Session 5 Focus Question: How can we engage students in constructing explanations and arguments?

Prework

TEACHERS 

• Conduct your independent research investigations.
   
• Post regularly to your team page's update feed with updates and observations you make along the way.
   
  • Upload photos if possible (Use 'Files' on the left side menu.  The photos will appear in the feed.)
     
  • You can also upload files depicting charts and graphs to this area as well.
     
• Remember to read and respond to your mentors' posts and to continue to update the Info fields at the top of your Project page.
• Create your poster for your independent investigation on your Team's Frame on the Session 4 Jamboard (see instructions on Frame 5)
• Posters for your investigations should include:
  Research question
  Procedure
  Results
  Explanation, including C-E-R
  • Consider our discussion of explanations, argumentation, and C-E-R:
    • Dis you include your question and claim that answered the question
    • Did you use evidence from your investigation to support your claim
    • Did you include relevant science ideas to support your claim?

You’ll present your posters
Have time for questions from your peers
Argumentation!

SCIENTISTS
 

• Add to the Goals and Roles Jamboard (Goals 3 and 4)
   
• Complete the Master Plant Science Team decision-making exercise.
   
• Continue to check the Project page and respond to teachers' posts.

INDIVIDUAL TASKS

• Complete the Meta Moment (5 min): Reflect in your journal.

  • What did you learn?

  • How did you learn it?

  • What do you want to be sure to remember as you implement the module?

  • Revisit your initial response to the focus question: How do we engage students to make explicit links between science ideas and activities?

Session Agenda and Resources 

• Opening

• What is a Scientist Like?

• Revisiting Student Preconceptions about photosynthesis and cellular respiration

• Presentations of independent research projects 

• Practicing the skill of argumentation

  • Synthesis Jamboard

• How PlantingScience Roles work together to support student learning

  • Goals and Roles Jamboard: Wrap Up

• Using the PlantingScience website.
  Teachers and Scientists - using your regular (not student) logins, to https://plantingscience.org/groups/f2plonlined 

• Fall 2023 Session Implementation information

  • Teacher/Liaison Assignments

  • Timeline and Logistics

• Research responsibilities 

• Closing and Next Steps

  • Daily Survey

  • Survey about PL workshop format

Next Steps:

Be on the lookout for more information to support your implementation of the Power of Sunlight Module in the late summer/early fall.