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Summer Workshop Agenda

submitter: Midland Public Schools Systemic Change Teacher Enhancement Institute
published: 08/06/1998
posted to site: 08/06/1998
T3 SIMPLE MACHINES INSTITUTE
SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
Week One

TimeTuesday August 4Wednesday August 5Thursday August 6Friday August 7
8:30-11:30 Machines and Electricity groups:
Overview of physical science learning.

Snippet #1 - Your Brain and Memory

Introduction to structure of summer workshops.

BREAK

"Being a professional in a changing system"

Machines-small groups:
Spring scale investigations.
Balance/lever investigations.
Design or prediction problems using levers.

Machines and Electricity groups:
Overview of Pedagogy - Why study content to get better at teaching simple units.

Pedagogical frameworks and expectations (notebooks with units, etc.)

Machines small groups:
Finish lever investigations
Sharing levers from home and telling lever stories about them.

Machines-whole group:
Introduction to inclined planes, including vector addition of forces.

Demo: Moving someone up a ramp vs. lifting.

Machines-small groups:
Investigations of inclined planes.

Sharing Time:
Electricity visits simple machines (1 hour)
Machines visit electricity (1 hour)

Machines-small groups:
Introduce bicycle

Lunch - 11:30
12:15-3:30 Machines-whole group:
Physical science and physical stories.

Demo: Lifting a person with first and second class levers.

Machines small groups:Lever stories and Newton's law stories.

Homework for T3's: Bring an example of a tool that includes a lever.

Machines-whole group:
Introduction to pulleys.

Demo: Tug of war or lifting a person with pulleys.

Machines small groups:
Pulley investigations

Homework for T3's: Bring machine that includes inclined plane, wedge, or screw.

Machines-whole group:
Wedges and screws as inclined planes.

Machine-small groups:
Investigations of inclined planes (con't).

Sharing explanations of inclined planes, wedges, or screws from home.

Planning for sharing.

Machine-small groups:
Bicycle crank and rear wheel investigations.
4-5S3S3S3



T3 SIMPLE MACHINES INSTITUTE
SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
Week Two

timeMonday August 10Tuesday August 11Wednesday August 12Thursday August 13
8:30-12:00 Machines-whole group:
Energy and efficiency in mechanical systems.

Snippet #2 - Professional Development

Machines-small groups:
Discussion of reflections.

Adding energy and efficiency to earlier stories.

Continuing bicycle investigations.

Machines-whole group:
Expectations for independent investigations.

Machines-small groups:
Independent investigations

Writing reports or posters.

Sharing Time:
Electricity visits simple machines (1 hour)
Machines visit electricity (1 hour)

Individual synthesis and analysis task.

Machines-whole group:
Learning stories and planning learning cycles

Grade level groups:
Detailed activity planning.
Long term patterns-life and earth science calendars

Lunch - 12:00-12:45
12:45-3:30 Machines-whole group:
Complex mechanical systems, including non-machine components.

Machines groups of 20:
Complete bicycle investigations.

Plan independent investigations.

Machines-mall groups:
Sharing results of independent investigations within group.

Preparing for sharing with electricity group.

Machines and Electricity groups:
Snippet #3 - The Brain and Student Learning

Setting goals for grade level groups.

S3 fishbowl using preassessment data that they collected last spring.

Deciding on goals and preassessments.

Grade level groups:
Teaching strategies: template for exemplary teaching.

Grade level groups:
Detailed activity planning

Electricity and Machines groups:
NSF Evaluation
Wrap-up and Conclusion

4-5S3S3S3S3



T3 MAGNETISM AND ELECTRICITY INSTITUTE
SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
Week One

TimeTuesday August 4Wednesday August 5Thursday August 6Friday August 7
8:30-12:00 Introduction

Snippet #1 - Your Brain and Memory

Overview of Physical Science and Electricity

  1. Introduction to Magnetism

  2. Magnetism Lab - Poles and Fields

  3. Making Sense of Magnetism
Overview of Pedagogy

  1. Batteries and Circuits
    Lab 1: Simple circuits

  2. Naive concepts about circuits - 1

  3. Writing Task
  1. Studying the "Wall" Examining household circuits

  2. Energy Transformations

  3. Making sense of circuits: Writing/drawing activity

Sharing: Electricity visits simple machines (1 hour)
Machines visit electricity (1 hour)

  1. Introduction to the Oersted Effect Recreating Oersted's observations

  2. Electromagnets Lab
Lunch - 12:00LunchLunchLunchLunch
12:45-3:30
  1. Concept map on magnetism and electricity

  2. -8 DEFER UNTIL WINTER

  1. Introduction to current electricity, circuits and circuit diagrams

  2. Electrical Cells and Batteries

  3. Battery Lab

  1. Battery and Circuit Lab 2:
    Making series and parallel circuits and using circuit diagrams.

  2. Applying your knowledge to real problems

  1. Energy Transformations, Synthesis of Circuits, Cells, and Batteries

Preparation for Sharing
  1. Identifying variables in electromagnets. Making a stronger electromagnet.

  2. Post Lab Discussion
    What if we added more batteries? More turns? Changed the core?

  3. Solenoids

  4. Writing Task
4-5S3S3S3S3

Sessions where both Groups (Electricity and Magnetism) are working together.
Plenary Sessions in Little Theater.
Lab and work sections in labs



T3 MAGNETISM AND ELECTRICITY INSTITUTE
SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
Week Two

timeMonday August 10Tuesday August 11Wednesday August 12Thursday August 13
8:30-11:30 Snippet #2 - Professional Development

  1. Review of Week 1:
    Magnetism, current, electricity and circuits, Oersted effect and electromagnetism.

  2. Introduction to electrical generators and transformers

  3. Electrical generators and transformers lab.

  4. Making sense of generators and transformers
  1. Group A: Field Trip to Power Plant

  2. Group B: Radio Kit and Preparation for Sharing
Sharing

  1. Debriefing Field Trip

Synthesis

Grade Level Discussions
Teaching Strategies [Continued]

Detailed activity planning.
Long term patterns - life and earth science calendars.

Lunch 11:30Lunch: Solenoids in automobilesLunchLunchLunch
12:15-3:30
  1. Introduction to Electrical Motors

  2. Motors Lab

  3. Summarizing Induction Transformers and Generators

  4. Preparing for Field Trip
  1. Group A: Radio Kit and Preparation for Sharing

  1. Group B: Field Trip to Power Plant
Snippet #3 - The Brain and Student Learning

Plenary Session: Preparation for Next Year-setting goals for grade level groups

S3 Fishbowl on Planning using pre-assessment data they collected last year.

Grade Level Groups:
Teaching strategies and template for exemplary teaching.

Grade Level Discussions
Teaching Strategies [Continued]

Detailed activity planning.
Electricity and Machines groups: NSF Evaluation
Wrap and Conclusion.

4-5S3S3S3S3

Sessions where both Groups (Electricity and Magnetism) are working together.
Plenary Sessions in Little Theater.
Lab and work sections in labs