Addressing Sustainability in the High School Biology Classroom through Socioscientific Issues

Developers of SEPUP’s Science and Global Issues high school biology program recently published an article in the journal Sustainability detailing how their recently revised curriculum is centered around sustainability-related socioscientific issues. In the article, the authors present the framework they developed and used for presenting sustainability to students, as well as the specific contexts that […]

NGSS Learning Pathways – Magnified

Each Performance Expectation comes at the end of a Learning Pathway, a sequence of activities that includes appropriate disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts. The pathway also integrates Common Core State Standards in ELA and Math. Each instructional unit bundles numerous Performance Expectations therefore an activity may be part of several […]