UtSTA 2024: Out-Of-This-World Science Teaching

Determining the most essential standards is the most important part of science storytelling. If you are to teach your students about science you first need to know what you are teaching, and what proficiency looks like on that skill. From there you can design lessons and activities that are inquiry-based and reflective allowing students to implement the CCCs and SEP during instruction and assessment. Once clarity is reached students understand what they need to know, and all the teacher has to do then is facilitate the understanding. The story line does the rest of the work. This approach also makes grading and lesson planning simplified and less vague.  In this multi-grade-level workshop I will focus the storytelling on 7th grade science units in 7.2 and 7.1, but the information involved is applicable for any upper-elementary and/or middle school classroom.