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Watch an upper elementary school teacher from the Academy's Teacher Institute on Science and Sustainability lead a conversation with her class to elicit explanations from her students after an experiment exploring the effects of salt on ice.

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Want to see more examples of teachers implementing Science Practices from the Next Generation Science Standards in their 3rd-5th grade classrooms? Browse below!
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Planning and Carrying Out Investigations: Testing Bridges

Allow your students to think through the design of an investigation, and learn from their plan.

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Planning and Carrying Out Investigations: Salt and Ice

Allow your students to think through the design of an investigation, and learn from their plan.

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Analyzing and Interpreting Data: Displaying Data

In this video, an educator gives her class the freedom to design the graph that works best for their data.

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Teacher Institute on Science and Sustainability

Each year, a cohort of 30 teachers begin this two-year professional development program for 3rd–5th grade teachers.

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Research in the Classroom

From 2013-2015, the Academy's Teacher Institute partnered with Stanford's SCALE program and SRI International to complete a Discovery Research K-12 project sponsored by the National Science Foundation.