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  UDL Science Notebooks and Activity-Based Science Learning

  

  G. Rappolt-Schlichtmann, et al., 2013

  Science notebooks can play a critical role in activity-based science learning, but the tasks of recording, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data create barriers that impede science learning for many students. This study (a) assessed ...

• SNUDLE: Scaling an Inclusive Solution to Sensemaking in Science

  

  The goal of this project was to create a suite of implementation tools and professional learning resources for scaled and effective use of CAST’s evidence-based Science Notebook in a Universal Design for Learning Environment (SNUDLE).

• CAST Awarded $2.5 Million to Develop Science Resources

  

  Thursday, July 30, 2015

  CAST has received a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs to scale the use of digital science notebooks in grades 4 through 6.

• SNUDLE: Student Efficacy Trial

  

  Building on the positive outcomes from the prior SNUDLE efficacy trial, our UDL science notebook was used by students across the United States.

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  CAST Science Writer: A Grades 7-12 Tool for Report Writing

  S. Reed & P. Coyne, 2013

  Stacey Reed, a 7th grade science teacher, and Peggy Coyne, a CAST research scientist, describe CAST Science Writer, a free interactive web-based instructional tool to support students’ writing scientific reports. Based on the framework ...

• Designing for Productive Struggle in Informal Science Learning

  

  We're exploring how informal science learning experiences can support science museum visitors' engagement in "productive struggle” — learning challenges that are exhilarating, challenging, intensive, and fruitful. 

• Jess Gropen

  

  Senior Research Scientist

  Dr. Jess Gropen’s research on executive function and conceptual change not only contributes to contemporary research in cognitive science on the development of mathematical and scientific thinking in early childhood, but also offers effective strategies to close STEM learning opportunity gaps for children from low-income communities. ...

• CAST Comments on NAEP Science Framework

  

  Monday, October 18, 2021

  Read our letter to the National Assessment Governing Board urging them to include UDL principles when updating the National Assessment of Education Progress science framework.

• CAST Science Writer

  

  CAST Science Writer guided students through the science report-writing process. The UDL-supported tool provided myriad opportunities for practice — a critical element to successful reading or writing strategy instruction.

• RAISE: Science Education for Incarcerated Youth

  

  Project RAISE applies Universal Design for Learning principles to science curriculum in order to make it more accessible, engaging, and effective for diverse learners experiencing incarceration.