If a video is fake how can we tell? If it is real how can we defend a claim - what evidence do we need? Here we use a virtual tool - a Google Form - so students can share their thinking with you, support the development of claims and provide a model template to support students.

The beekeeper forgot to put the frame in his hive, so the bees just freestyled, building a structure that would best handle temperature and ventilation. As students think about bees, they start to wonder about the connection between the structure and function of a hive and identify what we need to learn more about to start making sense of the complex work of bees.

Children love talking and reading science with people in their community. - they are excited by the world around them. This activity is scaffolded to support students as they describe their thinking about an everyday phenomenon (ice melting) and prepare to share their ideas about investigating different materials with others.

What happens when you place M&M’s in any dish and add a little warm water? This resource supports students as they organize their thinking about this phenomenon and prepare to share their initial explanations for why this happened.