|
9:00-9:30
|
Determining
Participant’s Ideas:
Reflections
on Standards-based Education
Participants express, share, and discuss their ideas
about standards and the impact of standards on what is actually taught and how
it is taught. |
|
9:30-10:00
|
The Need for Change:
A. Interpreting Data in a
Newspaper Article
B. The Seed and the
Log
Participants complete two activities that stimulate discussion about the
knowledge and skills important to science literacy and then share their
reactions to the information provided through the activity.
|
| 10:00-10:15 |
Break
|
|
10:15-10:45 |
Overview of Project
2061: History, Principles,
Strategy and Tools
Presenter
provides a brief introduction of Project 2061’s reform vision to acquaint
participants with the Project’s history, ongoing research and development
work, and resources this work has produced.
|
|
10:45-11:45 |
Exploring
the Use of the Project’s Tools in Designing Instruction:
Identify
and Clarify the Benchmarks (Learning Goals) to be Addressed.
Participants
are introduced to a study procedure to clarify their understanding of the
ideas the benchmark intends students to learn.
|
| 11:45-12:45 |
Lunch
|
|
12:45-3:45
|
Exploring the Use of the Project’s Tools in
Designing Instruction:
Sample Lesson “Parts and Wholes”
Participants engage in a sample K-2 lesson designed to address specific
benchmark(s) ideas.
|
| 3:45-4:15 |
Full
Group Discussion of the Sample Lesson
|
| 4:15-4:30 |
Summary
and Reflection Questions
|
|
4:30 |
Assignment
Benchmark
Study
Read
Chapter 13 in Science for All Americans
|
|
Wednesday, May 9, 2001
|
| 8:00-8:30 |
Continental
Breakfast |
| 8:30-9:45 |
Report
out on Benchmark Study |
| 9:45-10:45 |
Exploring the Use of the Project’s Tools in Designing Instruction:
A Sample Lesson “Seeing the Cell as a
System”
Participants engage in a sample 9-12 lesson aligned with specific
benchmark(s) ideas. They then
discuss the relationship between the two sample lessons and the principles of
Project 2061 addressed in the lessons.
|
| 10:45-11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Full
Group Discussion of the Sample Lesson |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Lunch |
|
12:30-3:00 |
Project 2061 Atlas of Science Literacy:
Strand Maps
Participants will examine several features of the Atlas. Questions to
be addressed include:
What does a Strand Map
show us?
What does a Strand Map tell us?
How can we apply Strand Maps in our professional
practice? |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Evaluation
and Wrap Up |
