Ask Matt - NGSS science education advice from an expert
Science education is going through a big transition right now as schools throughout the country have adopted the Next Generation Science Standards. These new standards represent a large shift in how science will be taught, and teachers have good questions about how these standards will affect their classrooms. Our host (Eugene Cordero - climate scientist and founder of Green Ninja - science education provider) talks with Matt d'Alessio, science education expert and author of the 2016 California Science Framework for NGSS. Matt has dedicated over 20 years of his life to science education both as a high school science teacher and a distinguished university professor. In this podcast, Eugene asks Matt various questions about science education, NGSS, and the environment in a friendly and easygoing conversational style that is designed to be helpful to teachers.
Ask Matt - NGSS science education advice from an expert
Ep 7: Supporting NGSS in your classroom
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Episode 7
In this episode, 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? They also talk about hard to have environmental conversations, and how to navigate those through a science lens.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Eugene and Matt's suggestion for responses to climate skeptical arguments
- Matt's resources on the carbon footprint of food
- His favorite resource: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10669-015-9577-y
- that has the best data in Table 4 of the electronic supplement: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1007%2Fs10669-015-9577-y/MediaObjects/10669_2015_9577_MOESM1_ESM.docx
- He found out about this paper from this news article: https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1215/Eating-lettuce-is-three-times-worse-for-climate-than-bacon-say-scientists?cmpid=FB
- Its headline was so misleading that he wrote a letter to the editor that was published: https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Readers-Respond/2015/1226/Readers-write-screening-before-gun-ownership-vegetarian-diets-are-greener
- A much more kid-friendly view of food carbon footprints: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46459714
- A more advanced view that lets you dig into the different parts of the lifecycle: http://www.foodemissions.com/foodemissions/Calculator.aspx
- Though to make this one really work, you need to convert serving size into pounds.
- His favorite resource: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10669-015-9577-y