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 will be studied through scientific exploration using a remote teaching and learning platform. We will help our students conduct a preliminary investigation at home to […]
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 the speed and depth of learning that has been achieved so far using remote learning, we know teaching may be reduced to a bare minimum […]
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 as potentially impacting a particular phenomenon they have explored. Using a think-pair-share process, we will give students the structure needed to write steps for a […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 3 Analyzing Collected Data
(W June 3, 4-5:30 pm EDT) This workshop will continue to build on the skills taught in Parts 1 and 2 for teaching a science course using remote learning. 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 […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 4 Drawing Conclusions
(Th June 4, 2-3:30 pm EDT) 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 the […]
Claim-Evidence-Reasoning: Using Debates in an Online Classroom
(M June 8, 2-3:30 pm EDT) An exciting way to engage your students in their online class is to use a topic that sparks discussion, research, and the desire to sleuth out additional information. In this workshop, teachers will participate in a debate in an asynchronous platform (such as Google Classroom) and in a synchronous […]
Remote Teaching and Learning: Part 1 Setting Up Your Asynchronous Classes
(M June 8, 6-7:30 pm EDT) The purpose of this 1.5-hour workshop is to organize your teaching load into discrete groups that you can access so contact is continuous throughout the time school is closed. I will guide you through the process of creating virtual classrooms using a program called Google Classroom.* This program allows […]
Claim-Evidence-Reasoning: Helping Students Discern Fact from Fiction
(Tu June 9, 2-3:30pm EDT) 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 workshop, we will […]
Math-infused Science: Choosing the Most Appropriate Graph
(Tu June 9, 4-5:30 pm EDT) Students aren’t the only ones who struggle to determine the best way to display data in graphic form. Because there are usually many representations that can be used, and each may encourage the reader to make slightly different conclusions, deciding on the most appropriate graph can be tricky. In […]
Statistics for General Level Science: Part 1 Measuring and Reporting Uncertainty
(W June 10, 2-3:30 pm EDT) All measurements have some degree of uncertainty or error, but how it is reported is decided by the person collecting the data. Because analysis is dependent on the data collected, the method used to report error can substantially impact the strength of the claims made and conclusions drawn. In […]