Making Curricula Maximally Accessible for Busy Teachers

Guided by outstanding teachers, the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) presents curricula as easy-to-use “Story Shorts,” each in the form of an overview table that concisely summarizes a week or two of lessons. 

The first page from one such table is shown below; each single-day activity very briefly describes the question being addressed, what students do, and what students will uncover. Clicking on any activity takes the reader to a page with the student worksheet for that day, plus teacher notes and slides.

Sustainable Solutions

Click here for the student worksheet for Activity 3 from the Evaluating the Evidence for Climate Change Story Short, which focuses on the question “What is causing global warming” using a PhET simulation.

Click here for the Teacher Instructions for this same Activity.  

Click on the image below to access NCSE’s growing set of Story Shorts, to be posted in the three categories of Climate Change, Evolution, and Nature of Science:

 Climate Change Story Shorts