TEACHING WITH FOSS
How FOSS Works
From the Authors at LHS and Delta Education (2015)
Found at: http://www.delta-education.com/science/fossng/howfossworks.shtml
Brief Summary: Program website with active navigation links for organizing investigations, guiding implementation of science notebooks, reading, language development, use of technology, outdoor activities and assessment. The active investigation example focuses on the question: “What materials stick to magnets?” and walks the reader through the various icons and program elements for effective use of the curriculum and materials.
Research about FOSS database
A website with multiple papers and documentation showing previous and ongoing research being conducted with FOSS.
Found at: http://lhsfoss.org/scope/research/search_results.php?search_type=all
Brief Summary: The reader can select from multiple abstracts of papers, which are categorized with tags, depending on the nature of each of the research projects. For example, information about assessment, formative processes, and classroom practice can be found in the seminal work of William Black’s Inside the black box: Raising standards through classroom assessment (1998). Integration of science and literacy within the FOSS curricula are clearly identified in the work of Bulton, Fontino, Gerretson and Johnson (Forum on Public Policy Online, summer 2007). This article shows how teachers learned to integrate different subjects in their teaching, how they improved their content knowledge, and how students exposed to this integration had higher test scores than those who did not participate in the study. Most of the listed resources provide PDF downloadable file links to access each of the papers and references to the research.