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== 2. Check out the NSTA website: [] Here is the link to student/preservice teacher application: []. I will sign your application, if you wish to join. The local NSTA affiliate is called STOM (Science Teachers of Missouri). More information can be found at []. ==

== 3. We heard a lot about one particular publisher of textbook, and we all have had them in classes from an early age. What do you think? What role do textbooks have in the (science) classroom? Has / will / can /should technology replace textbooks? ==

5. Have you solidified an opinion since the beginning of class? If so, explain one or more topics where you thinking was affirmed.
= ** July 2: ** = === 1. When should Differentiated Instruction be used? Should all students have the same opportunity? ===

=== 2. What is the difference: ‘What gets rewarded gets done’ vs. ‘What is rewarding gets done.’ Which is truer for you? ===

=== 3. How are the skills you used in solving LEGO Challenges considered Science/ STEM? Isn't is just playing with LEGOs? ===

=== 4. Name two science standards at your target grade level that are not part of your unit. Describe how you would meet them with an engineering (design-build-test-redesign) lesson. ===

=== 5. What advantage would there be to giving students choice about how to demonstrate what they have learned? Any disadvantages? ===

=== 6. The Solar Oven unit isn't really about Solar Ovens. What is its goal/purpose? ===

=== 7. If you were to share one key thing from the Preparing Creative and Critical Thinker article, what would it be? ===

=== 8. Which of the tools from the Creative Problem Solver's Toolbox would you use (or not use) in your classroom and why? ===


 * Week 5: How can I make subject matter, matter? (Focus Content: Engineering) **
 * Build a Solar Oven (PBL)
 * Differentiated Instruction **
 * Teaching Channel **[|**https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/developing-better-questions?utm_campaign=digest&utm_medium=email&utm_source=digest**]


 * Building Understanding -LEGOs – are you kidding me? (Task List in MS)
 * Responsive Classroom Modeling
 * Connecting to modern issues and current events
 * Defining differentiated instruction & strategies (Tiering, compacting, contracting, pre-assessment. )
 * Light a light bulb Activity in US
 * Classroom Centers / The Science Workshop Model: insulator, conductor, bulbs, batteries, genecon
 * Buckets
 * Next Generation Science Standards / Framework
 * Who will present week 7 and who will present week 8?

Assignment: Develop a lesson that allows every student to be successful. Draft due week 6. Compile a list of Community Science Resources Improve your solar cooker. Goal of 76ºC take a photo to prove it Read Preparing Creative and Critical Thinkers Book Review due Week 6. Prepare to Teach your lesson Week 7 or week 8 What is your science teaching philosophy? One sheet of paper in your own words due Week 8

Journal/Blog: How can the teacher connect content to the real world? Why take the time to connect them? What is Differentiated Instruction and when should it be used? Shouldn’t all students have the same opportunity? What is the difference: ‘What gets rewarded gets done’ vs. ‘What is rewarding gets done.’ Which is truer for you? Did gender make a difference in the approaches students used in solving logic problems or LEGO Challenges? Name two science standards at your target grade level that are not part of your unit. Describe how you would meet them with an engineering lesson.

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What unit topic will you seek to develop?
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=== What role does technology play in schools? Too much, too little? Is it the teacher’s responsibility to teach the tech or expect a certain level of expertise on the part of students, or should tech be avoided? How does technology fit into pedagogy and curriculum building? === =include component="comments" page="page:zz Bob" limit="10"= =June 4: Journal 1:= Evolution of People....yes space is involved: I usually don't use Foxnews.com as sources for class, but a friend sent this today. Based on our conversation (an my opinion) in class last Tuesday, I thought it relevant. [|Humans in 100,000 years: What will we look like?] Be sure to scroll the pictures and read the captions.

===[|Harry S Truman State Park’s public beach remains temporarily closed for water quality issues] === The state park beach at Harry S Truman located in Warsaw remains closed following results of water samples taken Monday that indicated bacteria levels higher than those recommended for waters used for swimming. The department collects water samples from all designated beaches in the state park system weekly during the recreational season to determine suitability for swimming. Beaches will be closed for high bacteria when a single E. coli sample exceeds 235 cfu/100ml or when the geometric mean – a 30-day rolling average – exceeds 126 cfu/100 ml. The sample test results indicate a snap shot of the water quality taken at the beaches at a specific time; however, a single sample does not provide an overall sense of the water quality in the lake where the beach is located. The department will post the information about the beach status on the website at dnr.mo.gov as well as mostateparks.com. Visitors to Missouri State Parks are able to sign up to receive free electronic notices about the status of state park beaches while visiting the department’s beach status website.

===What was the best idea/concept/procedure you took away tonight?===

===This is how I would expand this idea…===

===What question do you wish you asked in class (This could be about a topic, the class or the classroom)?===

===What did you find interesting about the methods and ideas shared in the video Changing Education Paradigms? What July 9th:===

1. 10 minute Inquiry: Sustainability: What is it? Does it belong in the Science curriculum?

2. Check out the NSTA website: [] Here is the link to student/preservice teacher application: []. I will sign your application, if you wish to join. The local NSTA affiliate is called STOM (Science Teachers of Missouri). More information can be found at [].

3. We heard a lot about one particular publisher of textbook, and we all have had them in classes from an early age. What do you think? What role do textbooks have in the (science) classroom? Has / will / can /should technology replace textbooks?

4. Have you changed your opinion on something since the beginning of class? If so, explain one or more topics where your thinking was challenged.

5. Have you solidified an opinion since the beginning of class? If so, explain one or more topics where you thinking was affirmed.