by MMSLN | Sep 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
By Jeanine Wilson, M.Ed. I have taught science at both the elementary and middle school levels, and I know firsthand that teaching elementary science can be hard. Teachers balance literacy, mathematics, interventions, assessments, behavior, social-emotional needs, and...
by MMSLN | Apr 30, 2026 | Disciplinary Literacy, Science
This Learning Point from the Michigan Assessment Consortium explores how disciplinary literacy, science and engineering practices, and formative assessment work together in the secondary science classroom. What students need to think like scientists Every time we...
by MMSLN | Apr 1, 2025 | Disciplinary Literacy, Modeling in Science, Science
One goal of school science learning is to apprentice students into the discipline. As teachers, we engage students in the multiple ways they can leverage the discourses of science so they can understand the ways science explanations can be structured and communicated...