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Using Puzzles to Teach Pattern Recognition
In this 1.5-hour 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 comes next in the series. Testing their hypothesis […]
Part 2 Choosing the Most Appropriate Graph for Your Data
In this 1.5 hr. workshop participants will use an example data set from a Data Nuggets experiment to explore different methods of depicting the same set of numbers in several different ways. We will focus this session on defining the relationship between the research question and the choice of how and what is represented on […]
Statistics for Teaching Advanced Science: Part 8 Choosing the Most Appropriate Stats for Your Data
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 the key components of research questions or […]
Using Team Challenges to Foster Collaboration
Whether for STEM, foreign language, arts, or humanities, applying information is one of the most effective ways for a student to increase their level of understanding and for a teacher to assess mastery of knowledge and skills. Team challenges include any activity that asks a cooperative group to use what they have learned to accomplish […]
Using Competitions to Engage Online or In-person Learners
Competitions are assignments that guide students through a preliminary exploration, data collection, analysis, reflection, and revision in a repeating cycle. This process leans on the scientific method and helps students practice character skills such as persistence, curiosity, critical thinking, and self-direction. For my own purposes, I will differentiate team challenges from competitions in that competitions […]
Part 3 Choosing the Most Appropriate Graph for Your Data
So, should I use a bar graph? Students are often unsure of how to depict data in a manner that elucidates the trends and exposes any disruptions that need to be revealed. However, they often define the choices they make based on the graph type (pie, bar, line, scatterplot, histogram, etc.) rather than choosing how […]
Using Debates to Teach Evidence-based Reasoning
An exciting way to engage your students in their online or in-person class is to use a topic that sparks discussion, research, and the desire to sleuth out additional information. In this 1.5 hr. workshop, teachers will participate in an asynchronous debate (such as a posted homework assignment) and synchronous debate for use during an […]
Math-infused Science: Part 4 Choosing the Most Appropriate Graph for Your Data
The final workshop in this series guides teachers through the technical steps of helping students create a graph that looks the way the student intends it to look. We will navigate the formulas, buttons, options, and functions of two common graphing programs to make visual displays of data that are both beautiful and informative. A […]
Using Games to Teach Complex Concepts
Excitement is easy to stir up when you frame something as a game and add a bit of competition to the process of thinking and learning. In this session, teachers will practice creating two different types of games that can be used to cover the content and apply skills. We will identify when a game […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 1 Building Curiosity
In this workshop, we will practice a repeatable structure for introducing a topic that will be studied through scientific exploration using a remote teaching and learning platform. We will help our students conduct a preliminary investigation at home developing interest in a particular phenomenon by generating data and making observations and hypotheses. We will then […]