When teaching social justice issues through science teachers can consider focusing their instruction on 3 components:

• Social Component- focuses on supporting student leadership and collaboration

• Political Component – prepares students to take action

• Academic Component- helps students to use science knowledge as a tool for change

Other teaching strategies and frameworks that can be helpful in bringing social justice issues into science education are:

• Place Based Education

• Inquiry based learning / Problem based learning

• Project Based Learning

• Experiential Learning

• Design Thinking Framework

• Content, Process and Product Framework

• Knowledge-Building Communities (KBC) Model

• Culturally Relevant Pedagogy is key to bring in personal real- life connections to science education to the learner

• Transdisciplinary Approach- to show cross curricular connections between various subject disciplines can illustrate the interconnections between using any subject area to understand and find solutions for social justice related issues

• Bringing in Current News Events into your science classroom discussions