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- A storyline is a coherent sequence of lessons, in which each step is driven by students' questions that arise from their interactions with phenomena. A student's goal should always be to explain a phenomenon or solve a problem.
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A storyline provides a coherent path toward building disciplinary core idea and crosscutting concepts, piece by piece, anchored in students' own questions. What makes a storyline different from just a sequence of lessons?
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- Elementary
Check out the guidance for the steps to designing a coherent NGSS aligned storyline. Explore unpacking, identifying phenomena, and sequencing investigations to help students build science ideas, step by step.
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How can you explain highly complex things to people who know nothing about them – and make them care? By creating a powerful narrative. That’s what scientific storytelling is all about. When Sir Alexander Fleming, then still a – somewhat careless – lab technician, forgot to clear away some culture plates on a bench in his lab before leaving for a f...
As we browse through our newsfeeds, favourite online publications, and Google search results, what we look for among all those items competing for our attention is the stuff that’s relevant to us. Relevance connects content with our wants and needs. Content that makes us feel something, because it is funny, intriguing, surprising, or opening up new...
Tone
The tone of your scientific story will depend on the outlet and audience, but as a general rule: being scientifically accurate has nothing to do with being boring. To pick the right tone of voice, ask yourself how you’d like your audience to feel about your message.
Technical terms and jargon
If you encounter words and expressions that can only be understood by someone with expert knowledge in this particular field, replace them with plain English equivalents if you can. If that’s not possible, make sure you provide an explanation when first using the term.
Be concrete
If you need to talk about concepts that are abstract or difficult to grasp, help your audience to visualise them by making them concrete: use practical examples as illustrations where possible, and work with analogies and comparisons where not. Explaining how the scientific or technical topic fits into your audiences’ reality will also help to achieve this objective – by mentioning practical use cases, for instance.
Sep 14, 2020 · Framing information into a compelling story can be a useful tool to disseminate your data and share your passion for science, to make a greater impact with your research and to advance your...
- Rafael E. Luna, Rafael E. Luna
- rafael.luna@bc.edu
- 2020
Mar 24, 2020 · Storylines are more than just curriculum; they are a pedagogical method that increases students’ ownership of their learning by putting them in the driver’s seat. First, we start with a relevant anchoring phenomenon that elicits student questions about science ideas targeted in the storyline unit.
Jan 19, 2021 · Stories can be used to misrepresent science (M. Blastland et al. Nature 587, 362–364; 2020). But credible science communication and storytelling are not mutually exclusive — they can be great...
"A science storyline is a coherent sequence of lessons in which each step is driven by students' questions that arise from their interactions with phenomena. A student's goal should always be to explain a phenomenon or solve a problem.
