[neact] FW: Modeling Workshops Summer 2014
- From: Stephen Stepenuck <sstepenuck@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:09:47 -0400
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Subject: Modeling Workshops Summer 2014
Dear Science community,
As the American Modeling Teachers Association (AMTA) outreach coordinator, I
would like to ask you to share the information below on Modeling Instruction
and the Modeling workshops offered this summer with your local science
community.
50 SUMMER MODELING WORKSHOPS NATIONWIDE
Modeling Workshops in high school physics, chemistry, biology, and
junior high physical science will be offered this summer in many states.
Most workshops are two or three weeks long. Modeling Instruction is
designated as an Exemplary K-12 science program by the U.S. Department of
Education. Modeling Workshops thoroughly address most aspects of high school
science teaching, including integration of teaching methods with course
content. Workshops incorporate up-to-date results of physics and science
education research, best high school curriculum materials, use of
technology, and experience in collaborative learning and guidance.
Participants are introduced to the Modeling Method as a systematic
approach to design of curriculum and instruction. The name Modeling
Instruction expresses an emphasis on making and using conceptual models of
physical, chemical, and biological phenomena as central to learning and
doing science. Mathematics instruction is integrated seamlessly throughout
each course by an emphasis on mathematical modeling.
In each workshop, content for an entire semester course is reorganized
around models to increase its structural coherence. Participants are
supplied with a complete set of course materials and work through activities
alternately in roles of student or teacher. Teachers use computers as
scientific tools to collect, organize, analyze, visualize, and model real
data.
Website: http://modelinginstruction.org/teachers/workshops and Workshop
descriptions: http://www.phystec.org/pd/?set=Modeling
MODELING WORKSHOPS have these features:
* aligned with Common Core Math Standards and ELA.
* includes all 8 scientific practices of NRC Framework for K-12 Science
Education.
* addresses multiple learning styles.
* addresses naive student conceptions.
* collaboration, creativity, communication, and critical thinking.
* systems, models, modeling.
* coherent curriculum framework, but not a curriculum; thus flexible.
* compatible with Socratic methods & project-based instruction.
* science & math literacy.
* authentic assessments.
* high-tech and low-tech options for labs.
Models and theories are the purpose and the outcomes of scientific
practices. They are the tools for engineering design and problem solving. As
such, modeling guides all other practices.
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Sincerely,
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Wendy Hehemann
American Modeling Teachers Association
Modeling Workshop and Outreach Coordinator
http://modelinginstruction.org/
wendy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
480-854-4764
Save the date!
June 28-30, 2014
The first Annual Modeling retreat at Camp Tontozona
Payson, Arizona
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