Online Teaching Techniques: Using ThingLinks for Project-based Learning
(W Oct 14, 7-8:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) Participants will explore two prepared examples of projects created with ThingLink to compare the degree of critical thinking and originality required when this tool is used to simply gather information or to apply ideas. By creating an original example each person will build a new project while […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 3 Guiding Students Through Data Analysis
(Sa Oct 17, 11am-12:30 pm 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 […]
Standards-based Grading Series: Process Portfolios to Document Thinking and Learning
(Sa Oct 17, 1-2:30 pm Eastern Daylight 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: […]
New Jersey Science Convention – Oct. 21-22, 2020
Marriott Forrestal 100 College Rd East, Princeton, NJSwing by the booth to peruse printed binders of AP and general level Daily Lesson Plans curricula, Case Studies for Advanced Science, the Math and Statistics for AP/IB Science curriculum, or to check out the new STEM and NGSS skills curricula for grades K-8. Stay to join me for a hands-on workshop using student-centered instructional […]
Math-infused Science: Teaching Graphing Skills Part 2 (Using Data Nuggets)
(W Oct 21, 5-6:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) In this workshop participants will use an example data set from the Data Nuggets website to explore different methods of depicting the same set of numbers in several different ways. We will define the relationship between the research question and the visual representation of data and address […]
Online Teaching Techniques: Using Team Challenges to Foster Collaboration
(W Oct, 7-8:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) 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 to assess mastery of knowledge and skills. Team challenges include any activity that asks a cooperative group to […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 4 Drawing Evidence-based Conclusions
(Sa Oct 24, 11am-12:30 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 […]
Online Teaching Techniques: Using Pattern Puzzles to Teach Content
(Sa Oct 24, 1-2:30 pm 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 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 […]
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: Using Debates to Teach Evidence-based Reasoning
(W Oct 28, 7-8:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) 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 […]
NSTA Regional Conference in Pittsburgh, PA – Oct. 29-31, 2020
David L. Lawrence Convention Center 1000 Ft. Duquesne Blvd., Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesSwing by the booth to peruse printed binders of AP and general level Daily Lesson Plans curricula, Case Studies for Advanced Science, the Math and Statistics for AP/IB Science curriculum, or to check out the new STEM and NGSS skills curricula for grades K-8. Stay to join me for a hands-on workshop using student-centered instructional […]