Week of Events
Helping Students Give Kind and Useful Critical Feedback
Helping Students Give Kind and Useful Critical Feedback
One of the tools of student-centered teaching is the peer-review process. In this technique, students gather in small groups and present their work to one another. The audience of peers is asked to use their knowledge and experience to give critical feedback to the presenter so they can improve their work before it is turned […]
Developing and Using Models Part 1
Developing and Using Models Part 1
In this 1.5-hour workshop, we will explore 2-dimensional modeling for use in Next Generation science and math courses. Whether it is a schematic diagram, a systems map, a simulation, a graph, or a computer algorithm, models are used pervasively throughout science to interpret, predict, and test the way individual variables interact to yield a complex […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 5 Data-generating Activities for Labs, Demos, and Computation
Student-designed Experiments: Part 5 Data-generating Activities for Labs, Demos, and Computation
Whether in the classroom or at home, how do we initiate the process of student-designed lab or field experiments? The first step is to help the students see potential research questions and the data in the world around them. In this 1.5-hour workshop, we engage in several demonstration activities to help teachers see sources for […]
Part 1 Choosing the Most Appropriate Graph for Your Data
Part 1 Choosing the Most Appropriate Graph for Your Data
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 this 1.5 hr. workshop, participants will […]
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
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. A hand-calculation will be done using […]