Responsive Teaching in Science

The course consists of a science strand and a practice strand. In this course participants tackle a sustained inquiry of how Earth's temperature is maintained by the flow of energy from the sun. This is a story about energy and equilibrium: a semester-long investigation of the global energy balance of Earth. Participants work with scientific models, maps, satellite images, and quantitative data. In hands-on investigations, they use physical models, light probes, temperature probes and spectroscopes to investigate light and its interaction with matter. Building on work with assessment from the previous course, participants come to understand formative assessment as an integral part of the teaching-learning process that takes place at each stage of scientific inquiry. They also learn to enlist their students and school colleagues as partners in formative assessment in order to move student learning forward. Course is a blended face to face and online course. Recommendations: Consent. Summer 12 week summer session.