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Dear High School Teacher,
Are you interested in providing feedback on a new curriculum? Consider field testing one unit of a new curriculum being developed by an interdisciplinary team at UC Berkeley for grades 9-12, focusing on some of the most powerful ideas and skills in scientific thinking this fall (2023).
Unit 3: Systematic Scientific Investigations
(see the course outline for more information on unit 3, including:
- how data from studies can reveal CORRELATIONS between various factors (sleep, stress, nutrition) and aspects of well-being (physical and mental), and generate possible causal explanations
- how a RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (RCT) can generate more reliable evidence of causation.
- Unit 3 has connections to general science, health, and physiology (more information about the unit and course can be found in the course outline)
Field testing Unit 3 involves:
- Participate in a one-time brief training in the summer as part of the preparation
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Teach approximately 10 activities (~ 2 - 3 weeks of instructional time)
- Provide feedback on the unit with short surveys after each activity (10 - 20 min/survey) and after the unit (up to 30 min).
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Administer pre- and post-unit assessments
to students and submit work of students who have agreed researchers can review it (up to one hour)
- Compensation: up to $300/unit (prorated depending on elements above completed)
More details are linked here about the curriculum project.
If you are interested, please provide your information here: STK recruitment interest
Please feel free to reach out to the Field Test coordinator, Kelly Grindstaff, at [email protected] with any questions. We hope you will consider helping us to develop a meaningful curriculum for high schoolers around scientific thinking!
Thank you for your consideration of this opportunity.
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