eTG Overview Poster
Lead Organization(s)
Year
2013
Short Description
Learn more about the Plan, Teach and Reflect features of the electronic teacher guide.
Resource(s)
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Essential Support Video: Setting the Stage for Discussion
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Lead Organization(s)
Year
2013
Short Description
Common classroom experiences anchor discussions and level the playing field for all students. Setting the stage for discussion includes a review of relevant investigations or activities.
Talk Science Primer
Lead Organization(s)
Year
2012
Short Description
An essay detailing the purposes, functions and benefits of academically productive talk including the Talk Goals and Moves chart.
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Why Formative Assessment?
Lead Organization(s)
Year
2013
Short Description
In this short text, the power of formative assessment as a teaching tool is detailed, and examples of opportunities for formative assessment within Foundation Science Biology proposed, for Learning Experiences (LE) 2, 3 and 4.
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VISUALIZING OCEANS OF DATA Educational Interface Design
Science is data-intensive, but today’s science education is not. In most classrooms, students’ work with data is limited to reading graphs prepared by others, or at best collecting simple data sets themselves. While these student-collected data sets allow students to begin building their data proficiency, the conclusions that can be drawn and the lessons that can be learned from these data are limited in scope and can sometimes be compromised by data quality.
Year
2012
Short Description
The Oceans of Data project has made an attempt to define and confront what is “hard” for students and teachers who attempt to use large, online professional data sets. We feel passionately that it’s important for us to do this to prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s world.
VISUALIZING OCEANS OF DATA Educational Interface Design
Science is data-intensive, but today’s science education is not. In most classrooms, students’ work with data is limited to reading graphs prepared by others, or at best collecting simple data sets themselves. While these student-collected data sets allow students to begin building their data proficiency, the conclusions that can be drawn and the lessons that can be learned from these data are limited in scope and can sometimes be compromised by data quality.
Year
2012
Short Description
The Oceans of Data project has made an attempt to define and confront what is “hard” for students and teachers who attempt to use large, online professional data sets. We feel passionately that it’s important for us to do this to prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s world.
Envisioning Scientifically Literate Students Fifteen Years after Graduation: The Promise of Educative Science Journalism
Lead Organization(s)
Year
2012
Short Description
The “Science Literacy Through Science Journalism” (SciJourn) project explores how the practices of good science journalism can inform high school science education. As high school students report science news, they learn to gather and contextualize information and bring critical eyes to that which they read and write. This effort can be contrasted to the goal of making every student a “little scientist.”
Resource(s)
Teachers as Editors, Editors as Teachers
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Lead Organization(s)
Year
2012
Short Description
In this study, we examine how a professional science news editor and high school teachers respond to student writing in order to understand the values and priorities each bring to bear on student work. These questions guided our work:
• How do teachers respond to authentic genres in content-area classes?
• How does teacher response compare to the responses of a professional editor?
Resource(s)
SmartGraphs Authoring Tool
A demonstration of the SmartGraphs software, and features of the authoring system, is available here: Authoring Demo. Concord is also making the authoring system available to any NSF-funded project that wants to incorporate Web-based SmartGraphs activities into its work. Activities run directly in a browser, so there is nothing to download or install. See http://smartgraphs.org for details about SmartGraphs.
Lead Organization(s)
Year
2013
Short Description
SmartGraphs is free, open source software that helps students understand graphs and concepts represented in graphs (e.g., slope, velocity, half-life, global warming).
Front-Page Science: Engaging Teens in Science Literacy
“The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force issued new guidelines for mammograms in 2009. What does this mean for someone with a family history of breast cancer? Congress periodically votes on a piece of legislation called the Farm Bill. What does its current iteration mean for the safety of supermarket eggs? Understanding how the latest science affects real people—patients, consumers, voters, and taxpayers—is at the heart of science literacy.”
—From Chapter 1 of Front-Page Science
Year
2012
Short Description
Like citizen journalists, your students can get to the heart of science literacy—and challenging questions like these—with the “learn by doing” methodology in this innovative book. Front-Page Science uses science journalism techniques to help students become better consumers of, and contributors to, a scientifically literate community.