Earth and Environmental Science Educator's Institute: Connecting Models and Evidence Agenda

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MEL PD NJ Participants 2021

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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

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• 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

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• Intro Welcome Consent (Acrobat (PDF) 1.4MB Aug4 21)
• Session Video & Chat

8:30 AM to 10:00 AM

Linking Scientific Models and Evidence

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• 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

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• 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

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• Plausibility & Climate Change (Acrobat (PDF) 9.6MB Aug4 21)
• [Session Video & Chat]
• Plausibility Ranking Task (Acrobat (PDF) 158kB Jun25 19)

Climate Change MEL

• Climate Change MEL Teaching Resources

12:00 PM to 12:15 PM

Wrap Up

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End of Day 1

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Dr. Christopher Roemmele facilitating the Moon pcMEL

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Why teach about the Moon?

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Day 2

8:00 AM to 8:30 AM

MEL Architecture - Theory to Practice

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• 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)

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• 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)

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• 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

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• 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)

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• Freshwater baMEL (Acrobat (PDF) 7.7MB Aug5 21)
• [Session Video & Chat]

12:00 PM to 12:15 PM

Wrap Up

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End of Day 2

Day 3

8:00 AM to 8:10 AM

Check-in & Questions

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• 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

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• 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)

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• 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

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• 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

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• MEL Project Teacher Guide (Acrobat (PDF) 4.6MB May24 21)
• [Session Video & Chat]

10:30 AM to 11:00 AM

Transfer Task

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• Transfer Task (Acrobat (PDF) 10.1MB Aug6 21)
• [Session Video & Chat]

11:30 AM to 11:35 AM

Participant Implementation Plans

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• Dr. Tim Klavon guides discussion of teacher implementation plans.
• [Session Video & Chat]

11:35 AM to 11:45 AM

Evaluation

11:45 AM to 12:00 PM

Meeting with Teachers interested in Research