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An open-access professional learning resource collection co-designed by educators & researchers to help practitioners learn about #SciEd #ClimateChangeEd #NGSS #STEM

Site: https://stemteachingtools.org
Editor: @philipbell.bsky.social
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NEW RESOURCE: The current administration took down many federal #EnvironmentalJustice & #ClimateJustice databases.

Our new @stemteachingtool.bsky.social lifts up various efforts that have republished those vital data & visualization tools:

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/106

#SciEd #TeachClimate
Screenshot of the new STEM Teaching Tool #106 linked in the post. The title is Defending and Leveraging Public Climate & Environmental Justice Data (DRAFT). The image is a black computer error screen that reads: Hmm. We're having trouble finding that site. We can't connect to the server at nca2023.globalchange.gov. If you entered the right address, you can: • Try again later • Check your network connection • Check that Firefox has permission to access the web (you might be connected but behind a firewall) With a button that reads Try Again
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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stemteachingtools.org/brief/55 #MoreThanNGSS
What we choose to teach and include is how ideologies are reproduced and reified.
Why it is crucial to make cultural diversity visible in STEM education : StemTeachingTools (en-US)
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October 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Love using @stemteachingtool.bsky.social resources. Especially one that states, ""One way that White Supremacy, patriarchy, and late stage capitalism is reinforced in education is by focusing STEM storylines and instructional examples on socially dominant and resource consumption-obsessed efforts.”
October 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS

The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing.

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104
STEM Teaching Tool #104 Watch Your Language! Because Words Help Create Socio-Ecological Worlds Background image includes a range of words of varying sizes and colors including: Rights of Nature, Regenerate, Climate Crisis, Relationally, Just Transition, Degrowth, Indigenous Language Revitalization, Overburden, Kin, and others.
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS #STEAM

The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published another NEW TOOL. This one shows how to use ART PEDAGOGIES as a powerful platform for students to learn about and take action on #ClimateJustice and #EnvironmentalJustice!

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/105
STEM Teaching Tool #105 Creating Art to Understand and Promote Climate and Environmental Justice In the background is a piece of artwork called “Life is a window of vulnerability” by Nancy Price showing a hand drawn bird and a patterned sunflower collage in orange and black.
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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At the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) meeting in Minneapolis, our @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team from UW Seattle put on 13 sessions on equity & justice-focused approaches to #SciEd & #ClimateChange ed

All slides & resources are available here:
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STEM Teaching Tools @ NSTA Minneapolis | November 13-15, 2025 All sessions held in the Minneapolis Convention Center - 102 A Thursday, November 13 8:00-9:00 AM: Climate Justice Overview: Priority Areas and Educational Approaches 12:30-2:00 PM: Adapting OpenSciEd Curriculum to Focus on Climate Justice, Local Solutions, and Issues of Indigenous Self-Determination 2:20-3:20 PM: Engaging Students in Talking About Indigenous Sovereignty and Climate Systems 3:40-4:40 PM: Implementing Climate Learning Across Education Systems Friday, November 14 8:00-9:00 AM: Supporting Equity and Justice Through Science Instruction: The Road Traveled and the One Ahead 9:20-10:20 AM: Youth As Climate and Environmental Scientists: Collecting, Analyzing, and Reporting on Local Community Climate and Environmental Justice Data 10:40-12:10 PM: Get Your Students Outside to Learn Science! 1:00-2:30 PM: Supporting Youths' Climate Emotions as Authentic Dimensions of Sensemaking 2:40-3:40 PM: Using Art Pedagogy in Science Class to Teach Climate Justice 4:00-5:00 PM: Designing Learning for Climate Action Saturday, November 15 8:30-10:00 AM: Supporting All Students in Making Sense of Phenomenon By Building All of Their Intellectual Resources 10:20-11:20 AM: Climate Learning Share-a-Thon! 11:40 AM-12:40 PM: Core Practices that Center Justice in Ambitious Teaching Visit stemteachingtools.org for more than 100 resources on justice-centered science and climate education!
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Our @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team & collaborators ran 13 sessions on equitable #SciEd & #ClimateChange Ed at the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) Meeting in NOLA.

All slides & resources are open-access. Please feel free to use & share them!

