Support Resources for Teaching with MBI

Build a strong foundation for your unit by unpacking standards, identifying core ideas, and designing purposeful sequences.

• Unpacking the Standards
  Clarify what students need to know and be able to do.

• Equity & Social Justice
  Strategies for ensuring inclusive and justice-oriented learning environments.

• Identifying Science Ideas
  Focus your unit on key disciplinary concepts.

• Phenomena and Driving Questions
  Select compelling phenomena and craft student-driven questions.

• Purposeful Tasks and Lesson Outlines
  Sequence instruction to help students build and revise ideas over time.

• Assessing MBI
  Approaches for formative and summative assessment in MBI units.

Support students in developing and refining their ideas through modeling, discussion, and collaboration.

• Explanation
  Guide students in constructing science-based explanations.

• Facilitating Productive Discussions
  Structure classroom talk for sensemaking and consensus.

• Models and Modeling
  Tools for introducing and supporting student modeling.

• Peer Review
  Help students give and receive meaningful feedback.

• Public Records
  Make student thinking visible to support collective knowledge-building.

• Share Out Sessions
  Celebrate and reflect on group progress and thinking.

• Student Ideas as Resources
  Position students as capable thinkers and contributors.