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| Resource type | Theme | Title | Teaser | Grade Level | Name | Comments | Post date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instructional models | Scientific inquiry | Collaboration Self-Reflection Assessment Tool | How well do you collaboration with your teammates during fieldwork, data entry, and making conclusions about your investigation? Use this tool to reflect on and build your collaboration skills over time. This tool was created with the help of a team of teachers in August 2012. If you use this tool, please share back with the community the ways that you use and modify it. Use the comments section below and/or post your new version back to the curriculum bank. Thanks! |
Middle school (grades 6-8) High school (grades 9-12) |
vitalteach | 0 | 2013-04-11 |
| Instructional models | Scientific inquiry | Scientific Argument Assessment Tool | How expert is your scientific argument? Use this tool to find out if you are a recruit, novice, intermediate, or expert! Just examine your claim, field notes, and written and photo evidence to answer a few questions. You can also use the tool to as a guide to improving your arguments over time. This tool was created with the help of a team of teachers in August 2012. If you use this tool, please share back with the community the ways that you use and modify it. Use the comments section below and/or post your new version back to the curriculum bank. Thanks! |
Middle school (grades 6-8) High school (grades 9-12) Professional development |
vitalteach | 0 | 2013-03-21 |
| Instructional models | Scientific inquiry | Scientific Observation Assessment Tool | How expert are you at making scientific observations? This reflection/ assessment tool can help you figure that out! Just examine your field notes and written evidence and answer a few questions. This tool was created with the help of a team of teachers in August 2012. If you use this tool, please share back with the community the ways that you use and modify it. Use the comments section below and/or post your new version back to the curriculum bank. Thanks! |
Middle school (grades 6-8) High school (grades 9-12) Professional development |
vitalteach | 0 | 2013-03-21 |
| Units of study, Field work resources, Instructional models | Invasive species, Scientific inquiry | What I Should Have Done The First Time If I Would Have Listened | Suggestions and observations from someone who learns the hard way. What I should have done with my first VS investigation. |
Middle school (grades 6-8) High school (grades 9-12) Professional development |
pparent | 2 | 2012-04-07 |
| Tutorials, Instructional models | Scientific inquiry, Tutorial/ Template | Fall Webinar 2011 - Create, Share & Connect | Learn about - Creative ways for your students to share their findings with an authentic audience All the ways to participate in conversations and collaborate with the VS community! | Professional development | cvoyer | 0 | 2011-11-08 |
| Tutorials, Instructional models | Biodiversity, Scientific inquiry | Fall Webinar 2011 - Mission: Analysis | http://vitalsignsme.org/mission-analysis-webinar Learn about - Analysis Missions How students make meaning of their own species and habitat observations Making meaning using the larger Vital Signs database | Professional development | cvoyer | 0 | 2011-11-08 |
| Tutorials, Instructional models | Invasive species, Scientific inquiry, Tutorial/ Template | Fall Webinar 2011 - Vital Signs Refresher | http://vitalsignsme.org/vs-refresher What : Learn about - Field Missions Tools and resources Data quality Publishing observations | Professional development | cvoyer | 0 | 2011-11-08 |
| Learning activities, Instructional models | Scientific inquiry | Prediction Jigsaw | Students break into expert groups to help them make a prediction about what they expect to find in the field. |
Middle school (grades 6-8) High school (grades 9-12) |
christinev | 0 | 2011-08-26 |
| Learning activities, Instructional models | Scientific inquiry | Talk Moves Card Game | Use talk moves cards to scaffold productive talk and argument. | Middle school (grades 6-8) | christinev | 1 | 2011-08-26 |
| Instructional models | Scientific inquiry | Self-organize around your interests | Self-organization and choice are two powerful motivational tools that get students excited and personally invested in the learning or investigating they are about to do. Use this process whenever you want students to team up to learn or investigate something in which they are personally interested, invested, and excited. |
Middle school (grades 6-8) High school (grades 9-12) Professional development |
vitalteach | 0 | 2011-05-06 |
