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 […]
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
(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 […]
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
(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 […]
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 […]
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
(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]