Social Justice and Culturally Sustaining and Responsive Pedagogies for Science Education

The Citizen Science Lab [Thank you Rowan Terra]
Teaching Climate Justice Booklet from Rethinking Schools
“We’re Living the Climate Emergency”: Native Hawaiian Kaniela Ing on Fires, Colonialism & Banyan Tree Democracy Now
Teach for Climate Justice: A Vision for Transforming Education book by Tom Roderick
Why social emotional learning is critical for teaching climate justice article by KQED Mindshift
SAGE Open Microsite on Climate Change
STEM to the Future
Science Educators for Equity Diversity and Social Justice
Science Educators for Equity Diversity and Social Justice [Thank you Dr. Sarah Tolbert and Renée Agatsuma]
Celebrate 50 Years of PhDs: Cite Black Women+ in Physics and Astronomy Bibliography by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein [Thank you Dr. Nicole Fletcher]
Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research [Thank you Dr. Nicole Fletcher]
National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity STEM equity page [Thank you Dr. Nicole Fletcher]
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Science: A Reading List by Priya Shukla [Thank you Dave Gorski]
The Underrepresentation Curriculum Project [Thank you @danny_doucette]
Bioneers Revolution from the Heart of Nature
Investigating Environmental Racism in the High School Biology Classroom NSTA [Thank you Dr. Andy Weatherhead]
Teaching STEM In Ways that Respect and Build Upon Indigenous Peoples' Rights [Thank you Dr. Andy Weatherhead]
Science Education Partnership Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center [Thank you Renée Agatsuma]
Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine
A People’s Curriculum for the Earth: Teaching Climate Change and the Environmental Crisis book from Rethinking Schools
Water Quality Mobile App
Science in the City book by Dr. Bryan Brown
Culturally Responsive Education STEM High School Toolkit [Thank you Dr. Glenn Waddell]
Teaching Science for Social Justice by Angela Calabrese Barton [thank you Dr. Rabiah Harris]
STEM Rich Maker Learning: Designing for Equity with Youth of Color by Drs. Angela Calabrese Barton and Edna Tan
Race After Technology Abolitionist Tools for The New Jim Code book by Dr. Ruha Benjamin
Captivating Technology Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life book edited by Dr. Ruha Benjamin
People's Science book by Dr. Ruha Benjamin
OpenSciEd COVID Health Equity Units
BLM at School Curricular Resources [Curated by Dr. Chris Rogers. Click on lesson plans to see math and science.]

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Note

My area is mathematics education, but I'm aware of a few social justice and culturally relevant science education resources, so I thought I'd share them here. I'm sure a science educator would have more suggestions! I first posted a list of Social Justice Math (and Science) Resources for K-12 Teachers in June 2020 at https://bit.ly/SJMathScienceResources. This website shares that list (in a cleaner and more organized format). This is not an exhaustive list, and it is a living document. Feel free to suggest additions by emailing me at kari.kokka@unlv.edu, thank you!

This work is supported with funding from the National Science Foundation DRK-12 Program (Award #2242654). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF. COPYRIGHT © 2023 MATH SOCIAL ISSUES - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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