1 The OpenSciEd B.5 Common Ancestry & Speciation high school unit is anchored by the unusual sightings of polar, brown, and black bears in Wapusk National Park. Students investigate why this is so uncommon, consider what this means for the bears as the Arctic warms, and what role humans should play in helping the bears. The unit was awarded the NGSS Design Badge by NextGenScience’s Peer Review Panel. See the free unit and the corresponding EQuIP Rubric for Science evaluation report here.
2 To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Board on Science Education (BOSE), a panel of teachers shared how the vision of A Framework for K-12 Science Education is informing their classrooms and their students' learning experiences. Watch the BOSE video here.