Dan Shay Science

Check out the 4th and Final installment of my "Planning for " series.

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In this section, I describe how to plan products that build accountability and reflect authentic practices in !

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In case you didn’t know, provides up to $1000 per school in materials supporting .

It only takes me a couple hours to fill out their product selection and protocols, but we stretch these resources as far as they can go!

My Curriculum outline for my HS Biotech II class this next fall.

I started using Jon Bergman’s classroom curriculum outline model during the pandemic, and now it’s my favorite way to look at a semester!

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Mind maps are one of my favorite ways for both myself and my students to synthesize an understanding of a really complex topic and start the brainstorming process.

This is my I’m using to plan for our unit on this next semester!

Google Scholar is an invaluable resource for teaching research methods to students.

I try to incorporate peer reviewed articles about content I’m teaching as often as I can, and generally use them in place of actual text books.

The earlier we can expose students to this type of literature, the better. Even if it’s just taking pieces of it, students need to learn how to extract specific pieces of information from research. By using these in place of text books, we are giving students an important STEM job skill and teaching science content through the eyes of the scientists who study it.

I love using these for my curricula. While I can generally find what I need on Google Scholar, I’m limited in the articles I can access without an institutional account.

Can we all agree that research should be free?