Transitioning to the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Science: Updated Mar 9th, 2016 Introduction: Many teachers from around the state are beginning to take a look at the new Oklahoma Academic Standards for Science adopted by the Oklahoma State Board of Education in March 2014 and signed into law by Governor Fallin in June of 2014. […]

In talking to science teachers from around the state, they share that many of their students struggle with constructing explanations and, in particular, with supporting the explanations with evidence.The Claims Evidence and Reasoning (CER) framework can serve as an instructional strategy to support students in constructing explanations for scientific explanations utilizing evidence. CER is a […]

Many teachers strive to provide their students with diversified classroom experiences, and many of those experiences can be categorized with Webb’s (1997) Depth of Knowledge (DOK) model employed to analyze cognitive expectations of standards, curricular activities, and assessments.The DOK level describes the kind of thinking involved in a task, not the likelihood the task will […]