of Environmental Education Annual Conference, October 2020

Lindsey Mohan, Kate Cook Whitt, Emily Harris, Audrey Mohan


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A design framework for national place-independent instructional materials to incorporate local phenomena


International Conference of the Learning Sciences, June 2020

Emily Harris, Lindsey Mohan, Kate Cook Whitt


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Publications

How it All Happened: Cause and effect as a lens and thinking tool to observe and make sense of two puzzling phenomena


Science & Children, Fall, 2023

Lindsey Mohan, Emily Harris, Candice Guy-Gaytán


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