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Student-designed Experiments: Part 1 Building Curiosity
Student-designed Experiments: Part 1 Building Curiosity
(Tu Mar 2, 7-8:30pm Eastern Standard Time) In this workshop, we will practice a repeatable structure for introducing a topic that will be studied through scientific exploration using a remote or in-person teaching platform. We will help our students conduct a preliminary investigation at home developing interest in a particular phenomenon by generating data and […]
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Statistics for Teaching Advanced Science: Part 5 Hypothesis Testing Using a Chi-squared Analysis
Statistics for Teaching Advanced Science: Part 5 Hypothesis Testing Using a Chi-squared Analysis
(W Mar 3, 11am-12:30pm Eastern Standard Time) Parts 5-8 continue the Statistics for Science series to include the skills required in high school Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) science courses. In these workshops, we will learn how and when to use each of the most common statistical tests that are used to test […]
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: Using Debates to Teach Evidence-based Reasoning
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: Using Debates to Teach Evidence-based Reasoning
(W Mar 3, 1-2:30pm Eastern StandardTime) Debates are an exciting way to engage your students as an introduction to content, an in-depth exploration of the nuances, or an assessment of understanding. The peer interactions of this learning format motivate students to use research skills and hone communication skills. In this 1.5 hr. workshop, teachers will […]
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Standards-based Grading Series: Offering Choice Menus for Differentiated Assessment
Standards-based Grading Series: Offering Choice Menus for Differentiated Assessment
(F Mar 5, 11am-12:30pm Eastern Standard Time) Participants will be given an example of a choice menu to see how this assessment tool can be used within an online or in-person class. Assessment menus allow greater autonomy in a class as students choose the type of assignment that appeals to them or allows them to […]
Approaches to Learning: How to Build Inclusion, Differentiation, and Autonomy into Your Curriculum
Approaches to Learning: How to Build Inclusion, Differentiation, and Autonomy into Your Curriculum
(F Mar 5, 1pm-2:30pm Eastern Standard Time) Twenty-first century teaching is challenged by the fact that we are preparing students for a world that does not yet exist. When the techniques used in the classroom or the content taught in the course are dated, students are quick to acknowledge that discord and can disengage. Participants […]
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Student-designed Experiments: Part 2 Helping Students Write an Experimental Procedure
Student-designed Experiments: Part 2 Helping Students Write an Experimental Procedure
(Tu Mar 9, 7-8:30pm Eastern Standard Time) In this workshop we will pick up where Part 1 of this series left off. We begin with a list of variables our students have identified as potentially impacting a particular phenomenon they have explored. Using a think-pair-share process, we will give students the structure needed to write […]
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Statistics for Teaching Advanced Science: Part 6 Hypothesis Testing Using the Student’s t-test
Statistics for Teaching Advanced Science: Part 6 Hypothesis Testing Using the Student’s t-test
(W Mar 10, 11am-12:30pm Eastern Standard Time) Parts 5-8 continue the Statistics for Science series to include the skills required in high school Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) science courses. In these workshops, we will learn how and when to use each of the most common statistical tests that are used to test […]
Approaches to Learning: Incorporating Critical Thinking and Differentiation into Project-based Learning Outcomes
Approaches to Learning: Incorporating Critical Thinking and Differentiation into Project-based Learning Outcomes
(W Mar 10, 1-2:30pm Eastern Standard Time) Participants in this 1.5 hr. workshop, will compare project-based learning outcomes and use their analysis to backward map the lesson such that it hits the skills and thinking objectives desired. In this workshop teachers will work with several free online applications that allow students to create diverse projects […]
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Standards-based Grading Series: Writing Easy-to-Use Rubrics
Standards-based Grading Series: Writing Easy-to-Use Rubrics
(F Mar 12, 11am-12:30pm Eastern Standard Time) In this 1.5 hr. workshop, participants will practice writing rubrics with the intent of assessing the attainment of specific content and skills standards. We will explore how rubrics can be designed for ease of use and consistent interpretation. I will challenge the participants to make rubrics that are […]
Approaches to Learning: Helping Students Give Kind and Useful Critical Feedback
Approaches to Learning: Helping Students Give Kind and Useful Critical Feedback
(F Mar 12, 1pm-2:30pm Eastern Time) One of the tools of student-centered teaching is the peer review process. In this technique, students gather in small groups and present their work to one another. The audience of peers is asked to use their knowledge and experience to give critical feedback to the presenter so they can […]
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Choosing the Best Error Bars to Use on a Graph Featuring DataClassroom
Choosing the Best Error Bars to Use on a Graph Featuring DataClassroom
