This week, Dan and Sam are joined by fourth grade teacher, Patrick Conley. Patrick shares some of his experiences teaching science at the elementary school level and provides a look at the PeBLES2 project, Place-Based Learning for Elementary Science at Scale, from inside his classroom. (Check out our previous episode with Dr. Kate Cook Whitt to hear more about the research behind this project.) He shares what it was like participating in this National Science Foundation funded project as a pilot teacher, how his teaching practice shifted throughout this two-year experience, and the changes he saw in his students as they engaged with phenomena on a local level.

Resources:

• Patrick's PeBLES2 Classroom Artifacts


• PeBLES2 (Place-Based Learning for Elementary Science at Scale) - This project is funded by the National Science Foundation, grant #2009613. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.


• Maine Mathematics & Science Alliance

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• Teaching Climate Change: Fostering Understanding, Resilience, and a Commitment to Justice by Mark Windschitl


• Teaching Toward Rightful Presence in Middle School STEM by Edna Tan and Angela Calabrese Barton


• Transformative Science Teaching: A Catalyst for Justice and Sustainability by Daniel Morales-Doyle

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