MBER Essentials

Welcome to MBER Essentials

The MBER Essentials are a collection of helpful tools, strategies, and resources designed to help you, the teacher, gain a deeper insight into the nuances of the Model-Based Educational Resource. The ideas presented here are designed to help you understand what changes in thought and action will help you and your students transition to a model-based classroom.

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Guides and Resources

We've thought of a number of ways to support your use of the curriculum, including content supports, a repository for community-sourced assessments, examples of student work, a guide to the equipment needed and some information for administrators including how The Living Earth aligns to the NGSS.

Looking for something? You'll probably find it in here. But if you cannot, please let us know.

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Understanding MBER Living Earth

Our Model-Based Educational Resource (MBER) centers around a commitment to provide teachers and students with a coherent, year-long exploration of earth science-integrated biology.

Follow this link to explore design elements, essential information to help you get started in understanding our commitment to supporting sensemaking and implementing the approach in your own classroom.

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Teacher Toolkit

MBER designers and teachers have assembled a variety of practices and resources over the years that are designed to bring modeling with kids to life in the classroom. Teacher notes in the slides for each unit will call on you to become familiar with and to use these various tools.

Herein you'll find the tools, best practices and integral protocols you need to teach using MBER. This is your central resource for understanding what they are and how to use them.

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