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One powerful instructional strategy is to select anchor phenomena or topics for #SciEd units that involve the use of science & STEM knowledge and practices as part of social justice projects.
Here are some possibilities… https://twitter.com/WmGReed/status/1290640272976744449?s=20
One powerful instructional strategy is to select anchor phenomena or topics for #SciEd units that involve the use of science & STEM knowledge and practices as part of social justice projects.
Here are some possibilities… https://twitter.com/WmGReed/status/1290640272976744449?s=20
In a recent @NSTA newsletter, @educatordeb & I shared these guiding principles for social justice centered #SciEd.
They can help focus #SciEd on political entanglements, troubled histories, human dignity & more just futures. #NGSSslowchat #NGSSchat https://twitter.com/philiplbell/status/1274545650655346694?s=20
They can help focus #SciEd on political entanglements, troubled histories, human dignity & more just futures. #NGSSslowchat #NGSSchat https://twitter.com/philiplbell/status/1274545650655346694?s=20
This #SciEd social justice project involves sensemaking & action on ecosystem restoration through dam removal. It intersects with energy production, histories of land dispossession, civics, cultural resurgence & ecosystem thriving. #NGSSslowchat #NGSSchat https://twitter.com/nwtreatytribes/status/1283865628244353025?s=20
This #SciEd social justice project involves sensemaking & action about WIDESPREAD FLOODING happening in unprecedented ways. It intersects with climate change, failing infrastructures, human health & ecosystem degradation. #NGSSslowchat #NGSSchat https://twitter.com/the_ecofeminist/status/1286979528653508611?s=20
Here's more info on this recent massive flooding event / phenomena in Nigeria… https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-53538580
The MASSIVE FLOODING currently happening in Bangladesh is another tragic example.
"The country’s latest calamity illustrates a striking inequity of our time: The people least responsible for climate change are among those most hurt by its consequences." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/climate/bangladesh-floods.html
"The country’s latest calamity illustrates a striking inequity of our time: The people least responsible for climate change are among those most hurt by its consequences." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/climate/bangladesh-floods.html
Here's satellite imagery of the flooding in Bangladesh… https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147057/intense-flooding-in-bangladesh
This #SciEd social justice project involves sensemaking & action about INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION. It relates to energy production, land dispossession, human health, capitalist development, environmental regulations & Indigenous rights. #NGSSslowchat #NGSSchat https://twitter.com/philiplbell/status/1287396846491430913?s=20
For background on this unfolding extractivist coal energy / pollution situation, you can check out this multi-faceted conversation with Diné community organizer, citizen scientist & water protector Kim Smith from Navajo Nation from the @AMR_podcast… https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/podcast/episode/4bb3fff4/healing-the-land-is-healing-ourselves
Justice work can be about cultural resurgence. The @IndigenousSTEAM program engages in social & multispecies justice work by having intergenerational Indigenous groups relate extended kinship networks to socio-ecological decisions. #NGSSslowchat #NGSSchat
https://www.nsta.org/blog/creating-science-learning-environments-which-indigenous-students-can-thrive
https://www.nsta.org/blog/creating-science-learning-environments-which-indigenous-students-can-thrive
The @IndigenousSTEAM team & collaborators have been posting awesome new resources this summer to their extensive collection of Indigenous Education Tools…
http://indigenouseducationtools.org/tt/isteam-2020-activity-materials
http://indigenouseducationtools.org/tt/isteam-2020-activity-materials
Jason Foster's #SciEd social justice unit on ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM involves a local investigation leading to political action. Ss do spatial inquiry of pollution sources, biochem analyses of impacts & evidence-based communication. #NGSSslowchat #NGSSchat
https://www.nsta.org/blog/investigating-environmental-racism-high-school-biology-classroom
https://www.nsta.org/blog/investigating-environmental-racism-high-school-biology-classroom
This social justice instructional strategy from Jordyn Frost & @SciWonderWoman describes how to layer meaningful, justice-focused phenomena into adopted #NGSS curricula—to highlight relevance & connect Ss to work of BIPOC scientists #NGSSslowchat #NGSSchat
https://www.nsta.org/blog/justice-centered-science-pedagogy-leaning-beyond-boundaries-equity-and-culturally-responsive
https://www.nsta.org/blog/justice-centered-science-pedagogy-leaning-beyond-boundaries-equity-and-culturally-responsive
I've been in #NGSS groups working to integrate the social justice framework standards from @Tolerance_org into #SciEd investigations—which seems promising! #NGSSslowchat #NGSSchat
https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/publications/social-justice-standards
There are PD modules for the four-part framework:
https://www.tolerance.org/professional-development/social-justice-standards-the-teaching-tolerance-antibias-framework
https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/publications/social-justice-standards
There are PD modules for the four-part framework:
https://www.tolerance.org/professional-development/social-justice-standards-the-teaching-tolerance-antibias-framework
