WHO ARE WE?WHAT IS SCIENCE?

FALL 2011

University of Northern Colorado

Create Your Own Facial Glyphs Use the key to determine the features

of your facial glyph Create your own facial glyph using

the materials provided…let your inner Picasso take over!

We will use the facial glyph as an introduction to the group.

Identify 3 adjectives to describe yourself.

Let’s make a quilt…

One by one introduce yourself to the group. Share your name; Identify yourself by the features; Share the 3 adjectives that represent you.

With each facial glyph we will create a group quilt that represents the members present.

What similarities and differences do you see on the quilt?

Collaboratively create a graph representing the data for one of the features.

Connections

Facial glyphs integrates multiple disciplines: Literacy Social studies Mathematics Science

And the activity addresses: Affect Psychomotor Diversity

Check out the connections….

Connected to Literacy

Standards for the English Language Arts“Language is the most powerful, most readily available tool we have for representing the world….Language is not only a means of communication, it is a primary instrument of thought…. Encouraging and enabling students to use language effectively is certainly one of society’s most important tasks” (International Reading Association, 1996, p. 12)

Language acquisition: reading, writing, speaking, and listening

Vocabulary and grammar

Connected to Social Studies Science: how the natural world works Social studies: the multiple roles of

humans as they adapt to their surroundings and reorganize ways they relate to each other.

National Social Studies StandardsSocial studies is the integrated study of the social science and humanities to promote civic competence. Within the school program, social studies provides coordinated, systematic study drawing upon such disciplines as anthropology, …, mathematics, and natural science. (National Council for the Social Studies, 1994, p. 3)

Connected to Social Studies

Geography

Connected to Students’ Affective and Diversity

Students’ positive attitude Teaching and learning is about the whole

child. This activity addresses cognitive, psychomotor and affective development.

Similarities and differences

Connected to Mathematics

Mathematics: the language of science Students can develop the view of mathematics

: a practical subject that can be applied to real-word situations and to problems arising in other disciplines (NCTM, 2000)

Ways of applying mathematics in scientific inquiry (Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, NCTM, 2000)

I. Quantifying the real dataII. Organizing and interpreting dataIII. Using patterns and relationshipsIV. Operating on numerical data

Connected to Science

Goals of science education

Learn ScienceConceptual

knowledge and understanding in

science

Learn about Science

Understandings about the nature of

science

Learn to do Science

Abilities to carry out scientific

inquiry

Final Thoughts

Establish learning environment Integration

“Student achievement in science and in other school subjects such as social studies, language arts, and technology is enhanced by coordination between and among the science program and other programs” (NRC, 1996, P. 214).

How could you modify this activity for your students? What could be other attributes?

Create Your Own Facial Glyphs

Facial Glyphs