Science Frameworks
AST stands for this gutsy science teaching
What is ambitious science teaching?
“Say more,” “Who can revoice that?” and “Do you agree or disagree?” aren’t random phrases—they’re tools to engineer discussion.
What are talk moves?
This isn’t a “Google-in-30-seconds” question—it’s the big, arguable, keeps-coming-back inquiry that can drive an entire unit like a North Star.
What is an essential question?
Before you pour in new content, you find out what’s already in the beaker—students’ initial models, explanations, and misconceptions.
What is eliciting students' ideas?
She’s the most famous museum “side-eye” in history—this Leonardo portrait is known for a half-smile that launched a thousand postcards.
This is the first stage of Cognitive Apprenticeship
What is modeling?
In science talk moves and explanation-building, this squared scaffold names two key parts students should include when justifying a claim
What is I squared?
This is the “gravity well” of a storyline: everything in the unit keeps falling back to it as students build explanations over time.
This isn’t the “autopsy” after learning—it’s the “checkup” during learning that informs your next move.
What is formative assessment?
This annual championship game is the final showdown of the NFL season—and also America’s unofficial national holiday of commercials.
What is the super bowl?
These aren’t “lab skills” only—they include arguing from evidence and building models.
What are Science and Engineering Practices?
These are pre-planned, ready-to-use teacher prompts you can pull out mid-lesson to probe thinking, press for evidence, or re-engage students without derailing the activity
What are back-pocket questions?
Not a bedtime story: this is the coherent sequence of questions and investigations that makes each lesson feel like the next chapter in figuring something out.
What is a storyline?
Before you grade the concert, you write the sheet music: you define criteria, describe levels of quality, and make expectations visible.
What is a rubric?
These two men appear on currency, yet neither were presidents
Who is Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin?
“A.S.T.” isn’t about stars in the sky—it’s about how students’ ideas travel. Name the four stops on this learning “trip.”
What is planning for engagement with big ideas,
eliciting student thinking,
supporting changes in thinking,
pressing for evidence-based explanations?
When students stop “doing the worksheet” and start negotiating what the data mean, you’ve entered this zone.
Not the stuff students cram and forget—this is the “stick-with-you” takeaway that still makes sense long after the lab goggles come off
What is enduring understanding?
When assessment data put on a suit and become a symbol—letters, percentages, or standards marks—this is the process of turning evidence into an official report.
What is grading?
This color sits between yellow and green on the spectrum and is created by combining these two basic colors
What is chartreuse?
Not 3D glasses—this is when instruction weaves SEPs + CCCs + DCIs into one task
What is 3 dimensional learning?
Students don’t just answer—they claim, back it with evidence, and connect with reasoning.
What is CER?
In NGSS, this isn’t a classroom activity or a single test item—it’s the statement that specifies what students should be able to do to demonstrate understanding
What is a performance expectation?
This isn’t “pick C”—it’s “show me”: students model, investigate, design, argue, or explain in a way that looks like real scientific work.
What is a performance assessment?
This performer is the most watched in the history of the superbowl.
Who is Bad Bunny?