Middle School Schedule

Day 10 - Tue. 6-30

8:30 AM Question Parking Lot

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• Final Presentations

  • 2 larger breakout rooms (10-20 min. per group)

• Share scope and sequence (5 min.)

• Assessment (5 min.)

• Feedback/Questions/Transitions (5 min.)

• Place feedback on Group Jamboard for review

10:30 AM

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• Breakout Rooms - Lesson planning groups

  • Review feedback on lesson

  • Final Lesson revisions

  • Post links to lessons (organize documents)

    1. Finish the 5E template

    2. Check documents for access (add to a shared folder)

• Contribute to Resource List

• Complete the final survey

• Online game and lunch!

Day 9 - Mon. 6-29

8:30 AM Question Parking Lot

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• Modelling - 8:35-9:35

• Break - 9:35-9:45

9:45 AM

• Environmental justice - 9:45-10:45

  • Culturally relevant questions from Youth Outside

• Break - 10:45-11:00

11:00 AM

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• Group Work time

• Plan for Presentations on Tuesday

  • 15 minutes for each group - in the big room

    1. Give a very brief overview of your lesson (~5 minutes)

    2. Describe your assessment and rubric (~5 minutes)

    3. Time for questions (~5 minutes)

  • Audience adds jamboard notes for feedback

• Teacher Gots and Needs

AFTERNOON ASYNCHRONOUS WORK

• Optional Resources around modelling and the LA River (things we did not have time for)

  • LA River Lesson

  • Jeannie's videos about CODAP & SAGE

• Work on culminating activity and rubric

  • Plan for Presentations on Tuesday

    • 15 minutes for each group - in the big room

      • Give a very brief overview of your lesson (~5 minutes)

      • Describe your assessment and rubric (~5 minutes)

      • Time for questions (~5 minutes)

    • Audience adds jamboard notes for feedback

Day 8 - Fri. 6-26

8:30 AM Question Parking Lot

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• Microteaching - 3 groups together with a facilitator - 8:30-10:00AM

• MS 3 Groups - Brian(group 3,4,5), Li (group 7,8,10), Sara (group 1,11,12)

• Each group gets 30 minutes

  • Share scope and sequence

  • Engage/Explore activity

  • Feedback from other groups - Last 10 minutes

    • Feedback guide - Warm and Cool feedback

10:30 AM

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• Talking about the culminating activity

• Looking at different types of culminating/capstone projects

• Go to wakelet.com

  • Use code 1ba1f4e or

  • https://wke.lt/w/s/7xhgTK

• Debrief from morning

  • Feedback/Reflection Slidedeck - Middle School

  • Look over feedback notes from morning

  • Plan for final presentation - Rubric

  • Planning time

• Teacher Gots and Needs

AFTERNOON ASYNCHRONOUS WORK

• Work on culminating activity and rubric

• Presentation will look like

  • Each group gets 10 minutes

    • Share scope and sequence

    • Assessment

    • Feedback

Day 7 - Thur. 6-25

8:30 AM Question Parking Lot

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• Advanced Observation - OBSERVING THE WORLD - 8:30-9:30 AM

• Observations Page

• Designing Assessments - 9:30-10:00

  • Stancoe Assessment Activity - Explore a Rigorous CER

    • Flowchart

    • Assessment analysis tool

    • Examples of assessment

      1. SNAP - Deer Population-PE link

10:30 AM

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• Advanced Observation - OBSERVING CALIFORNIA - 10:30-11:30 AM

• Observations Page

• Group meetings - lesson planning groups - 11:30-12:00

  • Planning assessments

  • How to share tomorrow - work out a plan

• Teacher Gots and Needs

AFTERNOON ASYNCHRONOUS WORK

• Assessment Homework

  • Finish assessment analysis (fill out the table about the example too)

• Plan for Microteaching (reminder just Engage/Explore)

  • Post link to any microteaching documents you would like to share on the quickwrite

Day 6 - Wed. 6-24

8:30 AM Question Parking Lot

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• Virtual field trips/Group Lesson Product Information - 8:30-9:15

