Tools for Creating and Working With Storylines

• Using Phenomena in NGSS-designed Lessons and Units

• Planning for Teaching, Analyzing, or Designing Storylines

  • Five Questions to Guide the Development of a Classroom Culture that Supports "Figuring Out"

  • Summary of the Five Questions and Five Routines v2.1

  • Images of the Five Routines (Posters)

  • Storyline development process (graphic overview)

  • Storyline Design Tool Set v2.3 [ google doc ]

  • Storyline Tool #1: Anchoring phenomenon v2.2 [pdf / google doc]

  • Storyline Tool #2 & #3: Connected investigations v2.3 [pdf / google doc]

  • Storyline Tool #4 & #5: Problematizing & Putting Pieces Together v2.3[pdf / google doc]

• Creating & posting daily learning objectives (that don't give away the punchline for that lesson in a storyline).

• NGSS Science and Engineering Practices (Posters and Graphics)

  • Science & Engineering Practices Web [b&w / color]

  • Directions & Printables to Make a Large Classroom Poster of a Science & Engineering Practices Web

Video interview with Brian Reiser introducing phenomena and their connection to the NGSS and three-dimensional learning: