Science Practice #2

This resource provides a series of professional development videos and resources that show teachers how to integrate literacy strategies into their science instruction, such as paraphrasing, summarizing, interactive read-alouds, interactive reading guides, vocabulary instruction, and writing a scientific explanation. Note that not all the videos contextualize learning in explanation of phenomenon. 

This resource from Achieve the Core provides tools to support educators in determining text complexity from both a quantitative and qualitative lens.

Data Nuggets are free classroom activities, co-designed by scientists and teachers to bring contemporary research and authentic data into the classroom. Data Nuggets feature a scientist role model and the story of what inspired their research. In a Data Nugget activity, students are guided through the entire process of science, including identifying hypotheses and predictions, visualizing and interpreting data, supporting claims using data as evidence, and asking their own questions for future research. 

The PhET Interactive Simulations provides interactive simulation exercises for students. 

This resource should be considered when when students engage in multiple representations of ideas. This includes making thinking visible in many ways. 

This University of Missouri resource includes the what, why, and how of multimodal STEM text sets as well as examples of text sets by topic.