1. Professional Development in Science Processing Scientific Data February 2014

2. Learning Goal Investigate a model of instruction to engage students in scientific inquiry. Success Criterion Create a plan to purposefully spiral scientific processes into current lesson plans.

3. Intentional Science Conversation

4. Question Focus Capture the students’ interest and provide them with a reason to design and carry out an investigation. Get students to ASK QUESTIONS!!! Reaction Time

5. How QUICK are you? Or Download one of the free apps – search “Reaction Time” Will using the non-preferred hand affect reaction time?

6. Experiment and Collect Data Variation: Give students sets of data

7. Give Students a Set of Data

8. Analyze and Explain the Data Make sense of the data collected and develop a conclusion based on evidence. Create a display to include the question, the claim, the support, and the explanation.

9. Simple but Effective The Question: Will using the non-preferred hand affect reaction time? The Claim The Support (Insert Data) The Explanation (Include Data and Research) This graphic organizer helps students WRITE a conclusion!!!

10. Share Data and Explanation students share their arguments and critique the arguments of their classmates. each team has an opportunity to revise their arguments in order to make them better. Shift 4: Read, write and discuss text based evidence

11. Write an Investigation report Goal of the investigation or Hypothesis Methods used during the investigation to collect data Final Argument or Conclusion Format could be a graphic organizer, paragraph, power point, etc. Shift 5: Write from multiple sources

12. Increase Rigor in Assessments

13. PLC Suggestion Identify areas where you can add more data processing lessons. Share one of your best resources for collecting data or obtaining data sets Set a goal to add one data processing activity this month and try it! Next month share your experience.

14. Let’s take a break

15. PLC Professional Learning Community

16. Resources ACT http://www.actstudent.org/testprep/descriptions/scidescript.html NASA Data Sets http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/ Reaction Time Sheep game http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/sheep/react ion_version5.swf Using the Scientific Method to Measure Multitasking and Response Time http://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/response_time.html#a t_pco=smlre-1.0&at_tot=4&at_ab=per-13&at_pos=2