The Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Guide defines phenomena (the plural of phenomenon) as naturally occurring, detectable events observable through the senses. Do you know how many times phenomena are mentioned in the Science TEKS? These grade...
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3 Reasons to Pay Attention to the Science TEKS Introduction
The new Science Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for Kindergarten through 12th grade will be implemented for the 2024-2025 school year...
Content within the new Science Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) starts in the 2024-25 school year. The new TEKS affects Kindergarten...
Free Standards-based Tasks to Explore in TPSP
The Texas Performance Standards Project (TPSP) is a Texas Education Agency (TEA) created website providing teachers across Texas with free standards...
Science Tools Within the New Science TEKS
The new Science Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for grades Kindergarten through 12th will be implemented in the 2024-2025 school year. In...
Technology Applications TEKS Changes Coming for 2024-25 School Year
In 2022, the State Board of Education (SBOE) gave final approval to the revised Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS ) for Technology...
Region 13 Engineers Week Challenge
Celebrate the 2024 Engineers Week by joining our fun Engineers Week Challenge and do some engineering design with your students! Preview some of the...
3 Key Areas of Change to the Science TEKS
Did you know Texas has brand new Science standards? The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for grades Kindergarten through 12th have been...
Every March I watch round after round of NCAA college basketball. A few inches can make the difference between a game-saving win or a loss. Players...
When I taught fourth-grade science in July 2020, I discovered the classroom textbooks had copyright dates of 1992, almost two decades before my...