The calendar below shows the professional learning events hosted by OpenSciEd and our Certified Professional Learning partners.
Discussion is how a classroom community makes sense of what it is investigating. But for that to happen, students need to actually be talking. Learn strategies for planning discussions, ensuring […]
OpenSciEd HS Physics units use a storyline approach to help students figure out answers to their questions in a three-dimensional, coherent, and equitable way. In this session, participants will experience […]
Explore the comprehensive assessment system that accompanies the OpenSciEd high school program. This comprehensive system includes opportunities for formative, summative, self, and peer assessment. The session will guide participants through […]
OpenSciEd HS engages students with complex, flexible, and purposeful mathematical thinking to meet the NGSS. We illustrate how NGSS practices 4 and 5 (analyzing data and math) are central and […]
Expand the socio-ecological thinking you bring to science phenomena using frameworks from Learning in Places. Experience examples of how these frameworks are part of the OpenSciEd biology course. TAKEAWAYS: Recognize […]
When using OpenSciEd, it is a challenge to help students not only figure out science ideas, but how to work together and support each other. This panel of classroom teachers […]
The Framework requires that students engage in three-dimensional sensemaking around phenomena. In OpenSciEd units, this begins with the anchor lesson, in which students engage with a phenomenon in supported ways […]
Grading that supports student sensemaking doesn't have to keep you at school all night. Learn approaches to grading that prioritize 3-D sensemaking and utilize technology, collaboration, and existing resources so […]
The Framework calls for students to engage in argumentation from evidence in a way that considers relevant social, ethical, and environmental tradeoffs that cannot be resolved without considering the values […]
"Designing for justice means centering inquiry on phenomena that cross the artificial boundary between human and natural systems. The result is instruction that not only teaches students to understand the […]
The NGSS changed how we prepare and support preservice and novice teachers. Now, publicly available materials can make this real. This session will explore how High-Quality Instructional Materials can be leveraged to support teacher sensemaking around the three dimensions of the NGSS. TAKEAWAYS: Ideas for ways use HQIM to help teachers understand and implement the […]
OpenSciEd Chemistry's 2nd unit explores why lightning strikes and how we can protect ourselves. Learn how students build understanding of atomic structure through modeling, investigations, and patterns of thinking. TAKEAWAYS: This unit supports students as they figure out understandings of atomic structure, charge, and the role of matter, forces, and energy in lightning. Participants will […]
