Earth and Environmental Science Educator's Institute: Connecting Models and Evidence Agenda
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The New Jersey Earth and Environmental Science Educator's Institute was held from August 4 -6, 2021. If you were a participant, you have access to the Google Classroom with team documents. The files below are the equivalent of a three-ring binder that you might typically receive at a face-to-face workshop, but with the added bonus that you have access to all the slide presentations plus video recordings and captured chat during the sessions. If you were not a participant in the workshop, we encourage you to watch the session videos and engage in the activities as self-guided, professional development. We are eager for educators to incorporate MEL scaffolds into their teaching.
Pre-Institute Webinar
- This webinar sets the stage for the summer Institute by providing a common language when it comes to discussing 3-dimensional teaching and learning. It also highlights the role of critical evaluation in most of the scientific practices and in particular, in engaging in argument from evidence.
- Recording & Slides
Day 1
8:00 AM to 8:15 AM
Icebreaker
- Pick your favorite color and answer a question that helps others get to know you.
- Color Icebreaker (Acrobat (PDF) 310kB Aug4 21)
- Session Video & Chat
8:15 AM to 8:30 AM
Welcome and Logistics
- Intro Welcome Consent (Acrobat (PDF) 1.4MB Aug4 21)
- Session Video & Chat
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM
Linking Scientific Models and Evidence
- Linking Scientific Models and Evidence (Acrobat (PDF) 21.4MB Aug4 21)
- Session Video & Chat
- Audi "My Dad's a Space Alien"
- Argumentation in Science Education (Acrobat (PDF) 709kB Jun8 21)
- New Study Zeros in on Plate Tectonics (Acrobat (PDF) 79kB Jun8 21)
- Model Evidence Classification Task (Acrobat (PDF) 84kB Jun25 19)
More Linking Scientific Models and Evidence Articles
- Greenland's Coasts Are Growing As Seas Rise (Acrobat (PDF) 120kB Jun8 21)
- Fracking -- not wastewater disposal -- linked to most induced earthquakes in Western Canada
- Creeping Catastrophes (Acrobat (PDF) 4MB Jun8 21)
- Origin of Earth's Oceans (Acrobat (PDF) 50kB Jun8 21)
- New Source of Global Nitrogen Discovered (Acrobat (PDF) 127kB Jun8 21)
- Republican lawmaker: Rocks tumbling into ocean causing sea level rise
- The Flat Earth Theory has seen a resurgence with people trying to prove our planet is not a sphere
10:00 AM to 10:15 AM
Break
10:15 AM to 10:45 AM
Virtual MEL
- Virtual MEL (Acrobat (PDF) 2.7MB Jun9 21)
- [Session Video & Chat]
- Link to Mote Extension
10:45 AM to 12:00 PM
Plausibility and Climate Change
- Plausibility & Climate Change (Acrobat (PDF) 9.6MB Aug4 21)
- [Session Video & Chat]
- Plausibility Ranking Task (Acrobat (PDF) 158kB Jun25 19)
Climate Change MEL
12:00 PM to 12:15 PM
Wrap Up
End of Day 1
Dr. Christopher Roemmele facilitating the Moon pcMEL
Why teach about the Moon?
Day 2
8:00 AM to 8:30 AM
MEL Architecture - Theory to Practice
- MEL Architecture-Theory to Practice (Acrobat (PDF) 22.1MB Aug5 21)
- [Session Video & Chat]
8:30 AM to 9:15 AM
Moon pcMEL (Student Hat)
- Where did the Moon come from? (Acrobat (PDF) 48.8MB Aug5 21)
- [Session Video & Chat]
9:15 AM to 10:00 AM
Assessing Explanation Tasks (Teacher Hat)
- Assessing Explanation Tasks (Acrobat (PDF) 29MB Aug5 21)
- [Session Video & Chat]
10:00 AM to 10:15 AM
Break
10:15 AM to 11:15 AM
Talk Moves
- Talk Moves - Promoting Rich Discussion in the Classroom (Acrobat (PDF) 22.7MB Aug5 21)
- Session Video & Chat
- Encouraging Academic Conversations with Talk Moves
- Talk Science Primer (Acrobat (PDF) 880kB Aug6 21)
- Talk Moves (Acrobat (PDF) 29kB Aug6 21)
11:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Freshwater baMEL (Student Hat)
- Freshwater baMEL (Acrobat (PDF) 7.7MB Aug5 21)
- [Session Video & Chat]
12:00 PM to 12:15 PM
Wrap Up
End of Day 2
Day 3
8:00 AM to 8:10 AM
Check-in & Questions
- Dr. Janelle Bailey answers teachers' questions.
8:10 AM to 8:40 AM
Revisiting Using the Explanation Task Rubric to help Move Students from Beginning Level to Mastery Level of SEP's and CCC's
- Dr. Missy Holzer guides teachers in assessing student responses on the Explanation Task.
- [Session Video & Chat]
8:40 AM to 9:30 AM
Origins of the Universe baMEL (Student Hat)
- Origins of the Universe baMEL (Acrobat (PDF) 13MB Aug6 21)
- [Session Video & Chat]
9:30 AM to 10:00 AM
Compare and Contrast pcMELs with baMELs
- Compare & Contrast pcMEL & baMEL (Acrobat (PDF) 1.6MB Aug6 21)
- [Session Video & Chat]
10:00 AM to 10:15 AM
Break
10:15 AM to 10:30 AM
Teacher Guide Overview
- MEL Project Teacher Guide (Acrobat (PDF) 2.3MB Jun3 26)
- [Session Video & Chat]
10:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Transfer Task
- Transfer Task (Acrobat (PDF) 10.1MB Aug6 21)
- [Session Video & Chat]
11:30 AM to 11:35 AM
Participant Implementation Plans
- Dr. Tim Klavon guides discussion of teacher implementation plans.
- [Session Video & Chat]