STEM Leadership Team January 8, 2013

Welcome! As you arrive, please form grade-level groups of 4-6 people. Help yourself to snacks and drinks. Make a name tent for yourself by folding a piece of paper in half, writing your name on both outside pieces, and writing your grade level and school on the inside.

Announcements Welcome! STEM Leadership Dates— 2/5, 3/5, 4/9, 5/7, 6/4 Living Systems Pt. Defiance Zoo & Aquarium on 1/15 from 4:15-7:15 PM—register on the online PD calendar Ecosystems Pt. Defiance Zoo & Aquarium on 1/28 from 4:15-7:15 PM-- Slater UPS on January 23 4:15-7:15 PM Puget Sound Super Heroes: Pt. Defiance, FOSS Seaport & City of Tacoma (5 th Grade Only) ---3 teachers from Skyline, 1 Lister, & 2 Birney Puget Sound Creek Restoration Society: Carole Stow, Uyen Christiansen, Stephanie Lawrence, Cheryl Hackinen, Eileen McCaffery-Lent Science and Literacy: March 7 & 21, will include new science/literacy guides Snacks—Amy Maarsingh, Carole Stow, Janine Doney, Sue Keene

Norms / Promoting a Spirit of inquiry / Pausing / Paraphrasing—revoiceing / Probing / Putting ideas on the table / Paying Attention to self and others / Presuming positive intentions / Promoting a Spirit of inquiry / Pausing / Paraphrasing—revoiceing / Probing / Putting ideas on the table / Paying Attention to self and others / Presuming positive intentions

What’s the Work for ? Two items that we will focus on today— 1.Looking at and identifying the BIG Ideas in FOSS. 2.Connecting BIG Ideas to STEM, especially engineering.

Learning Targets I can describe a strategy to identify Big Ideas in FOSS. I can describe and explain ways that I can advocate for science/STEM instruction in my building.

1. Write a “great” idea that is working well around science instruction in your classroom and/or building on a 3 x 5 card. 2.Find someone in the room who is not at your table. Share your ideas. Paraphrase and inquire so you can share your partner’s card and information with another person. 3.At a signal, trade cards. 4.Locate a new partner and share your new card and information. 5.At a signal, return to table groups. Share what you learned. Debrief Give One Get One

Connecting WA Standards to FOSS: Going Deeper WA Standards Big Ideas in FOSS

--Move into grade level groups. --Select a FOSS module that your group would like to work on together. Task: In grade-level groups: Review the curriculum map for your grade-level/content strand/FOSS module. Identify BIG IDEA(s) in the Module and ideas that connect to each investigation. BIG IDEA

Confirm that the identified standards on the map connect well to the module and/or its investigations. Use the Report Card Continuum to identify places in the module where the report card descriptor is addressed and met. Find opportunities for explicit instruction around the SYSTEMS EALR 1 beyond what the publisher has identified. Note specific points/evidence within the activity that cause you to believe so and that would be helpful for other teachers to know. What changes would you include to make BIG ideas more explicit for students? Vocabulary, note book entries, close observations, claims and evidence, etc. Record changes and ideas on one curriculum map. Please include the names of everyone who worked on the map.

Take a Break!!

Continue with Curriculum Maps or add next layer?

As science teachers begin to take their first steps in moving toward the next generation science standards, we recommend integrating essential features when learning to teach science using the engineering design process. These features: 1.Motivate students through real-world situations and challenge them to chart their own course of action while applying science concepts and fostering a sense of curiosity, innovation and collaboration. 2.These features provide a useable framework for teachers to craft their own engineering design-based tasks, related assessments and cross-disciplinary activities.

Essential Features of Engineering Design Carousel

Engineering Practices Big Ideas in FOSS WA Standards Add Engineering Practices

On an index card please respond to the following: 1.What will you take back and share at your school? 2.Next time—be ready to share the strategy, lesson, instructional practice that you shared at your school and with whom you shared Sum it up