Guiding Question: What are some teaching strategies to support STEM that IB and regular classroom use?
Guest: Greg Moncada, STEM Coordinator for the Bainbridge School District. He blogs at The Bainbridge STEMBlog!
Tips of the Week: Greg- Citizen Scientist: http://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science/Citizen Sort: http://www.citizensort.org/Sheltered Instructional Protocol from Pearson
Citizen Science/Gaming: Citizen Science sites on Scientific American
Fold-it: Game driven citizen science protein folding site.Eyewire: A neuroscience game that is designed to map the brain.Citizen Sort: Learn how to classify organisms taken by others. Great for getting students to identify animals.Other projects on CitizenScienceAlliance. Good Whale music for orcas.Problem Based Learning from the Pacific Environmental Institute: www. pacificeducationinstitute.org
We also have a number of webinars that we’ve recorded in the past year that give an introduction to some of the PEI guides (which are available for free online), as well as online tutorials that give a basic introduction to the guides. These include:
a. Field Investigations(webinar): http://www.eeweek.org/ webinars/field_investigations
b. Environmental PBL(webinar): http://www.bie.org/services/ webinars/environmental_pbl
c. Exploring Landscapes through Project-Based Learning(webinar): http://vimeo.com/channels/ afwa/52242836
d. Connecting students, STEM and standards through Field Investigations, Project-Based Learning and Systems Thinking(tutorial):http://opennh.net/course/view. php?id=325
David- I mentioned in Show 28 the value of having a unit planning template for your curriculum review system. Grant Wiggins recently posted about the importance of using templates in the planning process. If you are not already following Grant’s blog, do look to add it to your reader. Future Problem Solvers: http://www.fpspi.org/
Next Show- Sara Dexter, Associate Professor of Technology Leadership at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education. She will join us to talk about team-based instructional leadership for concept-focused math and science education.