Session 2: Experience Phenomena Driven Inquiry

Diving into STEELS Integration

This will be a structured series of professional developments to develop understanding of the new STEELS standards and the phenomena driven inquiry approach to science learning.

Session 2: Experience phenomena-driven Inquiry

Let's Get Started!

Take a piece of paper and fold it in half. This will be your science journal for today!

In your science notebook, note what you Notice and Wonder.

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Use your observations to create a sketch or diagram of what you think happened.

Share your model with your group and compare your displays.

• What is similar?
• What is different?

Read this and discuss any changes in thinking.Develop one group model to share with the class.Create a list of questions you have about this phenomenon

Use your observations to create a sketch or diagram of your observations.

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Now lets think about how we can Investigate these questions

• Asking Questions
• Developing and Using Models
• Planning and Carrying out Investigations

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Analytical Thinking
• Text Analysis

What Learning Did We Facilitate?

What Content Could We Teach?

Facilitate Learning Instead of Memorization of Terms and Facts

• Unputs
• Outputs

Systems

• Convection

• Radiation

Thermal Energy

• Ocean Currents

• Coriolis Effect
• Human Impacts

Climate

• Properties
• Solubility
• Bouyancy
• Waves

Matter

This Does NOT Mean No Direct Instruction!

Moving away from; Instruct, Instruct, Instruct, here's is an example

Take a Moment to Reflect

• How does this compare to your current instruction methods?
• What values do you see in spending time anchoring learning with a phenomena?
• What hesitations or questions do you have?

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Performance Expectations

What learners should be able to do as a result of STEELS instruction

Performance Expectations

Foundation Box Exploration Activity

Explore a foundation box from the STEELS Hub or the 3-Dimensional Lerning & STEELS Notebook

Feel free to share a way you might use a foundation box to help you plan your instruction in the future in the chat.

Assessment Exploration Activity

Which science & engineering practices do you see?

Explore an assessment for your course or use one of the examples provided by the Learning Department

• Asking Questions and Defining Problems
• Developing and Using Models
• Planning and Carrying Out Investigations
• Analyzing and Interpreting Data
• Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking
• Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
• Engaging in Argument from Evidence
• Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 2024

Which other dimensions do you see?

What are the performance expectations?

How will you know a learner has achieved the performance expectations?

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. (2024). Standards Aligned System. Retrieved May 15, 2024 from https://pdesas.org.

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The STEELS Notebook has additional information and resources to explore.

Thanks for joining us today!

Eureka!