A STEM Model Lesson

Presenter

Ben Smith - Ben is mostly a physics teacher at Red Lion Area HS in York, PA. He also runs the TV Studio, teaches engineering, runs a STEM team and is the science chair.

Description

This model lesson will demonstrate how students can collect and share data and produce a digital report. Come experience what it’s like to learn in a digital stem class.

Audience and Devices

STEM folks of all grades or anyone who wants to see how to run an all digital class.

Agenda

• Attendee participation: What activities do your students do?
• Review of pedagogy for a science classroom and activities
• Use of tools to archive learning artifacts
• Model of activities in a science class
• Reading using formative assessment techniques
• Lecture with the use of back channel tools
• Formative assessment of problem solving skills
• Inclusion of media from labs that include annotation
• Science lab reports remixed by using digital tools to explain
• Summarizing activities

Presentation:

Resources

Hake, R. R. (1998). Interactive-Engagement vs. Traditional Methods: A Six Thousand Student Survey of Mechanics Test Data for Introductory Physics Courses. American Journal of Physics, 66 (3), 64-74.

Linn, M.C. (2003). Technology and science education: starting points, research programs, and trends, International Journal of Science Education, 25(6), 727-758.

Roth, W.M. (2001). Learning science through technological design, Journal of Research In Science Teaching, 38(7), 768-790.

Wheatley, G.H. (1991). Constructivist perspectives on science and mathematics learning. Science Education, 75 (1), 9-21.