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Student Designed Experiments

Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Student Designed Experiments

Part 1 Building Curiosity

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...
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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 and making observations and hypotheses. We will then assist our students in recognizing and naming potential variables that may be responsible for impacting this phenomenon. Participants will learn to guide their students through this process and identify variables that could be adequately explored within the constraints of at-home learning.

This 1.5-hour workshop is open to science and math teachers of all grade levels. We will focus on employing the Next Generating Science Standards (NGSS) instructional practices for teaching math-infused science.

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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Student Designed Experiments

Part 2 Helping Students Write an Experimental Procedure

In this workshop we will pick up where Part 1 of this series left off. We begin with a list of variables our students have identified as potentially impacting a...
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In this workshop we will pick up where Part 1 of this series left off. We begin with a list of variables our students have identified as potentially impacting a particular phenomenon they have explored. Using a think-pair-share process, we will give students the structure needed to write steps for a scientific investigation using the independent variable of their choice. Students will work in lab groups to share their ideas and coalesce on an experimental design that addresses their research question. With the teachers in this workshop acting as the students we will practice conducting a peer review in an asynchronous (posted class assignment) or synchronous platform (video meeting). This workshop is most suited for teachers who have already taken Part 1 of the Student-designed Experiments series.

This 1.5-hour workshop is open to science and math teachers of all grade levels. We will focus on employing the Next Generating Science Standards (NGSS) instructional practices for teaching math-infused science.

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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Student Designed Experiments

Part 3 Guiding Students Through Data Analysis

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...
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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 using remote teaching and learning platforms. Peer critiques will help improve the preliminary data charts, graphs, and analysis to produce a curated product from each lab group before going on to the final steps of drawing conclusions. This workshop builds on the process taught in Parts 1 and 2 of the Student-designed Experiments series, but it can be used as a stand-alone workshop if desired.

This 1.5-hour workshop is open to science and math teachers of all grade levels. We will focus on employing the Next Generating Science Standards (NGSS) instructional practices for teaching math-infused science.

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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Student Designed Experiments

Part 4 Drawing Evidence-based Conclusions

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...
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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 of the experiment, but it is also important for students to be able to understand how their individual work is related to the broader world. This workshop will employ an activity teachers can use to help their students identify the implications of their conclusions and connect the work they have done to topics that may be relevant. This workshop builds on the process taught in Parts 1, 2, and 3 of the Student-designed Experiments series, but it is not necessary to have taken the previous sessions to join and benefit from this workshop.

This 1.5-hour workshop is open to science and math teachers of all grade levels. We will focus on employing the Next Generating Science Standards (NGSS) instructional practices for teaching math-infused science.

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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Student Designed Experiments

Part 5 Data-generating Activities for Labs 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...
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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 inquiry that are easily accessible. We will use spreadsheets to gather large amounts of data very quickly, and then look for trends in the data to expand our initial question into additional research questions. This repeatable technique is one that can be used in a synchronous or asynchronous class, in-person or in a distance-learning environment. Each data-generating activity explored can be used with students to practice analysis and graphing, or to develop a sophisticated investigation for use as an independent research project or Internal Assessment.

Although the examples in this workshop will be based in math and science, this 1.5-hour workshop is open to teachers of all grade levels and subject areas.

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