Session 5 1:30 PM - Colorado Association of Science Teachers

Session 4 12:20 PM - 1:15 PMModeling PhysicsEarl LegleiterModeling Instruction is a curriculum design that engages learners in a student-centered environment where science contentunderstanding is developed from student-designed experiments. The U.S. Department of Education designated Modeling Instructionas one of two exemplary science education programs in 2001.Focus: PhysicsAudience: MS / HSRoom: J42-46Email: elegleiter@hotmail.comWastewater and Aquatic BiologyKelley MerrittSteve FrankThe presentation gives an overview of a teacher in-service we conducted this summer. We plan to repeat the course next summer.The course provided an opportunity for teachers to study an aquatic habitat improvement project the Metro WastewaterReclamation District is now conducting in the South Platte River. The aim of this aquatic habitat improvement project is forMetro to create aquatic habitat for native fish species in the river as it now exists.Focus: Life Science/BiologyAudience: MS / HSRoom: H42-46Email: kmerritt@mwrd.dst.co.usTeaching About Climate Change and Colorado’s FutureDeborah MorrisonHow can interdisciplinary inquiry science lessons bring the issue of climate change home to Colorado? This is the question thatmiddle and high school teachers tackled in the ―Learn More About Climate‖ curriculum workshop. Come and learn about themultimedia lessons created in this workshop, all of which were tested and refined in real Colorado science classrooms. Exampleonline lessons focus on pine bark beetles and evidence for climate change in Colorado.Getting them outside and preparing students for outside is a fulfilling, yet challenging proposition. I will cover three areas:-- preparation (safety, drawings and key vocabulary, maps)--3 outside labs/lessons1. the dig (archeology and soil science and landforms)2.stream table and river feature model3. Colorado state map and Poudre river system--Assessment alternatives and Active questioningFocus: Environmental ScienceAudience: MS / HSRoom: F38-44Email: deborah.morrison@colorado.edu44