Welcome Mr. Strancke: Principal Shorewood Intermediate School

Item 1: How to get a job in the current education market

Item 2: Defend Best Practice in Science, role-play

Welcome to Week 2!Theme: Physical SciencePlease sit at the table marked with your

ideal teaching level (could be based on current placement, or future plans)

(showing flexible grouping)Please introduce yourself to your group

mates and tell them, why you picked this level.

Questions/Concerns?

What Questions/ Comments/ Concerns/ Issues do you have after last week?

Walk Away… (Goals and Outcomes)By the time you leave today you should be

able to:Ramp up and ramp down lessons by level and $

$Be less afraid of Science Identify constructivist methodsKnow how to make lessons more student-

centeredKnow more about Physical ScienceBe ready to start your lesson analysis

Show and TellKelly’s Favorite Toys: I’ll introduce them,

then leave them out while we work on other things so that you can check them out up close.

Journal reflectionsComments to share?How Science isn’t done well at higher levels

Annotated BibliographyShow and tell:

Pick your favorite resource, and tell us about it and why we would like it.

Museum Walk- Constructivism in ScienceWhat is constructivism?

What does it look like? (or sound like...)

What can it mean in Science?

Three Types of Labs

Discovery- explore big concepts

Exploration- further examine ideas

Verification- re-enact established information

Most Constructivist, Most student control

Most Traditional, Most teacher control

The 5 E Model for Teaching Science

The 5 E'sEngage- catch the interest, create

questions

Explore- discover the big concept

Explain- connect the concept to information

Elaborate- go further in depth

Evaluate- assess student understanding

Example of the 5 E's for Older Students

Engage- play with flip cars

Explore- what can we measure?

Explain- meaning of slope/ walk-a graph

Elaborate- acceleration

Evaluate- assess students

Example of 5 E's with Younger Students

Link to PowerPoint from FSU.

Changing Levels- PracticeTake one lab or activity, discuss in your

group how you could make it fit the following levels (be ready to share)

Early Elementary

Older Elementary

Middle School

Changing Cost- PracticePick one of the lesson plans that your

group brought to analyze and look at the materials.

Discuss how you could do this lesson with:No budget (comes out of your pocket)

Small budget

Large budget

Be ready to share

Let’s discuss and learn from each other!

Eeks! Of Teaching ScienceOn a piece of paper, write down your biggest

fear about teaching Science.Pass your paper to another person- on

someone else’s paper, write something that they could do to handle the situation.

Pass the paper again- add another solution to someone else’s issue.

Finally, get your paper back, you should have 2 solutions to your concern.

Let’s discuss them.

Un-eek with PracticeWeek 4 will be a learning laboratory where

we will experiment on each other. Do whatever you want to try out- low risk environment

Lesson EvaluationThe parts of your lesson analysis:a.      How the lesson ties to the content standards, and WHY it fits that standard.b.      How it integrates constructivist techniquesc.      How it could better utilize constructivist techniques (if applicable)d.      How you would manage the materials during the lesson (Where would you get them from (affordably)? How would you hand them out? What would you do to maintain them? How would you recollect them at the end of the lesson?e.      How you would manage students during the lesson (With whom would they work? Would roles be assigned, if so what would they be? How would groups be created- student selected, teacher designed, heterogeneous, homogenous?

Preview of Next ClassHand in lesson analysis Theme- All the process standards and how to

design/ use labs with the Scientific MethodHomework bookmark and evaluation

EvaluationWays to get feedback from students**Warning: Must actually be willing to use feedback!Scrap paper- fill in:

1) The following was really good...2) The following needs work...

3) Comments/ ConcernsMore creative- have fun with it (I.e. half-time report)Technological (surveymonkey, SMART response)