On December 21, 2013, the FOSS family suffered a heavy loss. Dr. Terry Shaw died after a courageous six-year struggle with cancer.
A Framework for K-12 Science Education identifies three dimensions of the science education enterprise—three instructional/conceptual arenas in which our students should be facile and competent.
While you are together with your class investigating the activities in FOSS modules, students will often come up with "I wonder" questions. Of course, teachers wonder things too.
Research has shown that frequent formative assessment is a key to improved learning (Black and Wiliam, 1998; Wiliam, 2011). But developing prompts, analyzing test data, and developing next-step strategies can take a significant amount of time. Enter FOSSmap.
In a wonderful blend of art and science, nationally syndicated Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot depicts her character Alix, a young girl and "budding" scientist, innocently releasing an invasive crayfish into the wild.
Over the lifespan of GEMS-Net, the program has coordinated opportunities for more than 70 University of Rhode Island and community scientists and engineers to collaborate with teachers and schools.
It used to be fairly rare to have students with food allergies, but now it is not uncommon to have multiple students with food allergies in a single class and for those allergies to possibly be severe.
The Bayview Zone of San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) consists of seven schools that include approximately 1,800 pre-K–12 students—schools that serve the highest concentrations of African-American students in the district.