Program

Please plan to arrive at IslandWood in time for the 4:00 pm start on Wednesday, August 1st, and depart after 2:00 pm on Friday, August 3rd.

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Wednesday, August 1st

Afternoon: Participants arrive at IslandWood ( This site may be offline. ) and check in to accommodations. Note that rooms are not available until 4:00 pm—please feel free to bring luggage to the learning center as needed.

Location: Learning Studio 102

4:00 – 4:30 pm Introductions and ice-breaker

4:30 - 6:00 pm Engagement - Participation in an InTeGrate activity and analyzing it

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Workshop participants at work in the Learning Studio at IslandWood

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• Climate of Change, Unit 2, Case study 2.1: Climate variability in the equatorial Pacific
• Analysis of activity using practices web (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 144kB Aug2 18)

6:00 - 7:00 pm Dinner in dining hall (family style)

7:00 - 8:00 pm NGSS, InTeGrate, and you

• Overview slides (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 31MB Aug2 18): Presentation and discussion of needs and resources
• Introduction to practices web (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 107kB Aug2 18) and action plans
• Image of practices web (TIFF 94kB Aug3 18)
• End of day road check

Thursday, August 2nd

7:30 - 8:30 am Breakfast in dining hall (buffet style)

8:30 – 8:45 am Introduction to the day

8:45 - 10:00 am Content area working groups: Discuss findings from exploring modules and begin to work on practices web

• Climate: Climate of Change, Earth's Thermostat, Regulating Carbon Emissions
• Joe Behnke, Danielle DeRousse, Kendra Robinson-Harding
• Working group page
• Water: Interactions between Water, Earth's Surface, and Human Activity, Water: Science and Society, Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources
• Nessa Goldman, Jennifer Stadum, Gale Vasquez
• Working group page
• Biosphere: Changing Biosphere, Carbon, Climate, and Energy Resources, A Growing Concern: Sustaining Soil Resources through Local Decisions
• Theresa Bell, Holly Ellingson, Jacob Troyer
• Working group page
• Oceans and Coasts: Ocean sustainability, Unit 2 of Exploring Geoscience Methods, Coastal Processes, Hazards, and Society
• Joe Balsiger, Josh Jordan, Alicia McGraw
• Working group page

10:00 - 10:15 am Report out from working groups

• What have you decided to focus on within your topic area?
• What activities are there that you can use?
• What additional activities/strategies do you need?

10:15 - 10:30 am Break

10:30 - 11:30 am Content area working groups: Continue working on practices web and adding cross-cutting concepts

11:30 - 11:45 am Report out from content area working groups

11:45 am - 12:00 pm Begin personal action plan: How will these materials fit into your teaching?

12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch in dining hall (family style)

1:00 - 1:30 pm Group discussion: Sustainability and place and adding local examples

Soils, Systems and Society

Slides Soils, Systems and Society activity (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 2MB Aug2 18)

1:30 - 2:30 pm IslandWood garden and sustainability tour

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Group photo of workshop participants in the Living Machine at IslandWood.

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2:30 - 3:00 pm Group discussion: Incorporating systems thinking

3:00 - 3:30 pm Break and snack

3:30 - 4:30 pm Back to content area working groups to discuss adding systems thinking and local examples

• Add ideas to group workspace
• Add ideas to personal action plan

4:30 - 5:30 pm Report out: report out on development and get feedback from the group

5:30 - 5:45 pm Reflection and end of day roadcheck.

6:00 - 7:00 pm Dinner in dining hall (family style)

7:00 - 8:30 pm Continue group work and action plan development based on feedback

Friday, August 3rd

7:30 - 8:30 am Breakfast in dining hall (buffet style)

8:30 – 8:45 am Introduction to the day

• Review of roadcheck responses
• Plan for completing work

8:45 - 10:00 am Working groups

• Finalize practice webs with list of activities and cross-cutting concepts
• Prepare for review by others

10:00 - 10:15 am Coffee Break

Drawing systems diagrams

• Unit 1: Introduction to Systems of Systems Thinking module introduces vocabulary and a basic systems diagram using a bathtub and a news story about fires in Minnesota
• Unit 2: Picturing complexity describes how to draw a systems diagram and label more complex systems diagrams with quantities (fluxes and volumes)

10:15 - 11:00 am Review

• Climate and Biosphere review each others' workspace pages
• Water and Oceans & Coasts review each others' pages
• 10:15 - 10:40: exploration
• 10:40 - 10:50: explanation from 1st group
• 10:50 - 11:00: explanation from 2nd group

11:00 - 11:30 am Feedback from reviewers

11:30 am - 12:00 pm Make modifications as needed to respond to reviews

12:00 - 1:00 pm Box lunch pick-up in dining hall, finalize personal action plans

1:00 - 1:40 pm Group discussion: Synthesis, next steps for you, and next steps for InTeGrate

1:40 - 2:00 pm End of Workshop Evaluation

2:00 pm Departure