Use these resources to integrate the nature and process of science into your teaching at grades 6-8.

Know your students

What are 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students’ abilities and how will this impact your teaching?

• Nature of the middle school student
• Implications for instruction
• Implications for student learning about the nature and process of science

Getting started

• Tips for the teacher: General approaches for emphasizing what science is and how it works
• Sample starting activities: Suggestions for kicking off the school year right
• Introducing the Science Flowchart

Integrating the nature and process of science

• Identifying your learning goals
• Modifying your current lessons
• Search for lessons
• Sample of a modified lesson
• Teaching tools: Visual/conceptual aids and strategies for using them