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Page 1: Project-Based Inquiry Science NSTA Presentation Mary Starr, PhD MLSTARR@comcast.net December 2008 Welcome.

Project-BasedProject-BasedInquiry ScienceInquiry Science

NSTA PresentationNSTA Presentation

Mary Starr, PhDMary Starr, [email protected]@comcast.net

December 2008December 2008

WelcomWelcomee

Page 2: Project-Based Inquiry Science NSTA Presentation Mary Starr, PhD MLSTARR@comcast.net December 2008 Welcome.

PBIS is....

❖ Focused on student engagement in Big Questions and Big Challenges

❖ Developed with the goal of creating opportunities for students to engage in the practices of scientists: exploring, discussing, collaborating, asking questions

❖ A full 3- year middle school science curriculum; Earth Science, Life Science and Physical Science

❖ Aligned with NSES and standards/objectives from many states

❖ Consistent with reform-based research that encourages students to explore and investigate, make meaning, share meaning and asking more questions

Page 3: Project-Based Inquiry Science NSTA Presentation Mary Starr, PhD MLSTARR@comcast.net December 2008 Welcome.

Complete Three-Year Middle School

Curriculum❖ Life Science

❖ Animals In Action

❖ Living Together

❖ Genetics

❖ Good Friends and Germs

❖ Earth Science

❖ Digging In

❖ Planetary Forecaster

❖ Ever Changing Earth

❖ Underground City

❖ Astronomy

❖ Physical Science

❖ Diving In

❖ Vehicles in Motion

❖ Moving Big Things

❖ Air Quality

❖ Energy

Page 4: Project-Based Inquiry Science NSTA Presentation Mary Starr, PhD MLSTARR@comcast.net December 2008 Welcome.

Students working like scientists....

Ask Questions

Pursue Answers

Share Answers

Make Meaning

Apply Meaning

Page 5: Project-Based Inquiry Science NSTA Presentation Mary Starr, PhD MLSTARR@comcast.net December 2008 Welcome.

Launcher Units❖ Identifying criteria and constraints

❖ Design an investigation

❖ Collecting data

❖ Observing trends in data

❖ Iteration

❖ Keeping records

❖ Copying versus giving credit

❖ Collaboration

❖ Messing about

❖ Variables; Different kinds of variables

❖ Designing experiments

Page 6: Project-Based Inquiry Science NSTA Presentation Mary Starr, PhD MLSTARR@comcast.net December 2008 Welcome.

Three Launcher Units

❖ Diving In - Physical Science

❖ Animals in Action - Life Science

❖ Digging In - Earth Science

Page 7: Project-Based Inquiry Science NSTA Presentation Mary Starr, PhD MLSTARR@comcast.net December 2008 Welcome.

Animals in Action

❖ Big Question - How do scientists work together....?

❖ Big Challenge - Create a zoo enclosure that allows an animal to behave as they do in their natural habitat.

❖ Behaviors: Feeding and Communicating

Page 8: Project-Based Inquiry Science NSTA Presentation Mary Starr, PhD MLSTARR@comcast.net December 2008 Welcome.

What tools or strategies do bees use to forage?

❖ Bees need to save energy...carefully choose which flowers to forage.

Page 9: Project-Based Inquiry Science NSTA Presentation Mary Starr, PhD MLSTARR@comcast.net December 2008 Welcome.

What do we expect in middle school science?

Students must....

1. know, use, and interpret scientific explanations of the natural world;

2. generate and evaluate scientific evidence and explanations;

Excerpted from: Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8 http://books.nap.edu/catalog/11625.html

Page 10: Project-Based Inquiry Science NSTA Presentation Mary Starr, PhD MLSTARR@comcast.net December 2008 Welcome.

What do we expect in middle school science?

Students must....

3. understand the nature and development of scientific knowledge; and

4. participate productively in scientific practices and discourse.

Page 11: Project-Based Inquiry Science NSTA Presentation Mary Starr, PhD MLSTARR@comcast.net December 2008 Welcome.

Creating Explanations❖ Claim – a statement of what

you understand or a conclusion that you have reached from an investigation or set of investigations

❖ Evidence – data collected during investigations and trends in that data

❖ Science knowledge – knowledge about how things work. You may have learned this through reading, talking to an expert, discussion, or other experiences.

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PBISContent within Context

❖ PBIS content is always developed within a context

❖ PBIS content is usually built iteratively, slowly over time

❖ PBIS content and processes are used together to support each other

❖ PBIS supports critical 21st century knowledge development like: creating explanations, argumentation, problem solving, listening to other’s understanding

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PBIS supports❖ Science as a Process of Logical Reasoning About

Evidence

❖ Science as a Process of Theory Change

❖ Science as a Process of Participation in the Culture of Scientific Practices

❖ Science as a Process of Participation in the Culture of Scientific Practices

❖ 21st century understand of theory, evidence, hypothesis, argumentation, and claim


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