By Sydney Johnson, EdSource, June 10, 2020
California schools were already undergoing a transformation to the way science is taught across the state before campuses were forced to close during the coronavirus pandemic. During the last few months of school, science teachers had to use a variety of tools to keep science lessons going at a safe distance, from at-home experiments to virtual simulations.
The pandemic has forced teachers to adapt goals and lessons to a virtual setting where teachers and students no longer share the same class or lab space. And that has made it difficult for some teachers to continue teaching California’s new science standards, which put a stronger emphasis on hands-on learning.
“It’s a shame we can’t be in person to do hands-on labs,” said Robin Cooper, a seventh-grade science teacher at Albany Middle School in Alameda County. “There isn’t much out there that will be a replacement.”
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