Eugene and Dr. Steve Westlake (Cardiff University) were recently guests on the podcast, Your Money, Your World, where the focus of the episode was “Understanding Our Carbon Footprints”. We decided to rebroadcast the episode because we felt that many of our listeners would find the conversations interesting and relevant to our own understanding of climate change and how we teach this subject.
Read MoreEugene and Matt talk to Katie Worth about her new book and what her extensive research can teach us about climate change education in the U.S.
Read MoreEugene and Matt have recently helped create a new series of free and open lessons on climate change called Saving the Monarchs. In this episode, Eugene and Matt discuss the inspiration for creating these lessons, some of the design decisions they made along the way, and how teachers can use these materials in their own classrooms.
Read MoreDuring this episode, Eugene and Matt are joined by a special guest - Tashanda Giles-Jones. Tashanda is a teacher at the Environmental Charter Middle School in Inglewood, California, and she'll be sharing some of the work she's done helping students become leaders in their community through outdoor and environmental projects.
Read MoreIn this special episode, Eugene mainly listens in to a small group of teachers who share their experiences and offer advice for how to engage students within this challenging remote learning environment.
Read MoreIn this episode, our special conversation with Dr. Okhee Lee continues now with a focus on language learning and the role it should play in our science classrooms.
Read MoreIn this episode, we'll talk with Okhee Lee about NGSS and get her unique perspectives and advice surrounding teaching and learning.
Read MoreIn this episode, Matt and Eugene talk with Paul Andersen, an educational consultant, a Montana-based science teacher for 20 years, and most famously the creator of hundreds of science YouTube tutorials that have been viewed by millions of teachers and students.
Read MoreIn this episode, we'll talk about the election, from our own vantage points, and from what we expect to see with a new government for science and education.
Read MoreIn this episode “Teacher perspectives from a small charter school”, we'll hear from Elizabeth Brooking - a middle school science teacher who faces daily challenges supporting at-risk students during this period of remote instruction.
Read MoreIn this episode “Updates from the classroom with a guest teacher”, we'll hear from Sarah Rahman - a practicing middle school science teacher on how remote learning is going for her.
Read MoreIn this episode “Teaching alongside a climate crisis”, we find ourselves engulfed in some of the worst weather and air quality that we have seen in the western states.
Read MoreIn this episode “Looking for the silver lining in remote learning”, we try to look past some of the immediate challenges that all teachers are facing for some benefits and new opportunities.
Read MoreIn this episode “Starting Fall Remotely”, we explore some of the challenges teachers are facing right now as they start a new term teaching remotely, and how we might continue to emphasize a coherent focus around science learning and NGSS while students are learning at home.
Read MoreWith NSTA's annual conference canceled due to coronavirus concerns, our friends from PocketLab decided to organize the first ScIC (Science is Cool) one-day conference that aimed to combine the best parts of conferences - connecting, learning, idea sharing, within a fun online environment.
Read MoreIn this episode "Remote teaching with NGSS", Eugene and Matt focus on the shift to online or remote teaching and the particular challenges and advantages that NGSS offers us.
Read MoreIn this episode "Teaching in uncertain times", Eugene and Matt talk about teaching science during uncertain times, like now during a global pandemic.
Read MoreIn this episode "Supporting NGSS in your classroom", Eugene and Matt talk about classroom strategies that can help move instruction toward NGSS. For example, how do sentence frames, vocabulary, and hands-on activities look in Matt's ideal classroom.
Read MoreIn this episode "NGSS and Climate Change", Eugene and Matt about climate change, how it appears in the NGSS, and how youth leaders like Greta Thunberg can provide inspiration for great science engagement and inquiry.
Read MoreIn this episode "Dissecting an NGSS standard", Matt discusses the connection between student achievement and teaching, and how teachers can make progress with NGSS.
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