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The PhD Science TEKS Edition Blog
Access a variety of professional learning blog posts and short videos to support you during your implementation of PhD Science TEKS Edition. Check back as we’ll regularly update and add to the library.
End-of-the-Year Planning Where to Begin
Reflect on your most recent school year using PhD Science TEKS Edition and how to use your experiences to plan for and improve next year’s implementation.
Planning and Preparing for Lessons
Learn implementation strategies for preparing PhD Science TEKS Edition lessons and how to properly plan for upcoming modules, concepts, and lesson sets.
How to Boost Scientific Discourse in Your Classroom in 4 Easy Steps
Learn why scientific discourse is vital to knowledge building and introduce an easy-to-implement 4-step Discourse Process. Using a PhD Science TEKS Edition Module as an example, join us to dig into Laying the Foundation, Planning, Implementing, and Reflecting.
Materials: Friend, Not Foe!
Discover how PhD Science TEKS Edition materials kits and teacher resources support organizing, preparing, using, and storing hands-on investigation materials.
Scientific Models in the K–5 Classroom: What's the Buzz?
Sure, using models is crucial to students building knowledge. But why? This month, we flip the "I do, we do, you do" method up-side-down. Check out this video to explore the what, why, and how of developing and using models in the K–5 science classroom.
Using Anchor Charts and Models to Drive Student Learning
Dive into these two PhD Science TEKS Edition anchor visuals to you learn each of their components and how to develop them through facilitating collaborative student discourse during instruction.
Investigations: How Do They Help Build Knowledge
Experience how PhD Science TEKS Edition uses hands-on investigations at each grade level to foster a student-driven classroom and help students build scientific knowledge to explain a module’s anchor phenomenon.
Engineering: What Are the Unforeseen Benefits
Learn the differences between science and engineering and experience how PhD Science TEKS Edition uses engineering activities to build student knowledge and create a strong classroom community.
Authentic Assessments: How Do They Help Identify Scientific Knowledge and Skills Students Have Gained
Assessing student progress is key for student development and teacher planning. PhD Science®TEKS Edition uses the TEKS and phenomena-based tasks to assess students.
What is the Driving Question Board and How Does it Impact Learning in a Student-Driven Classroom?
Explore the driving question board as a tool to organize student questions, increase student engagement, highlight connections between concepts, and call attention to the enduring knowledge pursued by students.
Siloed No More! An Inside Look at Cross-Curricular Connections in PhD Science TEKS Edition
We know that organic learning opportunities are not siloed into content areas. To achieve our goal, students must read, write, speak, listen, observe, and analyze. All these practices inherently provide opportunities to grow knowledge and skills in English Language Arts, mathematics, social studies, and history.
A Birds Eye View: Knowledge Building Across Grade Levels
Over the course of a school year, students are doing more than just building knowledge across modules. Students are simultaneously building on knowledge from previous grade levels as well as laying the foundation for future grade levels. This month, we'll discuss how PhD Science TEKS Edition creates a coherent storyline across grade levels K–5.
Accessible Terminology: How Do You Make Science Terms Stick?
Learn how terminology helps build a student’s conceptual understanding of science and the instructional methods and learning routines inherent in PhD Science TEKS Edition that provide students with multi-modal entry points to these new science terms.
The Universal Design for Learning or UDL - It's What Everyone is Talking About
PhD Science TEKS Edition believes that knowledge-building curricula unlock the greatness in every student. We honor students’ curiosity with opportunities for them to make sense of the world around them and to build knowledge through rich content that is designed to meet every learner’s needs.
