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.