In this free workshop, Kristen Dotti from Catalyst Learning Curricula will walk you through the choices that are commonly used to depict the spread of data in a sample group. Interpreting error bars was once a skill limited to upper-level science courses but has now become a basic part of data literacy in our everyday […]
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Student-designed Experiments: Part 3 Guiding Students Through Data Analysis
Student-designed Experiments: Part 3 Guiding Students Through Data Analysis
(Tu Mar 16, 7-8:30pm Eastern Daylight Time) Teachers will play the role of the students, collecting data in their own homes and pooling their observations and measurements in a spreadsheet shared by their lab partners. We will conduct data analysis within lab groups during the workshop to experience how this process can be performed using […]
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Statistics for Teaching Advanced Science: Part 7 Hypothesis Testing Using Tests of Correlation
Statistics for Teaching Advanced Science: Part 7 Hypothesis Testing Using Tests of Correlation
(W Mar 17, 11am-12:30pm Eastern Daylight Time) Parts 5-8 continue the Statistics for Science series to include the skills required in high school Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) science courses. In these workshops, we will learn how and when to use each of the most common statistical tests that are used to test […]
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: Helping Students Identify Logical Fallacies
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: Helping Students Identify Logical Fallacies
(W Mar 17, 1-2:30pm Eastern Daylight Time) Fallacies are errors in reasoning that undermine the logic of an argument. However, fallacies do not necessarily weaken the impact of the argument—on the contrary, fallacies are employed as persuasive devices that lead an audience to false conclusions. In this 1.5 hr. workshop, participants will learn to identify […]
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Standards-based Grading Series: Process Portfolios to Document Thinking and Learning
Standards-based Grading Series: Process Portfolios to Document Thinking and Learning
(F Mar 19, 11am-12:30pm Eastern Standard Time) This 1.5 hr. workshop is dedicated to making thinking “visible” by documenting what influences a student’s thought process and by keeping track of the changes that occur when additional information is acquired. Process portfolios can be used in any subject area where a student’s ideas are evolving: a […]
Curriculum Development: Planning Phenomenon-driven Units for NGSS Science Classes
Curriculum Development: Planning Phenomenon-driven Units for NGSS Science Classes
(F Mar 19, 1pm-2:30pm Eastern Standard Time) The goal of this 1.5 hr. workshop is to help teachers develop a unit that uses inquiry to drive the exploration of a process or phenomenon. Participants will learn a repeatable structure for writing phenomenon-driven lessons that incorporate the three dimensions of the Next Generation Science Standards: Scientific […]
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Student-designed Experiments: Part 4 Drawing Evidence-based Conclusions
Student-designed Experiments: Part 4 Drawing Evidence-based Conclusions
(Tu Mar 23, 7-8:30pm Eastern Daylight Time) This workshop will focus on the content and demands of the conclusion section of a lab report, with applications to data-based questions and internal assessments for IB students, and free response questions for AP students. The conclusions drawn from experimental data must be limited to the scope of […]
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Statistics for Teaching Advanced Science: Part 8 Choosing the Most Appropriate Stats for Your Data
Statistics for Teaching Advanced Science: Part 8 Choosing the Most Appropriate Stats for Your Data
(W Mar 24, 11am-12:30pm Eastern Daylight Time) This is the culminating workshop for the Statistics for Advanced Level Science series. In this session, we will compare the application of different hypothesis tests and discuss how more than one type of statistical analysis may be appropriate for the same set of data. We will look for […]
Approaches to Learning: Using Puzzles to Teach Pattern Recognition
Approaches to Learning: Using Puzzles to Teach Pattern Recognition
(W Mar 24, 1-2:30pm Eastern Daylight Time) In this 1.5 hr. workshop, teachers will work individually and then as a team to identify a pattern in puzzle pieces that tell the story of a theorem, function, or process. Once the pattern is defined, participants will use the pattern to predict what comes before or what […]
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Student-designed Experiments Part 5: Data-generating Activities for Labs and Computation
Student-designed Experiments Part 5: Data-generating Activities for Labs and Computation
(Tu Mar 30, 7-8:30pm Eastern Daylight Time) Whether in the classroom or at home, how do we initiate the process of student-designed lab or field experiments? The first step is to help the students see potential research questions and the data in the world around them. In this 1.5-hour workshop, we engage in several demonstration […]
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Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: Helping Students Discern Fact from Fiction
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: Helping Students Discern Fact from Fiction
(W Mar 31, 1-2:30pm Eastern Daylight Time) Information is available from an unlimited number of sources and accessible to anyone. And, anyone who desires can make information available to the masses regardless of its factual or fictitious nature. How are we able to determine what information is reliable and what is suspect? In this 1.5 […]