Week of Events
Statistics for Teaching Advanced Science: Part 6 Hypothesis Testing Using the Student’s t-test
Statistics for Teaching Advanced Science: Part 6 Hypothesis Testing Using the Student’s t-test
(W Sept 30, 5-6:30 pm 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 […]
Online Teaching Techniques: Using Stop-animation Videos in an Online Class
Online Teaching Techniques: Using Stop-animation Videos in an Online Class
(W Sept 30, 7-8:30 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 this1.5 […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 1 Building Curiosity
Student-designed Experiments: Part 1 Building Curiosity
(Sa Oct 3, 11am-12:30 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 […]
Math-infused Science: Writing and Speaking About Data (for DBQs and FRQs)
Math-infused Science: Writing and Speaking About Data (for DBQs and FRQs)
(Sa Oct 3, 1pm-2:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) How do we talk about data? How do we write about data? In this 1.5 hr. 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 […]