Anytime Anywhere Science PD

Anytime, anywhere science PD courses is currently available on the district's MobileMind PD Platform. Teachers can start a course through the MobileMind Platform using their district Google accounts using any device. Once the course is completed and proof-of-learning product submitted, teachers will submit evidence of completion to their school TLCs. Renewal credits based on each course will be awarded at the end of the school year.

The following Anytime, Anywhere Science PD Courses are currently active on MobileMind:

• 5E Lesson Planning for Elementary Science.

  • In this course, you will see an example of how to plan an elementary science lesson that includes all of the "E's" in the 5E Lesson Plan Model- Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate. Through this example and the accompanying resources, you will see how to unpack and use your standards to craft a student-friendly clear learning goal as well as how to draw upon and adapt instructional resources from the Richland Two K-5 Science Curriculum Guide to make them fit the 5E framework.

• Unpacking the SC College- and Career-Ready Science Standards 2021

  • Coming Soon

• Science Practice 1: Ask Questions.

  • In this course, you will explore how scientists and engineers ask questions as the starting point for everything they do. This will allow you to incorporate this practice into everything you do when you teach science so that your young scientists and engineers will become confident and skilled in the kinds of scientific questions they ask.

• Science Practice 2: Develop and Use Models.

  • In this course, you will explore how scientists and engineers develop and use models to represent different science concepts, simulate phenomena, and test prototypes. This will allow you to incorporate this practice into everything you do when you teach science so that your young scientists and engineers will become confident and skilled in developing and using conceptual models to represent different scientific phenomena.

• Science Practice 3: Plan and Carry Out Investigations.

  • In this course, you will explore how scientists and engineers plan and carry out investigations to acquire the data they use to support claims and test designs. This will allow you to incorporate this practice into everything you do when you teach science so that your young scientists and engineers will become confident and skilled in planning and carrying out their investigations as ways of learning science concepts.

• Science Practice 4: Analyze and Interpret Data.

  • In this course, you will explore how scientists and engineers analyze and interpret data they have collected through measurements and observations and how they use their data to support claims and construct explanations. This will allow you to incorporate this practice into everything you do when you teach science so that your young scientists and engineers will become confident and skilled when collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting their data as part of their learning.

• Science Practice 5: Use Mathematics and Computational Thinking.

  • In this course, you will explore how scientists and engineers use mathematics and engage in computational thinking as they organize and analyze their data. This will allow you to incorporate this practice into everything you do when you teach science so that your young scientists and engineers will become confident and skilled in how they organize and analyze their numerical data.

• Science Practice 6: Construct Explanations.

  • In this course, you will explore how scientists and engineers construct explanations as a way to communicate how and why things happen in the world around us. This will allow you to incorporate this practice into everything you do when you teach science so that your young scientists and engineers will become confident and skilled in using data, observations, and models to construct their own explanations about different scientific phenomena.

• Science Practice 7: Engage in Argumentation.

  • In this course, you will explore how scientists and engineers engage in argumentation using evidence to support claims. This will allow you to incorporate this practice into everything you do when you teach science so that your young scientists and engineers will become confident and skilled in the way they use their data as evidence and support claims with reasoning through argumentation.

• Science Practice 8: Obtain and Communicate Information.

  • In this course, you will explore how scientists and engineers obtain, evaluate, and communicate information throughout the scientific process. This will allow you to incorporate this practice into everything you do when you teach science so that your young scientists and engineers will become confident and skilled in the the way they obtain and use information, evaluate information from different sources, and communicate what they have learned.

• Science Practice: Design Solutions and Solve Problems.

  • In this course, you will explore how the distinction between what scientists do in asking questions and investigating phenomena and what engineers do when they define problems and design solutions. This will allow you to incorporate the engineering design process into your lesson when you teach science so that your young engineers will become confident and skilled in applying the scientific concepts they learn in defining problems and designing and testing solutions to solve them.

• Crosscutting Concept 1: Patterns

  • Coming Soon

• Crosscutting Concept 2: Cause and Effect: Mechanisms and Explanations

  • Coming Soon

• Crosscutting Concept 3: Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

  • Coming Soon

• Crosscutting Concept 4: Systems and System Models

  • Coming Soon

• Crosscutting Concept 5: Energy and Matter: Flows, Cycles, and Conservation

  • Coming Soon

• Crosscutting Concept 6: Structure and Functions

  • Coming Soon

• Crosscutting Concept 7: Stability and Change

  • Coming Soon

For questions about accessing and using MobileMind, as well as receiving renewal credit, please contact Chuck Holland, Director of Instructional Technology, Richland School District Two