  • Virtual Field Trip Link

  • Lesson Expectations and microteaching schedule

    • Examples of Lessons

    • Discussion of rubric for effective lessons ("required elements")

      • Microteaching on Fri 6-26 & Tuesday 6-30

• Virtual labs - 9:15 -10:00

• Link to Virtual Labs

10:30 AM

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• Lesson Planning 10:30-11:15 in your groups

• Presenters will visit and give feedback/help in breakout room groups

• Guest Speaker - Brendan from InnerOrbit (11:15-11:45, 30 mins) Slides

  • Zoom Link (meet in the HS zoom room)

• Look at the Rubric for lesson -11:45-12

• Teacher Gots and Needs

AFTERNOON ASYNCHRONOUS WORK

• Asking questions assignment

  • Watch 2 edpuzzles:

    • EdPuzzle 1) https://edpuzzle.com/media/5ef315274ded1d3f18b3cf05

    • EdPuzzle 2) https://edpuzzle.com/media/5ef310fc2c5b1b3f04f5ac94

  • Put notes on the MS jamboard

• Groups work to get ready for microteaching

Day 5 - Tues. 6-23

8:30 AM Question Parking Lot

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• Main session

  • There will be four 50 minute activities/labs that repeat three times

  • Each teacher attends 3 out of 4

  • Use quickwrite to sign up for labs

• Session 1 8:35-9:25 - Choose - Lab 1 - Lab 2 - Lab 3 - Lab 4

  • Break 9:25-9:40

• Session 2 9:40-10:30 - Choose - Lab 1 - Lab 2 - Lab 3 - Lab 4

  • Break 10:30-10:45

• Session 3 10:45-11:35 - Choose - Lab 1 - Lab 2 - Lab 3 - Lab 4

LAB OPTIONS

Lab 1 - Engineering

• Oil Spill Cleanup Activity (Engineering)

• Zoom

Lab 2 - Physical Science

• Lava and corn syrup - Link for page with access to presentation and data.

• Zoom

Lab 3 - Chemistry

• Kitchen Chemistry (3 lab overview)

• Zoom

Lab 4 - Biology

• Heart Rate & Physiology (cell phone sensors; the environment & physiology)

• Zoom

11:35 AM

• Main Session - Group discussion: 11:35-12:00

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• Group meetings - identify topics and brainstorm

• What is your environmental problem?

• Look at the evidence statements for the PEs you identified for your 5E

• Teacher Gots and Needs

AFTERNOON ASYNCHRONOUS WORK

• Work on your team’s planning document for the 5E lesson sequence.

  • Consider whether you might be able to incorporate an at home lab as part of your 5E.

Day 4 - Mon. 6-22

8:30 AM Question Parking Lot

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• What's a phenomenon? [PearDeck for class] [Slides for later]?

• Lesson planning

  1. 5E structure - Google doc

  2. Backwards planning

  3. Template for 5E Lesson Planning

  4. Checklist for Creating a Lesson Sequence this week (rubric)

10:30 AM

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• LA River

• Info on the river

• Discussion of different investigations

• Group planning

  • Talking about weekend observations - natural and human systems

  • Narrowing lesson ideas

    1. Identifying phenomena

• Teacher Gots and Needs

AFTERNOON ASYNCHRONOUS WORK

• Meet with your lesson group

  • Create a planning document and share it on the quickwrite

  • Identify an anchoring phenomenon that will bookend your activities. What understanding will students need to have to explain this phenomenon? (put this in your planning doc)

Day 3 - Fri. 6-19

8:30 AM Question Parking Lot

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• Link your artifact to the quickwrite

• Observation Activity Building (MS - Sara HS - Jeannie)

• Breakout Rooms by Subject Area & Technology Platform (groups of 2-3)

• Create a Collaborative Activity around Observation

  • Build material/content and plan for your activity

  • Utilize tech tools to support blended/distance learning

• Share out lessons

10:30 AM

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• Environmental Phenomena

• Brainstorm ideas - Specific Environmental Phenomena Slide show

  • Environmental Phenomena Options

• Forming groups (select by changing name to number)

• Plan for Afternoon/weekend observations

  • Groups can choose

    • Night sky observations

    • iNaturalist

    • Beach/tide pools

    • Online Cameras (Beach Cams, Zoo Cams, space cams)

      1. San diego zoo

      2. Animal cams (sight is slow)

      3. Beach cams

      4. earthcams

  • Planning observations

    • Asking questions

    • Collecting data

    • Pooling data

• Teacher Gots and Needs

AFTERNOON ASYNCHRONOUS WORK

• Do the observations you planned for in groups

• EP&C Lesson homework

  • use the activities described on “Introducing Systems and Campus and Community Mapping” (Instructions) to:

    • 1. create a “community map” of natural and human social systems near you

      • Jerry’s Example

    • 2. develop a Venn Diagram identifying the interactions between those natural and human social systems

      • Venn Diagram google slides

• Material list for at home labs next week. Most likely on Tuesday, if you want to get them ready during the weekend, that would be great!

  • Best to have these:

    • 4 clear or glass containers (same size) you can use to hold at least ½ cup of water

    • 1 measuring cup

    • 1 bottled water or 2 cups of tap water

    • 1 teaspoon, 1 spoon, 1 plastic cup, several napkins

    • 4 teaspoons of cooking oil (any kind)

    • Oil absorbing cloth pads or facial tissues (cut a big sheet into smaller squares) or cotton balls/pads or paper towels

    • 1 dish washing detergent such as Dawn®

    • 1 marker

    • Optional:

      • 1 blue food coloring

      • 2 bird/duck feathers, available from Amazon and craft stores such as Michaels

      • 1 small graduated cylinder, ~10 ml or 20 ml

      • 1 small funnel

  • Image of materials

Day 2 - Thur. 6-18

8:30 AM Question Parking Lot

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• Follow up on Standards reading - Chapter 11

  • Breakout room group work

  • Discuss Chapter 11 of the Science Framework.

• Get to know your standards and Framework

  • Review big ideas

  • SEER Resources

    • Systems thinking

    • Homework for the weekend: use the activities described on “Introducing Systems and Campus and Community Mapping” to:

      • 1. create a “community map” of natural and human social systems near you

      • 2. develop a Venn Diagram identifying the interactions between those natural and human social systems

  • Additional Links from today's chat

    • Chapter 1 of Framework

    • Discussion of Systems

    • EP&C Poster

10:30 AM

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• Leaf Follow up Activity

  • Graphic Organizer Link

  • Presentation Link - Glow Video in presentation

• Teacher Debrief and Gots and Needs

AFTERNOON ASYNCHRONOUS WORK

• Watching tutorial videos

  • Interactive Quickwrites using Google Sheets

  • PearDeck tutorial - General

    • Part 1 (how to make a Pear Deck and start presenting)

    • Part 2 (presenter views)] [step-by-step instructions]

  • Jamboard Video

  • Ed Puzzle Video

  • Zoom breakout room tutorial

• Create a learning artifact (see above) and post a link on the quickwrite

  • Office hours

    • At 3PM - Zoom Link

    • At 9PM - Zoom Link (closed for the night -- see you tomorrow)

    • At 7AM - Zoom Link

Day 1 - Wed. 6-17

8:30 AM Question Parking Lot

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• Introductions and Icebreakers - Google Slides

• Discussion of Covid-19 Teaching

  • Quickwrite

• Phenomena exploration

• Take a look at the pictures and rename yourself with the number that you would like to discuss in a breakout room

10:30 AM

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• Engaging Discussion - Pear deck

• [Postpone to a later day] Structuring your classroom for the fall

  • Breakout sessions on: Google Classroom, Schoology, Hyperdocs or New google sites

• Exit Ticket - Gots and Needs

AFTERNOON ASYNCHRONOUS WORK

• Survey

• Leaf Collection

  • email a photo to photos@zadok.org

• NGSS Introduction Reading

  • Intro to CA NGSS Framework (skim if you haven't see this before)

  • Framework Chpt 11 (reading pages 1443-1457)

• Video - Integrated Science