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    • MBI template
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    • Stage descriptions
      • Planning for engagement with important science ideas
      • Eliciting ideas about the phenomenon
      • Negotiating ideas and evidence through tasks
      • Building consensus
      • Establishing credibility
    • Published units
    • How to use the template
  • Support
    • Assessing MBI
    • Equity & social justice
    • Explanations
    • Ideas as resources
    • Identifying science ideas
    • Models and modeling
    • Openers and closures
    • Peer review
    • Phenomena and driving questions
    • Productive talk
    • Purposeful tasks and lesson outlines
    • Public records
    • Putting ideas on the table
    • Share out sessions
    • Teaching MBI remotely
    • Unpacking the standards
  • Phenomena ideas
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    • Physical sciences
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Model-based inquiry
  • Home
  • What is MBI?
    • Stages of MBI
    • Supporting research
  • Template
    • MBI template
    • Example units
    • Stage descriptions
      • Planning for engagement with important science ideas
      • Eliciting ideas about the phenomenon
      • Negotiating ideas and evidence through tasks
      • Building consensus
      • Establishing credibility
    • Published units
    • How to use the template
  • Support
    • Assessing MBI
    • Equity & social justice
    • Explanations
    • Ideas as resources
    • Identifying science ideas
    • Models and modeling
    • Openers and closures
    • Peer review
    • Phenomena and driving questions
    • Productive talk
    • Purposeful tasks and lesson outlines
    • Public records
    • Putting ideas on the table
    • Share out sessions
    • Teaching MBI remotely
    • Unpacking the standards
  • Phenomena ideas
    • Life Sciences
    • Earth and space sciences
    • Physical sciences
  • Additional resources
  • About
  • More
    • Home
    • What is MBI?
      • Stages of MBI
      • Supporting research
    • Template
      • MBI template
      • Example units
      • Stage descriptions
        • Planning for engagement with important science ideas
        • Eliciting ideas about the phenomenon
        • Negotiating ideas and evidence through tasks
        • Building consensus
        • Establishing credibility
      • Published units
      • How to use the template
    • Support
      • Assessing MBI
      • Equity & social justice
      • Explanations
      • Ideas as resources
      • Identifying science ideas
      • Models and modeling
      • Openers and closures
      • Peer review
      • Phenomena and driving questions
      • Productive talk
      • Purposeful tasks and lesson outlines
      • Public records
      • Putting ideas on the table
      • Share out sessions
      • Teaching MBI remotely
      • Unpacking the standards
    • Phenomena ideas
      • Life Sciences
      • Earth and space sciences
      • Physical sciences
    • Additional resources
    • About

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Developing MBI Units With the Template

  • Unpacking the standards

  • Equity & social justice

  • Phenomena and driving questions

  • Explanations

  • Models and modeling

  • Identifying science ideas 

  • Purposeful tasks and lesson outlines

  • Student ideas as resources 

  • Assessing MBI

Strategies for implementing the Unit

  • Openors and Closures

  • Peer review

  • Productive talk

  • Public records

  • Putting ideas on the table

  • Share out sessions

  • Teaching MBI remotely

Designing NGSS -aligned instructional materials to support student sense-making in science classrooms
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