Making Sense of SCIENCE

Making Sense of SCIENCE Making Sense of SCIENCE (MSS) offers an approach to teacher learning that focuses on science underst All rights reserved.

WestEd's Making Sense of SCIENCE project supports teacher educators, staff developers, curriculum specialists, and others who work with preservice and/or practicing science teachers to strengthen their content knowledge, pedagogical reasoning, and instructional skill. In short, Making Sense of SCIENCE courses help teachers:

• Learn major concepts of K–8 science
• Examine how children make sense of those concepts
• Analyze and improve their teaching practice
• Learn ways to support science learning through literacy

This approach develops teachers' expertise through inquiry science learning, collaborative discussion, and an extensive focus on reading, writing, and talking in science.

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Making Sense of SCIENCE is a WestEd project. WestEd is a research, development, and service agency promoting excellence, achieving equity, and improving learning for children, youth, and adults. Since its inception in 1966, WestEd has been a leader in moving research into practice. Learn more online: http://www.WestEd.org/

This site and its contents copyright WestEd 2014.

The MSS team is wrapping up an amazing week of co-facilitating with our NASA PLACES team as we led our virtual Design In...
10/31/2025

The MSS team is wrapping up an amazing week of co-facilitating with our NASA PLACES team as we led our virtual Design Institute. This was the culminating event for our grant that brought together incredible NASA Science Activation partners for several days of learning, collaboration, and designing. Together, we explored how place-based, data-rich teaching and learning can connect teachers' and students' locally relevant experiences to global Earth systems, using NASA data and resources to deepen understanding and spark curiosity.

Looking forward to more professional learning opportunities to work alongside educators as they infuse a place-based approach into their classroom data literacy instruction.

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