Science & Math Teaching & Learning

1. Science & Math Teaching & Learning Theresa Robinson PhD National Louis University

2. What is Science? • The process Product model of Science • Repeatable • Verifiable • Based on Evidence • A way of Knowing

3. Student Needs • Who needs What? • The Human Quest: The way of Science • How and why is it that children have an instinct to learn science? • .Why can children be considered “little scientists”?

4. Understanding Science • Concepts are developed in science from Sensory experiences (observing and interacting with the world around them). • Children have way of looking at the world around them that works for them.

5. Science Teaching Standards • Science Content • Nature of Science • Inquiry • Issues • General Skills of Teaching • Curriculum • Science in the Community • Assessment • Safety and Welfare • Professional Growth National Research Council (1996). National Science Education Standards. National Academy Press: Washington, D.C. ,

6. (NCATE) & National Science Teacher Association (NSTA) Standards for Teacher Preparation 2003 1. Content Knowledge 2. Content Knowledge 3. Pedagogical Content Knowledge 4. Professional Knowledge 5. Effect on Student learning 6. Safety/Legal/Issues 7. Research and Investigation 8. Contextual Content Knowledge National Science Teacher Association (2003). Standards for Science Teacher Preparation. Arlington: NSTA

7. Inquiry • Is a teaching-learning method • Ask Questions • Use the tools of science • Describe, classify, explain • Make Connections

8. Discovery Learning • A major goal of science education at every level is for students to discover for themselves what the world is made of and hoe it works pg 73. • High school students organize information by classifying, sequencing, or relating information.

9. Process Skills Observing • Integrated Process Skills • Formulating Hypotheses • Controlling Variables • Experimenting • Graphing CLASSIFYING PREDICTING INFERRING

10. Understanding Science • Sometimes the misconceptions persist through adulthood. • Conceptual change occurs with multiple opportunities to struggle with reorganizing their ideas.

11. Classroom Culture • Science is driven by questions, not a list of facts and definitions • Use current media to connect content to real life • Emphasize team building • Structure group work for labs/activities, everyone is accountable • Creating student ownership of the classroom

12. Prior Knowledge • Be cautious about assumptions regarding prior knowledge • Literacy • Math • Science • Analytical/Critical Thinking Skills • Meet your students where they are at, pull them up to where you want them to be

13. Students Need To • Act on information • Manipulate information • Challenge Information • Explore information • Store information

14. Guided Discussion • Provides opportunity to clarify ideas • Provides a situation for individuals to clarify their own notions. • Provides opportunities for students to build on one another's ideas

15. Math and Literacy

16. Literary Genres and Science • Haikus • Lyrics • Poetry

17. Building Comprehension • Rereading • Vocabulary in Context • Hearing Texts • Jigsawing

18. Literacy Strategies that Work Greek and Latin word parts • Read Alouds/KWL charts/Graphic Organizers • Vocabulary development • Reciprocal Teaching • Jig Saw • Writing to Learn/Structured Note taking • 3-2-1 • Interview a Scientist Fisher, D.Frey,N., & Williams, D. (2002). Seven Literacy Strategies that work. Educational Leadership.

21. Culturally Responsive Teaching Electricity Unit • Circuit- a closed path through which electricity can flow. • Parallel circuit- an electrical cicuit that is arranged so that the current passes through more than one pathway at the same time; a break in one path will not stop the current from flowing in the other parts.

22. Electricity Cont. • Series Circuit- an electrical circuit that is arranged so that the current passess through each pathway in turn; a break anywhere along the path will stop the current from flowing through the entire circuit. • Volt- a unit of force that is used to measure electric current.

23. Integrate Social Studies Lewis Latimer & Thomas Edison • Born 1848-1928, born free, civil rights activists. • Invented carbon filaments for light bulbs, wooden light socket, safety elevator, disinfecting machine, electric. • Good at drawing, painting, and a musician. Joined the Navyat the age of 14 • Draftsmen for Alexander Graham Bell • One of Thomas Edison's co workers

24. Lewis Latimer in the News

25. Universal Design for Learningwww.cast.org/udl

26. Sample Writing to Learn Activities • Start Up or Warm Up • Free writing • List Storming • Cartoons • Stop-n-Write- What I’m thinking right now; questions I have. • Procedure writing

27. Teaching Science Through Social Issues • Urban development • Environmental racism • Science careers • Food Deserts • Population growth • Global Warming: Climate change • Waste disposal • Water issues

31. Student Writing Samples • “I believe that this interview makes me put science in a higher category when it comes to my career/college choices and possibilities. It’s more interesting to me now because Dr. Rabiah makes it seem like so much fun. I also understand that it’s a lot of hard work, so therefore, if I actually want to pursue science.” • ‘I was influenced by Dr. Rabiah because she taught me that you can start striving towards your career at a early age. This career does sound interesting because you learn a lot of new things.” • “The effect this interview had on me was it made thing that being a scientist is no boring. It also made me think that scientist is not only people that really smart, wear glasses and have an life.”

32. Cont’d • “I really don’t want to be a scientist but I enjoyed talking with this scientist, to just learn about another field besides the one I would like to in. which is writing, psychology and teaching. This career dose not interest me because I am not really good at solving problems.” • “Where Dr. Mayas work they use a ph scale. The ph scale measures how acidic or basic a substance is. The ph scale ranges from 0 to 14. A ph of 7 is neutral. A ph less that 7 is acidic. A ph greater than 7 is basic. She also works with finding the effects that cause cancer. Since they are unable to use people they use yeast to substitute DNA. Which I so amazing because yeast is a fungus and also an eukaryotic that is use as an alcohol product and it is also used to make bread. “

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37. Science on a budgetChemistry of Life • Phospholipid Bilayer Models • Q-tips, straws, glue • Halve Q-tips, cotton end = hydrophillic, other end = hydrophobic • Straw sections as protein channels • Construct and label structure • Relate to cell structure

38. Scientific Method • “UFOs!: Unidentified Floating Objects” • Materials: ginger ale, raisins, large glass beaker • Set up beakers right before class by pouring in fresh ginger ale in and dropping in 5 or so raisins. • Students will observe raisins rising and falling over and over • Follow steps of scientific method to determine why

39. Scientific Method • Will it float? - Good planning lab • Demo - Coke can will sink, Diet Coke will float • Have students record observations, ask a question, and write a hypothesis • Provide other variables for them to use to test – Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Cherry Coke, Vanilla Coke, Coke Zero, Diet Coke with Splenda, Decaffeinated Coke • Record observations, discuss conclusions