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One of the most powerful shifts I’ve made in my teaching is seeing student explanations not as an “end-of-unit assignment,” but as something that grows—little by little—throughout an investigation. Ambitious Science Teaching reminds us that kids need structured opportunities to rehearse, sketch, talk, and revise before they’re ever asked to put a polished explanation on paper. Explanations are not a one-shot event. They are built, rehearsed, and stretched over time. Step 1: P

It’s easy to think of science as a checklist item: grab an activity, squeeze it into a single lesson, and move on. But science isn’t...

When we think about science representations in the early grades, we often picture drawings, models, graphs, or writing. My advisor,...

Real science is messy, curious, and hands-on—and that’s exactly what elementary investigations should look like.

One of my favorite parts of teaching science is seeing what kids already know  (and think they know!) about the world. Every student...