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Science and Engineering Practices in Action
This Hamline University-developed FREE workshop includes six self-facilitating modules to "raise awareness of the importance of the practices in science teaching and provide strategies for teaching science and engineering practices more directly and more often."
The modules include:
- Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering)
- Developing and using models
- Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering)
- Planning and Carrying Out Investigations and Analyzing Data
- Arguing from Evidence
- Evaluating and Communicating Information
Each module is designed for groups of science teachers, e.g., professional learning communities (PLC) or curriculum teams (CT), at any grade level or mixed grade levels, to review and discuss a single practice in a series of 20-30 minute sessions totaling about 10 hours of professional development per module. These modules provide a convenient, self-placed, teacher-focused set of professional development "workshops" in science practices and science teaching.
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