The Technology & Engineering Practices (TEPs) encompass the abilities and dispositions that are fundamental to teaching the STEELS Technology and Engineering Standards with fidelity. The TEPs help students engage with the human designed products, systems, and processes we use to satisfy our needs and wants.

Utilizes findings from one of the most extensive national P-12 STEM and CTE safety research studies to date (718 teachers across 42 states) to provide practitioner friendly safety recommendations with suggested resources. The recommendations provide implications for state education departments, professional associations, school districts/boards of education, administrators, and teachers to make data informed decisions regarding safety policies and practices to enhance STEM and CTE instruction.

Watch videos, play games, try activities, and share designs with the community. (T&E)

Provides STEL-aligned lesson plan examples for a variety of grade levels. (T&E)

Provides a wealth of real world examples to explain what’s different about practice-centered teaching and learning at all grade levels

Offers curated classroom resources, including lesson plans, book chapters, videos, simulations, and more

A guide on how to incorporate phenomena in instruction

Supports the importance of carefully chosen phenomenon that can drive student inquiry in the science classroom (an observable event)

Explains qualities of Instructional sequences based on students investigating compelling natural phenomena in science or work on meaningful design problems in engineering by engaging in the science and engineering practices

Discusses phenomena in the context of evaluating instructional materials

Explores the contexts in which teachers work – classrooms, departments, schools, organizations – and look at the conditions, structures, and resources that could support science teachers’ individual and collective learning in ways that might lead to improved outcomes for students

Provides a meaningful guide to professional development and professional learning for science education

Focuses on all the Performance Expectations, Disciplinary Core Ideas, Science and Engineering Practices, and Crosscutting Concepts

The National Assessment for Education Progress T&E Framework describes the assessment of technology and engineering literacy at grades 4, 8, and 12. (T&E)

Provides an up-to-date roadmap for educators to promote technology and engineering education program development and curriculum design, Pre-K -12. (T&E)

Provides educators with additional detail on what students should know and be able to do to meet each standard.

Assists in focusing lessons on the PA Standards.

Review lessons/units, provide feedback, provide examples/models for teachers’ use to inform development of new resources.

Allows districts and educators to analyze and select materials based on key criteria and scoring guidance.

Provides focus and evaluation of common claims by publishers.

Describes innovations and provides insight on how the innovations should appear in instructional materials.

Basis for the development of, and organization of, the PA Science, Technology & Engineering, and Environmental Literacy & Sustainability Standards.

Explores the landscape of state science standards implementation.

Focuses on selecting instructional materials aligned with the vision for science education to create high-quality learning experiences for students.

A guide to implementation of new science standards focusing on changing curricula, instruction, professional learning, and assessment aligned to the new standards.

Offers classroom resources, curriculum planning, and the change in standards.

Focuses on implementation of standards in rural communities.

Focuses on time devoted to science and engineering, tools and resources available, and teacher preparation.

Includes research for environmental education and the movement to connect children and nature. (ELS)

Offers research-based evidence (and an extensive bibliography) on the benefits of environmental education.(ELS)

Access a collection of peer reviewed articles with a focusing on the Standards for Technological and Engineering.(T&E)

Offers 3-D classroom science assessments developed by a Wisconsin work group and groups from across the country; includes a useful template for thinking out a performance task.

Offers access to high-quality scenarios developed by teacher workgroups in the Tennessee District Science Network, focusing on phenomena or problems, integration of the three dimensions to make sense of phenomena or problems, and equitable features.

Contains a nine-step process designed to help teams develop three-dimensional assessment tasks in science that connect to students’ interests, experiences, and identities.

Provides a searchable database of high quality 3-D learning for both formative and summative assessments.

Focuses on assessment tasks to determine challenges commonly found in science assessment tasks.

Focuses on classroom assessment tasks that are high quality, designed to elicit evidence of three-dimensional performances, and to provide a common set of features to demonstrate the kinds of performances expected by three-dimensional standards

Offers a new approach to capturing and communicating the complexity of summative assessment items and tasks designed for three-dimensional standards.

Includes examples of innovative assessment formats, ways to embed assessments in classroom lessons, and ideas for interpreting and using assessment information.

Develops an approach to science assessment to meet the vision of science education.