"My students just aren't curious!" I get it - I hear it all the time, and I do agree, oftentimes middle and high school students don't seem very curious. But here's a thought: are your students "not curious" or are they just not curious about *your content*? And if it's the latter, what can we do?

Make space for "social learning" -- because that's what matters to our students. How can our content and our instruction bring in this "social experience"? How can we better connect what's relevant to our students to what needs to be the focus of our classroom?

In this episode, Nicole VanTassel shares some thoughts and strategies to capitalize on our adolescents' social drives (and desire to find their place in society!) to move their science learning forward.


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