Grounding STEM Education Programs in NGSS Practices
Abstract for the conference program
Interested in exploring ways to support classroom teaching and integrating the NGSS practices? Want to move towards an inquiry-based approach in which students take more responsibility for their learning? Join us for "Grounding STEM Education Programs in NGSS Practices". Participants will learn how to shift their existing STEM curriculum to align with NGSS. Participants will also discuss and learn the fundamentals of inquiry-based instruction, how to ask investigable questions, planning, and sharing results. Discover and share a multitude of hands-on approaches, curriculum, and to activities to discover how the NGSS design process can be brought into the STEM classroom. Learn! to provide more responsibility to your learners: Utilize student engagement, curiosity, excitement, inventiveness and joy of learning. Curriculum topics include indoor and outdoor activities, field work experiences, data collection and analysis. Takeaways include inquiry-based instruction, investigable questions, planning and sharing results. Learn how to “shift” or change existing science activities into authentic inquiry-based activities that integrate NGSS science practices.
Grounding STEM Education Programs in NGSS Practices
Interested in exploring ways to support classroom teaching and integrating the NGSS practices? Want to move towards an inquiry-based approach in which students take more responsibility for their learning? Join us for "Grounding STEM Education Programs in NGSS Practices". Participants will learn how to shift their existing STEM curriculum to align with NGSS. Participants will also discuss and learn the fundamentals of inquiry-based instruction, how to ask investigable questions, planning, and sharing results. Discover and share a multitude of hands-on approaches, curriculum, and to activities to discover how the NGSS design process can be brought into the STEM classroom. Learn! to provide more responsibility to your learners: Utilize student engagement, curiosity, excitement, inventiveness and joy of learning. Curriculum topics include indoor and outdoor activities, field work experiences, data collection and analysis. Takeaways include inquiry-based instruction, investigable questions, planning and sharing results. Learn how to “shift” or change existing science activities into authentic inquiry-based activities that integrate NGSS science practices.
