Ep 11: Looking for the Silver Lining in Remote Learning

09/14/20 • 28 min

Ask Matt - NGSS science education advice from an expert

In this episode, Eugene and Matt try to look past some of the immediate challenges that all teachers are facing for some benefits and new opportunities. What can we learn about education from this experience, what exemplars have we witnessed of success, and what happens when the vaccine comes and things return to ‘normal’? Can we take some of what we’ve learned during this odd year to improve education?

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Ep 10: Starting Fall Remotely

In this episode, Eugene and Matt explore some of the challenges teachers are facing right now as they start a new term teaching remotely, and how they might continue to emphasize a coherent focus around science learning and NGSS while students are learning at home. Eugene and Matt discuss synchronous versus asynchronous methods and share some insights they had while developing a remote learning program for Green Ninja in the summer.
Resources mentioned in this episode:

Sample of Grade 8 Unit 1 Chapter 1 Student Slide Deck
- https://bit.ly/3lREZqn
Sign up for a guest access account
- https://app.greenninja.org/registration
Green Ninja's Overview of Remote Learning Program video
- https://greenninja.org/Green_Ninja_Show/118
Youth Sustainability Challenge
- https://www.climateyouthambassadors.org/climate-challenge

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Ep 12: Teaching Alongside a Climate Crisis

In this episode, we find ourselves engulfed in some of the worst weather and air quality that we have seen in the western states. Here is what was on the front page of the LA Times reports two weekends ago in big letters: “California’s Climate Apocalypse — Fires, heat, air pollution: The calamity is no longer in the future — it’s here, now.” Eugene and Matt spend all of this episode digging into the science of our recent experience but also looking for short-term and long-term educational opportunities to use this reality to help students cope and hopefully thrive in this new world.
Resources mentioned in this episode: