Integrating the Life Sciences from Molecule to Organism The American Physiological Society Transform...

Integrating the Life Sciences from Molecule to Organism

The American Physiological Society

Transform a Cookbook Lab

Moving Toward More Student-Centered Learning

Margaret Shain Stieben, Program Manager, APS K-12 Education Programs



Workshop Goals: To provide…• an introduction to American Physiological

Society• a brief summary of the Next Generation

Science Standards and how they should effect your teaching

• APS Six Star Science and Transform a Cookbook Lab

• a brief overview of the LifeSciTRC digital library and how to easily search for lessons/activities and tools to update lab activities



The Society has many roles:

Publications-14 scholarly journals Membership- ~ 10,000members Scientific Meetings/conferences Science Policy Communications Education



APS Education Office

K-12 Outreach Student Awards Faculty Awards Professional Skills

Training Programs for Teachers/Faculty

Curricular Resources



• A summer research experience that includes 7-8 weeks in a member research lab

• Fellows participate in a dynamic and interactive virtual learning community that focuses on exploring effective teaching strategies, understanding the research process, and enhancing teachers materials.

• Guided and open inquiry lessons are modeled as teachers work through a 9 month online program that build skill sets that teachers can continue to use long after their fellowship ends.



Framework for K-12 Science Education Science for All Americans (1989) , Benchmarks for Science Literacy (1993), and National Education Standards (1996)

• describes the major practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas that all students should be familiar with by the end of high school

• provides an outline of how these practices, concepts, and ideas should be developed across the grade levels.



Only 13 states have adopted the NGSS at this time:

California Delaware

Illinois KansasKentucky MarylandOregon NevadaNew Jersey Rhode IslandVermont WashingtonWest Virginia Washington, DC

So what should you do if your state hasn’t

adopted the standards?



Think about the Framework…all state standards should be based on it!

Scientific and Engineering Practices• Focus on the important practices used by scientists and

engineers.• Engaging in the full range of scientific practices helps students

to understand how scientific knowledge is developed, appreciate the wide range of approaches, and understanding the link between science and engineering.

Crosscutting Concepts• Provide students with ways to connect knowledge from the various

disciplines.• Student’s understanding of these crosscutting concepts should be

reinforced by repeated use in instruction.• Students should be taught the crosscutting concepts in ways that

illustrate their applicability across all the core ideas.



Asking Questions and Defining Problems

Using Models

Conducting Investigations

Analyzing Data

Using Mathematics

Constructing Explanations/Designing Solutions

Arguing from Evidence

Communicating Information

Scientific and Engineering Practices

Principle goals are to “engage in scientific inquiry” and to “reason in scientific context”



Crosscutting Concepts

Patterns

Cause and Effect:

Mechanism and explanation

Scale, proportion, and

quantity

Systems and System Models

Energy and Matter: Flows,

cycles and conservation

Stability and Change

Structure and Function



Core IdeasLife Science Earth & Space

Sciences

Physical Science Engineering & Technology



Focus on Student-Centered Learning

Transition away from faculty-centered teaching and presenting all the facts

Move towards clearly articulating expected student learning outcomes and following the students’ progression in achieving those outcomes



APS Six Star Science for Student Centered Learning

• Student centered instruction is at the heart of exemplary science education.

• Valuing diversity among students is a defining characteristic of excellence in science education.

• Integrating technology to enhance learning is particularly important in science education.

• Authentic assessment focuses on both content and process skills.

• Utilizing accurate and timely content information is central to scientific study.

• Reflecting on teaching and learning is essential to maintaining excellence in science education.



To move from cookbook labs

to more student centered labs!

Now it is your turn…

Level 3 = “Cookbook Lab”

Inquiry Rating

Prelab Lab Postlab

Proposes the problem or issue to be explored

Plans the procedure to be

used

Carries out the

procedure

Supplies answers or

conclusions

Lab outcomes determine applications, implications, or

further exploration/ instruction.

0 Teacher Teacher Teacher

Teacher Teacher


Teacher Teacher/Student


Student Student

3 Teacher Teacher Student

Student Student

4 Teacher/Student Student Studen

tStuden

t Student

5 Student Student Student

Student Student

Inquiry Rating Scale

From Frank X. Sutman, Senior Scholar, Science Education, TempleUniversity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the AAAS,Philadelphia, PA, February 1998



Your Mission• Work together with

2-3 other teachers at tables with the materials that are provided.

• Follow the directions that are supplied to complete your transformation activity.

• Be ready to give a short explanation of your cookbook lab rewrite to the group.

• If time allows look at the total activity and discuss the standards that might be addressed.



– Presentations– Questions– Debrief



LifeSci TRC.orgHow to use our digital library of

resources to find lessons/activities

http://www.lifescitrc.org/index.cfm



Membership is free and easy to obtain with many benefits



APS Resources

Frontiers in Physiology Research Teacher Professional

Development Fellowship

PhUn Week- 1st full week of November

Local and Regional Science Fair Awards

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