Phenomena-based Science, Your Students and Your Materials
Join teacher leaders trained by OpenSciEd to experience an OSE middle school unit that asks the question, “How do changes in the Earth’s system impact our communities and what can we do about it?”. Apply instructional ideas to your own classroom and your district’s science materials.
During this series participants will:
- Engage with NGSS-focused, Ambitious Science Teaching practices and OpenSciEd instructional routines
- Analyze adopted instructional materials for opportunities to enhance with NGSS practices and routines
- Consider local, climate-related phenomena to add to units and participate in affinity groups to identify enhancements to your current materials
Course logistics
Online learning
Learning about NGSS instructional routines using an OpenSciEd Unit: Natural Hazards
- Four contact hours – Saturday, 1/8/22, 9:00 AM- 1:00 PM
- Four contact hours – Tuesday, 1/11/22, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Location – Zoom
Online PLCs
- 90 minutes each – 2/1, 2/15, 3/1, 3/15
- Continue work on routines and explore ways to enhance current district materials using ideas from the workshop series
- 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Teacher support
- Up to twelve STEM clock hours available for purchase (Clock hour application pending approval)
- $450 implementation stipend upon completion of project data collection surveys
Funding provided by the Washington State Legislature through the ClimeTime proviso and is available to Washington State teachers only.