Student-designed Experiments: Part 4 Drawing Conclusions
(W July 15, 12-1:30 pm 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 […]
Statistics for Advanced Science: Part 6 Hypothesis Testing Using the Student’s t-test
(W July 15, 2-3:30 pm EDT) 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 hypotheses. […]
Online Teaching Techniques: Using Stop-animation Videos in an Online Class
(W July 15, 4-5:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) Combat attrition with engaging assignments that can be sculpted to the student’s abilities and interest. Stop-animation videos are a short movies made with a series of photos taken from the same position and a handful of items that can be moved about to create story. In this […]
Math-infused Science: Describing Data in Written and Verbal Formats FRQs & DBQs
(W July 15, 6-7:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) How do we talk about data? How do we write about data? In this workshop you will discover ways to help your student be specific, using the correct terms, in context, as they identify and describe trends in a set of numbers. We will play two games […]
Increasing Student Engagement and Critical Thinking
Hilton Garden Inn 309 College Street, Asheville, NC, United StatesWho does the thinking in your classroom? If you suspect you are working harder than your students, then this workshop is for you. All students are able to think critically, but you must make the material relevant to get a high level of engagement. Find ways to draw your students in, away from their cell […]
Statistics for Advanced Science: Part 7 Hypothesis Testing Using Tests of Correlation
(W July 22, 2-3:30 pm EDT) 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 hypotheses. […]
Math-infused Science: Data-generating Activities for Labs and Computation
(W July 29, 12-1:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) 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 to use any materials at hand to generate data for mathematical analysis. I will help you develop […]
Statistics for Advanced Science: Part 8 Choosing the Most Appropriate Statistics for Your Data
(W July 29, 2-3:30 pm EDT) 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 […]
Online Teaching Techniques: Using Pattern Puzzles to Teach Content
(Tu Aug 4, 12-1:30pm Eastern Daylight Time) In this workshop, teachers will work individually and then as a team to identify a pattern in puzzle pieces that are 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 […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 1 Developing Curiosity
(Tu Aug 4, 2-3:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) 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 […]