Celebration

Collaboration & Connections

Challenges

Celebration

Collaboration & Connections

Three stories from Fermilab

Education Partnerships

What do teachers need?

How can scientists help?

Teachers and Scientists Working Together

What High School Teachers Needed

What Midlevel Teachers Wanted

What Schools WantedHelp evaluating and rewriting curriculum

“We have struggled to find a resource to help lead us through this difficult process and have felt frustrated in our attempts to find quality materials.”

“Thank you so much for providing schools with such an amazing opportunity to preview materials and become better educated on quality science instruction.”

Challenges

Doing science in the classroom*

Teaching science to all students*

Disaggregating test data

*What Scientists Value

Three Things to Remember about Science

Science is a way of thinking.

People do science.

Mathematics is the language of science.

Science is a way of thinking.Ingredients

Skepticism

Appeal to observation,

experiment & testing

Openness

Falsification

Rationality

Consensus

People do science.

Building detectors - novice and expert

Math is the language of science.

Working Collaboratively

Keeping Records

Sharing Information & Knowledge

Doing Science in the ClassroomIt’s not about the content!

Making Observations

Making Measurements

Doing Experiments

Math, a Foreign Language in Science Class?

Equations? Data collection? not to mention analysis!

Higgs Mass

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Frequency

Measurement Error!

Keeping Records

Leo’s Logbook

Logbooks are bound.

Pages are numbered.

Paper is high quality.

Everything is recorded.

pdf file: www-ed.fnal.gov/pdf/leo.pdf

“Everyone needs to use scientific information to make choices that arise every day.

“Everyone needs to be able to engage in public discourseand debate about important issues that involve scienceand technology.

“And everyone deserves to share in the excitement andpersonal fulfillment that can come from understandingand learning about the natural world.”

National Science Education Standards

Teaching Science to All Students

Stem Cells: No Research = No Cure

Value of Science in Space?

Global Warming, Get real!

Sweeping Shift in Forest Policy

Who Drained the Everglades?

Shifting Landscapes

• Cleaning the Air

• Standards for Water

• The Use of the Public Land

• Finding Energy Sources

“I know scientists are just normal people with a not so normal job. . . . Scientists lead a normal life outside of being a scientist. They are interested in dancing, pottery, jogging and even racquetball. Being a scientist is just another job which can be much more exciting.”

“I think of a scientist as very dedicated to his work. He is kind of crazy, talking always quickly. He constantly is getting new ideas. He is always asking questions and can be annoying. He listens to others' ideas and questions them.”

Seventh gradersdescribe scientistsbefore & aftermeeting some.

Stories

Feynman and the O Ring

Roy Andrews, the Dragon Hunter

Bob Wilson before Congress

Tom’s friend Bill, the astronomer

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— the core of science

Experiment — learning to read nature

Disaggregating Test Data

The No Child Left Behind Act - NCLB

Disaggregated by:

Gender

Major racial and ethnic groups

English proficiency

Migrant status

Disability

Status as economically disadvantaged

Disaggregating Test Data

The No Child Left Behind Act - NCLB

Adequate Yearly Progress

All students must reach proficiency within 12 years.

States must set intermediate goals for yearly progress.

Schools that fail to make adequate yearly progress for two years in a row must be identified as in need of improvement.

Disaggregating Test Data

The No Child Left Behind Act - NCLB

Science Timetable

Develop & implement standards by 2005-06

Develop & implement assessments by 2007-08

Collaboration & Connections

What do YOU need?

How can WE help?

Teachers and Scientists Working Together

www-ed.fnal.gov/talks/dupage.ppt