Science Literacy for Multilingual Learners

Welcome to SEMILLAS

SEMILLAS is a climate change education initiative that partners with science, social studies, and TESOL/ESOL teachers to engage youth in science learning rooted in local, familial, and multilingual contexts.

Collaborative

Place-based

Multilingual

Community-based

Pedagogical Model

Design Principles for Climate and Science Literacy

The SEMILLAS pedagogical model engages youth, including multilingual learners, in action-oriented learning experiences embedded in local, familial, and multilingual contexts, utilizing placemaking and futures-thinking pedagogies in science and climate change education.

SEMILLAS pedagogical model showing the project's design principles

Science learning rooted in language, culture, and place.

SEMILLAS supports multilingual learners by creating place-based science experiences that connect school, family, research, and community.

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