Online Teaching Techniques: Team Challenges
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 […]
Math-infused Science: Data-generating Activities
Even when learning online, students can be placed at the center of the learning experience to increase their level of engagement and self-reliance. In this workshop, teachers will learn how […]
Math-infused Science: Data Modeling Activities for Ecology
Using manipulatives found in our homes, we will simulate two common field science experiments: Lincoln’s Index for measuring abundance and Simpson’s Index for measuring biodiversity. Participants will gather evidence and […]
Math-infused Science: Graphic Representation of Data
In this workshop participants will use an example data set to explore different methods of depicting the same set of numbers in several different ways. We will define the relationship […]
Math-infused Science: Describing Data in Written and Verbal Formats
(Th May 28, 2-3:30 pm EDT) How do we talk about data? How do we write about data? In this workshop you will discover ways to help your student be […]
Online Teaching Techniques: Stop-animation Videos
(Th May 28, 6-7:30 pm EDT) Combat attrition with engaging assignments that can be sculpted to the student’s abilities and interest. Stop-animation videos are short movies made with a series […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 1 Developing Curiosity
(M June 1, 4-5:30 pm EDT) In this workshop, we will practice a repeatable structure for introducing a topic that will be studied through scientific exploration using a remote teaching […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 1 Developing Curiosity
(Tu June 2, 2-3:30 pm EDT) Struggling to teach a lab-based science course using remote learning? In this workshop, we will practice a repeatable structure for introducing a topic that […]
Making Contingency Plans: Vertical Team Planning for a Reduced Syllabus
This workshop is aimed at bringing K-12 teachers together to identify the essential skills that need to be targeted in a curriculum that is reduced by remote teaching. Based on […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 2 Writing a Procedure
(W June 3, 12-1:30 pm EDT) This workshop will pick up where Part 1 of this series left off. We begin with a list of variables our students have identified […]