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Bringing Back Our Bayou Chico: Using the Universal Design for Learning framework to support all learners
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Bringing Back Our Bayou Chico: Using the Universal Design for Learning framework to support all learners

Jennifer Mesa
Science and children, Vol.55(5), pp.35-41
2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2505/4/sc18_055_05_35

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Mesa describes how to use the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to integrate strategies to reduce potential learning barriers and support the learning of students with disabilities in a 5E unit targeting the Next Generation Science Standards performance expectation 5-ESS3-1, obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth's resources and environment (NGSS Lead States 2013). In the unit, students explore how the city and community have worked together to improve the water quality and biodiversity of the Bayou Chico watershed in Pensacola FL, though inquiry activities, class discussions, reading and writing tasks, and a group research project.

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