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How (and Why) to Do a White Board Assessment

There was one student in particular, who I’ll call “Alex.” He excelled in conversations with his peers and often shared his thoughts in class discussions, but his performance on written exams did not reflect the full depth of his understanding.
How (and Why) to Do a White Board Assessment

Rock On! A Virtual Reality Geology Project

A fourth grader from High Tech elementary North County stood inside a crater of an extinct volcano. He contemplated where to go next...
Rock On! A Virtual Reality Geology Project

Assessing Student Work with Next Generation Science Standards

"Creating a project-based curriculum in science was going to be a challenging albeit passionate undertaking."
Assessing Student Work with Next Generation Science Standards

Logs from San Diego Bay.

These words are written in memory of Jay Vavra, my former teaching partner...
Logs from San Diego Bay.

From Socratic Seminar to Space Science

I have been doing Socratic Seminars in my physics class long enough to know when they go...
From Socratic Seminar to Space Science

Annotating Teacher Work

The first might be expected of my eighth graders: they were not listening during class. The...
Annotating Teacher Work

Science Room as Drawing Room

What students find daunting in Biology is not so much the concepts, but the amount...
Science Room as Drawing Room
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