Millard E. Lightburn, Ph.D.
District Science Supervisor m.lightburn@dadeschools.net
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Welcome Remarks
Unity Builder
Construct name tent:
Front: First Name
Back: School, Grade Level, and Teaching experience
Please share information on tent and something exciting that happened in your classroom last year.
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Norms
Outcome
Qualitative and Quantitative observations
Unwrapping Benchmarks
Constructivism strategies
Implementing the Pacing Guides
Effective Science Learning strategies
Inquiry Based Laboratory (IBL)
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Explore aspects of the nature of science
(NOS) as it is embedded in content lab and exploration activities
Become familiar with the benchmarks in the
Pacing Guide with emphasis on hands-on activities from Essential Labs
Explore hands-on activities designed to promote understanding of specific science content and the nature of science using constructivism approach.
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Can you distinguish between a Quantitative and a Qualitative observation?
Activity worksheet
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In our Hands-on laboratory activities for today you will make qualitative and quantitative observations.
Qualitative Observations: Use senses to observe results. (sight, smell, touch, taste, hear)
Quantitative Observations: Are made with tools or instruments such as rulers, balances, graduated cylinders, beakers, thermometers
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Prerequisite Skills
◦ What knowledge, understanding, or reasoning will you require to achieve this benchmark?
Vocabulary
◦ What vocabulary needs to be understood to achieve this benchmark?
Achievement Criteria
◦ What performance skills or products will you require to demonstrate achievement of this benchmark?
Extending Learning
◦ How will you differentiate instruction to extend the learning of the standard?
How will you assess achievement?
◦ What test or performance will give you data about student progress toward achievement of this benchmark?

Differentiated Accountability Summer Academy
Unwrapping Benchmarks
Benchmark Number_____________________ Content Cluster ___________________
Benchmark: ___________________________________________________________
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Prerequisite Skills
What knowledge, understanding, or reasoning is required to achieve this benchmark?
Vocabulary
What vocabulary needs to be understood to achieve this benchmark?
Achievement Criteria
What performance skills or product skills are required to demonstrate achievement on this benchmark?
How will you assess achievement?
What test or performance will give you data about student progress toward achievement of this benchmark?
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Emphasizing Biology Content in Earth Space
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SC.912.N.8.4 Explore the scientific theory of atoms by describing the structure of atoms.
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Source: Essential Laboratory
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Using the Unpacking Benchmarks
Worksheet, discuss:
◦ How will you teach the labs? Describe methodology and questioning strategies.
◦ Constraints/limitations. What do you expect your students to find challenging about these ideas?
◦ Modifications. Do you anticipate any modification to the lab/activity?

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Good scientists reflect on their work by writing a lab report. A lab report is a recap of what a scientist investigated. It is made up of the following parts.
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Data
Benchmark
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Data Analysis
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Problem Statement
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(Research question)
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Hypothesis
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Procedures (summarize)
Variable/Control
Results/Discussion
Conclusion
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The objective of the Power Writing Model is to challenge students to write quality reports and enhance inquiry in science through writing.
The Power Writing Model Conclusion answers seven basic questions that serve as a model for students to improve their performance in the “Florida Writes” test.
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What was investigated? (Describe the problem statement)
Was the hypothesis supported by the data?
What were the major findings?
How did your findings compare with other researchers?
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5. What possible explanations can you offer for your findings?
6. What recommendations do you have for further study and for improving the experiment?
7. What are some possible applications of the experiment?
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Constructivism is a learning strategy that draws on students' existing knowledge, beliefs, and skills. With a constructivist approach, information.
students synthesize new understanding from prior learning and new
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The constructivist teacher sets up problems and monitors student exploration, guides student inquiry, and promotes new patterns of thinking. Working mostly with raw data, primary sources, and interactive material, constructivist teaching asks students to work with their own data and learn to direct their own explorations. Ultimately, students begin to think of learning as accumulated, evolving knowledge.
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The 5 E's is an instructional model based on the constructivist approach to learning, which says that learners build or construct new ideas on top of their old ideas.
Engage : Stimulate involvement
Explore : Involve student in activity
Explain : Put abstract experience in communicable form
Elaborate : Expand on concepts learned
Evaluate: To determine if student attained understanding of concepts and knowlege
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SC.912.L16.1Describe and differentiate the layers of Earth and the interactions among them.
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Source: Essential Laboratory
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1. Observe
2. Classify
3. Estimate/Measure
4. Infer
5. Predict
6. Make/use Model
7. Hypothesis
8. Collect data
9.Interpret data
10. Investigate and Experiment
11. Communicate
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Effective science learning enable students to:
◦ Engage in quantitative and qualitative observations;
◦ Investigate thoughtful questions;
◦ Make logical predictions;
◦ Design and conduct experiments;
◦ Collect and organize data;
◦ Explore possible conclusions;
◦ Make well-reasoned, data based decisions
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Use Five E’s (Engage, Explore, Explain,
Elaborate, Evaluate)
Use Inquiry (Directed, Guided and Full)
Think-Pair-Share
Differentiated Instruction (Centers)
Cooperative Learning
Utilize Graphic Organizers
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How do we make student thinking explicit during scientific inquiry?
Jigsaw Activity: Assessment
Group 1: Informative Questioning Cycle and
Setting and Aligning Goals.
Group 2: Eliciting Student Responses + Fig 1
Group 3: Recognizing Student Responses + Fig 2
Group 4: Acting on Student Responses + Fig 3
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SC.912.E.6.2 Connect surface features to surface processes that are responsible for their formation
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Source: Essential Laboratories
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Using the Unpacking Benchmarks
Worksheet, discuss:
◦ How will you teach the labs? Describe methodology and questioning strategies.
◦ Constraints/limitations. What do you expect your students to find challenging about these ideas?
◦ Modifications. Do you anticipate any modification to the lab/activity?

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Here is a sample of DI in a Grade 5 Science
How many centers can you identify in this video?
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