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Informal Inference: Reframing Instructional Design for Data Literacy?
We collect and analyze data in order to make inferences. Sure, there are other reasons to collect data. For example, every year I write down the date that the forsythias come into bloom in our backyard. No inferences there … … Continue reading
John Van Dis on Student Centered Science
Next week, on May 6 (3:00 PM) and 8 (1:00 PM), John Van Dis will be offering a two-part series of workshops in which he will talk about approaches he has been using to support student-centered science investigations during these … Continue reading
Making Students’ Thinking Visible While Apart
Schools in Maine shut down at the start of the third week of March. They will not reopen before the end of this school year. When the schools shut down, my teaching partner, Sarah Hooper, and I were working with … Continue reading
Transitioning to Community Science While Sheltering in Place
Whew! What a time we are in. On Thursday, March 12 Sarah Hooper (my colleague at Schoodic Institute) and I were still working with students to help them prepare for a presentation to clam harvesters. The following Monday, local schools … Continue reading
Posted in CSI-Maine, Schools and Community
Tagged Authentic Learning, Citizen Science, science teaching
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A Great Day in the Mud: Seeing What is Possible
On Wednesday of last week I was reminded why I do what I do. Eighteen sixth and seventh grade students from the Edna Drinkwater School in Northport joined me in setting up experimental plots on a clam flat that will … Continue reading
Posted in Authentic Science in Schools, CSI-Maine
Tagged Authentic Learning, Citizen Science, Clams, science teaching
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Taking the Measure
What did we find? That was the question that Sumner Memorial High School Students began to answer this past week as they analyzed the samples that they helped collect from John Small Cove on October 27.
Bringing Authentic Science to Schools
Schoodic Institute uses the word “authentic” in its work with Sumner Memorial High School to describe science learning that addresses real problems and needs, where people outside the school want the data that the students collect. It is also authentic … Continue reading
Science, Community, and Clams
It would be great if students had a chance to do science that matters. It would be great if students had first-hand experience with the work and concerns of their communities. It would be great if we didn’t lose so … Continue reading
NGSS as Maine’s Science Standards? It’s Not So Simple.
Many educators feel that the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) should become Maine’s science standards. There is no question that the NGSS have already had a positive impact on science instruction across Maine. But some of us who help schools and … Continue reading
Posted in Instructional Practice
Tagged Authentic Learning, science teaching, Standards
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Design of Middle and High School Citizen Science Programs
I have been invited by a National Academy of Science committee to share some of what we have learned at the Schoodic Institute in more than 10 years of designing and implementing citizen science programs in schools. The invitation was … Continue reading
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