Program



February 9

4:00-4:30
Welcoming remarks, workshop goals and introduction

4:30-5:00
30 second introductions

5:00-6:30
Sharing posters and demos

6:30-8:00
Dinner

February 10

8:30-9:30
Setting Learning Goals (introduction, activity, discussion)
Tom Boyd, Colorado School of Mines; Cathy Manduca, Carleton College

9:30-10:30
Fostering Critical Thinking (introduction, activity, discussion)
Nancy Butler-Songer, University of Michigan

10:30-10:50 Break

10:50-11:50
Designing Assessments into Activities that meet Learning Goals (introduction, activity, discussion)
Nancy Butler-Songer, University of Michigan

11:50-1:00 Lunch

1:00-3:00
Supporting Students for Understanding, and Sequencing Activities to Guide Scientific Inquiry
Mimi Recker, Utah State University

3:00-3:20 Break

3:20-4:00
Individual reflections and whole group discussion
  • What have we learned?
  • Group discussion of mechanisms for sharing this knowledge more widely

4:00-5:30
Develop project groups and initiate

6:00-7:30 Dinner

after dinner
Free time for groups to work, and for informal networking

February 11

8:30-10:00
Project groups work with consultation from workshop leaders

10:00-12:00
  • Finalize high priority lessons, principles, themes or tenets for further dissemination in the geoscience community
  • Develop recommendations for dissemination, and a plan for phase 2 activities
  • Initiate next steps

12:00-12:30 Box lunch

12:30-1:45
Presentations of group work focusing on new aspects of activities resulting from workshops

1:45-2:00
Closing remarks, evaluation, reminder of next steps.