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Session 2: Experience Phenomena Driven Inquiry

Cody Derr

Created on October 15, 2024

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Session 2: Experience phenomena-driven Inquiry

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.

Diving into STEELS Integration

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

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

Let's Get Started!

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

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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.

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?

  • Properties
  • Solubility
  • Bouyancy
  • Waves
  • Ocean Currents
  • Coriolis Effect
  • Human Impacts
  • Convection
  • Radiation

Matter

Climate

Thermal Energy

Systems

  • Unputs
  • Outputs

Facilitate Learning Instead of Memorization of Terms and Facts

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

This Does NOT Mean No Direct Instruction!

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?

05:00

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

Performance Expectations

Performance Expectations

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

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

Foundation Box Exploration Activity

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

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 2024

  • 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
Which other dimensions do you see?
How will you know a learner has achieved the performance expectations?
What are the performance expectations?
Which science & engineering practices do you see?

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

Assessment Exploration Activity

The STEELS Notebook has additional information and resources to explore.

Eureka!

Thanks for joining us today!