🌿 stemteachingtools.org/news/2024/ns...
STEM Teaching Tools @ NSTA New Orleans | November 6-9, 2024 All sessions held in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 276 Thursday, November 7 8:00-9:00 AM: Climate Justice Overview: Priority Areas and Educational Approaches 1:00-2:00 PM: Teaching about the Intersections of Biology, Race, and Racism: Strategies, Curriculum Resources, and Research 2:20-3:20 PM: Organizing Small Group Classroom Talk to Hear All Students' Ideas: Equity-focused 3D Formative Assessment Through Talk 3:40-4:40 PM: How to Adapt Instructional Materials to Focus on Climate Justice (Physics) Friday, November 8 8:00-9:00 AM: Engaging in Climate Science Education Through Connections to Everyday Life, Equity, and Justice 9:20-10:20 AM: Supporting Equity and Justice Through Science Instruction: The Road Traveled and the One Ahead 10:40-11:40 AM: Centering Justice in Ambitious Teaching: Sharing Core Practices 1:20-2:20 PM: What Questions Do You Have About Teaching Climate Change? 2:40-3:40 PM: Making Science Instruction Compelling for All Students: How to Integrate the Cultural Lives of Your Students into Your Teaching 4:00-5:00 PM: Get Your Students Outside to Learn Science! Saturday, November 9 10:20-11:20 AM: Supporting All Students in Making Sense of Phenomena By Building All of Their Intellectual Resources 11:40 AM-12:40 PM: Analyzing Formative Assessment Responses to Surface and Respond to a Range of Student Thinking about Science Concepts 1:00-2:00 PM: How to Design Justice-Focused 3D Assessments in Science Visit stemteachingtools.org for more than 100 resources on justice-centered science and climate education! STEMTeachingTools.org Free Teacher Learning Resources to Support NGSS Implementation What Are They? The National Research Council's A Framework for X-12 Science Education and the resulting Next Generation Science Standards (NCSS) represent a new vision to help all students understand the natural and built world. As educators realize this new vision, many problems of practice come up. STEM Teaching Tools are co-authored by teachers and researchers to illuminate these issues and give advice about how to accomplish specific pieces of the NGSS. The resources are short. direct. easily shareable, and offer links to other useful tools. WHY THEY MATTER TO YOU Teachers need tools to reflect on how their teaching aligns with the NGSS & NRC Framework vision These teacher learning resources have been designed to be easily shared with others. District staff & PD providers can use these tools in professional development to support implementation of the new vision. Schoolleaders can use the tools to understand crucial aspects of the new vision for K-12 science education and then implement plans to support teachers' professional growth. FUNDED BY THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION THROUGH THE ACESSE PROJECT (COSSS. ORG/ACESSE) Picture of a round conference table with about 20 different piles of STEM Teaching Tools on them.
November 19, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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As with all of our @STEMTeachTools , you can get to the more polished PDF formatted version from the landing page of the resource. It is a great format to share with others! #NGSSchat #NGSS #SciEd

Direct Link to the PDF Version:
➡️ stemteachingtools.org/assets/lands...
Picture of the front page of the linked resource: https://stemteachingtools.org/brief/99 Picture of the front page of the linked resource: https://stemteachingtools.org/brief/99
November 24, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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Thought I would share some of the resources created for supporting #climatechangeed by the @stemteachingtool.bsky.social

So here is a great resource for sharing with educational leaders, colleagues, and parents

stemteachingtools.org/brief/12

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Scientific literacy involves understanding global climate change & what people can do about it : StemTeachingTools (en-US)
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November 24, 2024 at 1:52 AM
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Our @waclimetime.bsky.social network is in its 7th year supporting WA teachers in learning to #TeachClimate

@drdeblmorrison.bsky.social & Dr. Kelsie Fowler worked with our network to publish 7 articles describing the work with tens of thousands of educators.

➡️ www.tandfonline.com/toc/ucsl20/6...
Cover page to the Connected Science Learning Special Issue (July / August 2024, Volume 6, Issue 4) Picture shows two pre-teen youth planting a tree on a sunny day with a pine tree forest in the background. One is digging the hole with a small, red shovel. The other is holding the sapling to be planted. In the corner is the logo of NSTA - National Science Teaching Association.
November 25, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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PLS RP #SciEd #NGSS #TeachClimate

Do you teach MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS who have experienced #ClimateChange? We just published a new @stemteachingtool.bsky.social on how to leverage student & community expertise in #ClimateJustice instruction with a focus on language!

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/99
STEM Teaching Tool #99 Picture of elementary school children with bright clothing—red, blue, orange—in a classroom. Three have turned to look at the camera.
November 24, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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Hello World!

Over the past decade, a community of educators and researchers developed this open-access collection of professional learning resources for #SciEd #NGSS #ClimateChangeEd & #EnvironmentalEd. It is an #EquityFirst approach. Use and share them as you would like!

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Picture of six STEMTeachingTools.org practice briefs with embedded pictures of young people doing engineering, talking in a forest, and plunging their arms into the wet sand on a beach. The beach practice brief is titled "Getting their hands dirty: Engaging learners in authentic science practices outside of the classroom."
November 19, 2024 at 5:43 PM