Week of Events
Online Teaching Techniques: Using Pattern Puzzles to Teach Content
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
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 […]
Teaching High School Biology Online: Part 1 Biochemistry Unit Topics
Teaching High School Biology Online: Part 1 Biochemistry Unit Topics
(W Aug 5, 12-1:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) In this series, we will rework one unit of the biology curriculum each session with a goal of stripping down the content and skills to create a list of priorities in case students are working online when this unit is taught. As a group of peers, general […]
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: Using Debates in an Online Class
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: Using Debates in an Online Class
(W Aug 5, 2-3:30pm 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 a […]