Students model thermal energy transfer between a hot liquid and a cooler solid, exploring how this might also occur in everyday phenomena. Assessment 3D Learning Target Model thermal energy flow for materials at different temperatures and for different types of...
This task is targeted to students in grades 6–8 studying body systems or algal blooms. Students develop a model showing the interactions that allow humans to detect issues in water quality based on the taste of the water. Assessment 3D Learning Target Develop a model...
This task is targeted to students in grades 6–8 studying ecology and human impacts on the environment. Students identify relationships between human activity and environmental impacts on water resources. Educators can leverage students’ ideas to assess understandings...
This assessment task is aligned with middle school grades 6-8. The assessment context within the middle school curriculum is thermal energy transfer and developing a model for particle motion as energy transfers. Students are presented with a discrepant event when two...
FREE 5-session Course from IslandWood & OSPI ClimeTime Presenter: Brad Street Description: Did you know idling cars during school pickup impacts air quality and the environment? Learn how to use an easy to implement action[...]
FREE 5-session Course from IslandWood & OSPI ClimeTime Presenters: Brad Street Description: In this course, teachers and students use the perimeter of their school to inquire about and monitor air quality as well as learn[...]
Use a simple clump of dandelions to anchor a Next Generation Science Standards-aligned storyline that will get your students outside and engaged with science this Spring. Presenters: Brad Street Description: Incorporating your schoolyard and community[...]
3-Day Immersion Class“ OCDE Project GLAD®” Unit Presenters: Kate Austin Description: As we researched the enormous impact of climate change, we found so many voices of hope in how people around the world are addressing[...]
A STEM workshop for secondary Science/STEM/CTE teachers Presenters: Jen Eklund, Caroline Kiehle, John Leitzinger Description: The purpose is to guide secondary teachers ready to deeply learn what the 3-Dimensions of science learning looks like, and[...]
3-Day Immersion Class“ OCDE Project GLAD®” Unit Presenters: Kate Austin Description: As we researched the enormous impact of climate change, we found so many voices of hope in how people around the world are addressing[...]
