Past Events from October 19, 2023 – October 27, 2023 – Page 2 – OpenSciEd

The calendar below shows the professional learning events hosted by OpenSciEd and our Certified Professional Learning partners.

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PARTNER EVENT: Curriculum Launch for Teachers and Facilitators – Pennsylvania Regional Event

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Join us for an immersive 4-day professional learning experience for middle school science educators and facilitators. You will leave with everything you need to start implementing the OpenSciEd Curriculum in your classroom and how to facilitate professional learning for other educators! Teacher Cost $300 Facilitator Cost $450 October 19, 20, 26, and 27, 2023 8:00-3:00 […]

$300 – $450

#NSTA23 – PLI-1: OpenSciEd Middle School: Revealing Students’ Brilliance

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This PLI will simultaneously prepare you to teach the first unit in the OpenSciEd middle school program and provide the support you need to advance your practice so that learning is both driven by student questions and leads to the foundational science learning they need to be successful. TAKEAWAYS: How OpenSciEd's free and publicly available […]

#NSTA23 – PLI-2: Introducing OpenSciEd High School: Helping Students See Science and Engineering in Meaningful Phenomena and Problems

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Join us to learn how OpenSciEd materials can help you build science learning experiences anchored in compelling phenomena and meaningful community and global problems. This PLI will introduce you to the first unit in the OpenSciEd High School physics course. You will experience firsthand how the unit is driven by student questions, you will put […]

#NSTA23 – I can’t wait for science class! – The How and Why of 3D Phenomenon-Based Learning

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The Framework and NGSS called for phenomena-based 3D learning experiences for all students. Unpack WHY this is so important and HOW to make it a reality in your classroom. Take away phenomena and storylines to try in your classroom and strategies for making every student look forward to your class! TAKEAWAYS: The shift to phenomena-based […]

#NSTA23 – What is OpenSciEd HS? What Are the Premises of Our Instructional Model?

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Join us to see how OpenSciEd’s materials can help build science learning experiences anchored in compelling phenomena and in important community and global problems. OpenSciEd high school uses a storyline approach that emphasizes coherence from the student perspective. Participants will explore the curricular routines, discourse strategies, and comprehensive assessment systems that support equitable participation. TAKEAWAYS: […]

#NSTA23 – Selection Pressures and Urban Spaces: A Storyline Approach in OpenSciEd Biology

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This unit helps students develop an understanding of the elements of evolution by natural selection and learn to apply that understanding to protect populations endangered by urbanization. Students learn through modeling, reading, and discussing adaptations of published scientific studies of nonhuman populations impacted by urbanization. They develop criteria for designing urban systems that protect populations […]

#NSTA23 – A Phenomenal Partnership: Considerations for Supporting Customized Curriculum-Based Standards Implementation

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This session will outline work that Saint Paul Public Schools, BSCS Science Learning, and OpenSciEd have done to adapt OpenSciEd materials to support standards implementation and district equity goals. The session will explain key considerations and modifications needed to align materials with domain-specific standards, while maintaining curricular coherence from the students’ perspective. The team will […]

#NSTA23 – Why Are Oysters Dying and How Can We Use Chemistry to Protect Them? Using Chemistry to Solve ESS Problem

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OpenSciEd HS’s reversible reactions unit on ocean chemistry has three unique foci: 1) engineering, 2) math with scale, proportion, and quantity, and 3) relevance to students. Students use stoichiometry and acid-base reactions to make sense and design solutions to prevent oyster die off. TAKEAWAYS: This unit supports students as they figure out understandings of reversible reactions […]

#NSTA23 – Turn Up the Discussion – Increasing the Quality and Quantity of Discussion in the Science Classroom

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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 equitable access, and teacher moves to guide the conversation. It's time to get your students talking! TAKEAWAYS: Discussion is the way that a classroom community […]

#NSTA23 – Microwaves: Introducing the OpenSciEd HS Electromagnetic Radiation Unit

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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 that approach firsthand as they engage with the fifth unit’s anchor in ""student hat"", a unit anchored in the use of the microwave and its […]

#NSTA23 – The OpenSciEd High School Assessment System

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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 the multiple assessment types and will explore in-depth electronic exit tickets and transfer tasks. Electronic exit tickets give teachers an opportunity to formatively assess students' […]

#NSTA23 – Meeting the Challenges of Math & Computation with OpenSciEd HS

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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 supported as students develop explanations, models, and solutions in chemistry and physics. TAKEAWAYS: Leveraging data analysis and mathematical thinking in the context of meaningful phenomena […]