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The Journey Back: Leveraging Data Tools and EdTech
in the Post-COVID Classroom
Engage in a lesson from NOAA’s Data in the Classroom to
explore some effective engagement and assessment tools and technologies for the
post-COVID classroom.
Takeaways: 1. Keep experimenting with EdTech inside and outside of your classrooms; 2. Utilize EdTech for assessment and engagement of all learners in the classroom; and 3.
Access scientific data from NOAA to help students evaluate claims, construct arguments, and better understand the world around them.
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Preservice Day Session: Making Science
Fairs More Equitable Online
Come hear how preservice teachers organized and hosted a
virtual science fair that aligns with the NGSS science practices—and
learn how to do this yourself!
Takeaways: Learn how: 1. to hold a science fair virtually; 2. to align the traditional science fair project with the NGSS science and engineering practices; and 3. preservice teachers can learn from this real-world practicum experience.
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Designing Your Own Online Labs
Good data-based labs are priceless. Developing your own
is hard—especially for online. Walk through the process of designing
online, data-based labs.
Takeaways: 1. Identify the differences between developing online labs and face-to-face labs; 2. Become familiar with some tools and resources available to help you design your own online, data-based labs; and 3. Be able to identify additional supports students will need in online settings.
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How to Ask for Help in Online Courses (esp. Science and Math)A lot of students don't actually know how to ask for help. They will just send you an email saying, "I don't understand the assignment!" This brief video gives students a little bit of quick coaching on how to ask their instructors for help - what things will help them get the quickest and most helpful reply from their teachers.
Summer STEM Institute Goes Virtual: Creating an Engaging
STEM Learning Program
We will share the strategies and activities that made
our first virtual STEM institute an engaging and educational experience for
diverse upper elementary and middle level youth.
Takeaways: Participants will: 1. identify best practices for engaging youth in informal STEM experiences, including an end-of-summer celebration; 2. learn how we delivered programming in STEM with multiple grade-level bands; and 3. gain a list of valuable resources we used to teach scientific concepts, including how we created and distributed kits.
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Continuing Collaborative Experimentation When Students
Must Be Remote: Solutions and Perceptions
Struggling to deliver lab experiences simultaneously to
in-person and remote students in large numbers? Come learn how we did it and
share your solutions too.
Takeaways: 1. The approach one takes to delivering online/hybrid laboratory experience depends on learning objectives; 2.
Course-based research experiences can be conducted through remote collaborations; and 3.
Students acknowledge benefits of online/hybrid research experiences.
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