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2003


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Date: October 11-12, 2003
Duration: 15.75 contact hours
Location: Poulsbo Marine Science Center, Poulsbo, WA
Parcticipants: Cindi Barton, Shannon Graham, Robert Hawley (TEA Researcher), Hawley Mathieson, Misty Nikula-Ohlsen, George Palo, Suzanne Piper, Rebecca Timson, Rolf Tremblay, Ed Waddington (TEA Researcher), and Terry Welch

Goal(s) of Meeting

  • Address ways to transfer the field research experience to classrooms
  • Motivate parcticipants to develop and/or incorporate existing inquiry-based innovative classroom activities
  • Share TEA activities and facilitate networking for education outreach
  • Provide a venue to sustain mentoring collaborations and promote future Polar Learning Community interactions

    Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):

    Overview and Discussion Points:

  • TEA researcher presentations with connections to classrooms
  • TEA presentations, transfer to the classroom and TEA activities
  • Professional sharing of resources, materials, sources of funding, teaching strategies, and professional opportunities
  • Discussions of inquiry-based teaching activities and effective teaching techniques
  • Mentoring and partnering discussions
  • Development of post-workshop sustaining activities
  • Discussion on forming a TEA NW Regional Networking Group for on-going sharing, networking, and NSTA Regional Seattle 2004 Convention group presentation/s


    Next Step:
  • Facilitation of the TEA NW Regional Networking Group for on-going communications and partnering to address the sustaining activities we developed during the workshop.

    How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?

    Materials and Resources Used:

  • LEARNING SCIENCE AND THE SCIENCE OF LEARNING, Edited by Rodger W. Bybee
  • SCIENCE NOTEBOOKS: WRITING ABOUT INQUIRY, Brian Campbell and Lori Fulton
  • INQUIRE WITHIN, Douglas Llewellyn
  • ASSESSING STUDENT UNDERSTANDING IN SCIENCE, Sandra K. Enger and Robert E. Yager
  • CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT AND THE NATIONAL SCIENCE EDUCATION STANDARDS, National Research Council
  • INQUIRY AND THE NATIONAL SCIENCE EDUCATION STANDARDS, National Research Council
  • NATIONAL SCIENCE EDUCATION STANDARDS, National Research Council
  • JASON XIII: Frozen Worlds
  • GLACIER Curriculum
  • TEA Antarctic trunk
  • TEA Arctic trunk
  • TEA activities template
  • TEA website

    Additional reflections:





    Date: On-going
    Duration: 42 hours email communications and group facilitations time. This also includes the writing and submission of our group’s proposals for the NSTA Regional Seattle 2004 Convention. In facilitating the regional workshop and the post-workshop networking group, I sent 1,112 emails to TEAs, TEA Associates and others (individuals personally and/or everyone listed on the TEA NW Regional Networking Group within group emailings).
    Location: On-line
    Parcticipants: The TEA NW Regional Networking Group: Cindi Barton, Shannon Graham, Robert Hawley (TEA Researcher), Hawley Mathieson, Misty Nikula-Ohlsen, George Palo, Suzanne Piper, Rebecca Timson, Rolf Tremblay, Ed Waddington (TEA Researcher), and Terry Welch

    Goal(s) of Meeting

  • To address the sustaining activities we developed during the workshop.
  • To continue to share, network, and present a group workshop at the NSTA Regional Seattle 2004 Convention.

    Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):

    Resources and a variety of points of information and professional activities and opportunities have been shared. Proposals have been submitted to NSTA for the 2004 Seattle Regional Convention.

    How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?

    Web sites have been shared that promote inquiry-based science and effective teaching strategies with available materials.



    NOTE: Report updated through 2003 and submitted January 6, 2004

    Additional reflections: