3D Task Design

Module Overview • Facilitation Guidance • PD & Classroom Tools • Background • Artifacts from the Field

Module Overview -- Design Tasks with Students' Lives in Mind

Students have hidden assets, waiting to be discovered and connected to school ...

Students have STEM-related life assets that are hidden from teachers.
People who students know and places that students go can connect to science learning tasks.

Broaden what constitutes "The Work of Teaching with 3-Dimensions" to include teachers routinely learning about student interests, aspirations, and STEM-related people & places in their lives right now.
Use Teacher "Reflective Surveys" and companion student surveys to focus on values, confidence, and use of the three dimensions.
Conceptboard or other virtual whiteboards can be helpful tools to facilitate learner interactions around 3-dimensional tasks.
Student Voice guidance
Practical Measures guidance

See the website for "3D TaskWorks"

Item clusters and other imperfect tasks

All of the climate science item clusters contain items that be analyzed and modified.
Item clusters written around other (non-climate) phenomena are interesting and useful for analyzing and adapting to classroom learning tasks.
"Seed Tasks" make good initial practice for analyzing alignment and generating ideas for modification.
"Modified Tasks" show several ways that the same task can be improved.

Artifacts

Conceptboard team workspaces show different ways that teacher teams completed a Do-Talk-Revise routine with the Rock Pocket Mouse task.