Join High School educators to learn about student collaboration, using
website interactives, and engaging students with authentic data.
How science really works: Enhancing instruction with the Science
Flowchart interactive
Find out how to modify your current
instruction to better communicate the dynamic process of science using an
interactive tool from the Understanding Science website. Help students recognize
science as a dynamic, exciting, creative, and intensely human endeavor!
Saving the Night with Citizen Science
Provide students
with the power of citizen science as they make scientific observations and
analyze data to increase awareness worldwide about the impact of light pollution
using NSF’s NOIRLab’s Globe at Night program. Students engage with authentic
data to propose solutions to light pollution.
We are All in this Together - Collaboration is Key
In
this session, we will focus on the importance of student collaboration and how
to incorporate student collaboration through sensemaking.
SPEAKERS:
Betsy Barent (Lincoln Public Schools: , United States), Anastasia Thanukos (University of California Museum of Paleontology: Berkeley, CA), Robert Sparks (NSF's NOIRLab), Justine Schaen (NSF's NOIRLab: Tucson, AZ), Elissa Blount (Vidalia High School: Vidalia, GA)