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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]