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 […]
A study of eighth grade students' academic achievement and attitudes toward science were evaluated before and after they experienced two different curricula. They differed in who experiences coherence; mySci 5E […]
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 of interested parties. As educators, we need to honor students’ diverse experiences and value systems while also engaging students in the process of respectful scientific […]
"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 natural world, but broadens their perspectives on how humans fit into natural systems, what constitutes science, and what they can accomplish using science. In high […]
In this workshop, we will work through the "anchoring phenomenon" from the OpenSciEd Middle School space unit, which helps students see the relevance of astronomy by drawing on traditional indigenous […]
