Building: Maze Runner – Marble Maze Challenge
Instructions Examples of mazes that could be built at home The Engineering Design Cycle
Make: Up, Up and Away! Paper Airplanes
Paper airplanes
Plants and Animals in Your Yard
iNaturalist app, household items
Factors that Affect Population Size
Ecology, Environmental-Science, Microbiology, Cell-Biology
Build: Straw and Paper Airplane Launcher
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Early Childhood Mathematics: Findings from a professional learning pilot project
REPORT • November 2024 • by Maia Elkana & Zoe Lehmann
In 2022, WashU’s Institute for School Partnership (ISP) and a district-based Early Childhood Center formed the Early Childhood Mathematics Research Practice Partnership (ECMRPP), a two-year pilot to focus specifically on early mathematics learning.
Learning to Be an Ambitious Science Teacher
JOURNAL ARTICLE • September 2024 • by Alex Gerber & Heather Milo
This article in Science and Children co-authored by ISP Instructional Specialists outlines a professional learning model for supporting teachers implementing ambitious science teaching strategies in their classrooms.
Equitable from the Start: Strategies for making science relevant, engaging and accessible
JOURNAL ARTICLE • January 2024 • by Rachel Ruggirello & Alison Brockhouse
Framework for designing equitable and inclusive science lessons and share an example of how this framework was applied to the launch of a fifth grade science unit, specifying the instructional strategies used to provide students with a meaningful, relevant, and engaging learning experience.
Leveraging strengths of a research‑practice partnership to support equitable science teaching during the COVID‑19 pandemic
JOURNAL ARTICLE • November 2023 • by Rachel Ruggirello, Alison Brockhouse, & Maia Elkana
Article in the Cultural Studies of Science Education journal studying the use of a research-practice partnership (RPP) approach to supporting equitable K-5 science education during the COVID-19 pandemic.