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The Scientific Thinking for All: A Toolkit is a six-unit curriculum for 14–18-year-old students designed to prepare high school students for the challenges and opportunities ahead with a toolkit of cognitive strategies. By learning to view the world scientifically, students will develop skills in reasoning and collaborating, equipping them to deal with the challenges of the 21st century.
The Scientific Thinking for All: A Toolkit curriculum is a high school adaptation of the University of California, Berkeley, “Big Ideas” course titled Sense and Sensibility and Science. It was developed by professors Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell, and Robert MacCoun and represents a collaboration among physics, philosophy, and psychology. Scientific Thinking for All: A Toolkit was developed by curriculum developers and researchers at The Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California. The initiative is a cooperation between Nobel Prize Outreach (NPO) and Saul Perlmutter. This work is supported by a consortium of funders including Kenneth C. Griffin, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation.
CRISPR is a powerful gene editing tool that has a myriad of potential applications from curing sickle cell disease to modifying crops to resist specific diseases. However, many ethical considerations are also part of the scientific debate on when and how CRISPR should be used. The Power of CRISPR resources help to explain how CRISPR works, as well as some of the applications and potential ethical considerations being raised as this technique becomes more widespread in the field of biotechnology.
The Lawrence’s Exploring Biotechnology program introduces middle schoolers to the powerful and locally relevant field of biotechnology.
All BEETLES (Better Environmental Education, Teaching, Learning & Expertise Sharing) resources are based on current research and understandings about how people learn, and tested by dozens of programs in diverse settings all over the country (and beyond!). Although BEETLES materials have been designed for residential outdoor science schools, they’ve been snatched up and used successfully in a wide variety of outdoor science education settings.
MARE: Marine Activities, Resources & Education is a program based at the University of California, Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science that seeks to increase literacy in ocean sciences through informal and formal education initiatives.
OBIS is an outdoor program that offers young people fun and challenging opportunities to investigate ecological relationships in their local environment.
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are based on the premise that the purpose of learning science is to help students understand the natural world, solve problems, improve their lives and communities, and make the world a better place. Environmental Literacy is deeply embedded throughout NGSS and should be deeply embedded throughout your science curriculum, too.