1. Teachers TryScience

2. Learning Outcomes - Session 1
Value Proposition for Teachers
Know the Teachers TryScience offering
Understand lesson format and support materials
Understand value of TTS for teachers

3. Agenda - Session 1 Review of Teachers TryScience Strategy
Value Proposition for Teachers
Review of Teachers TryScience Strategy
Key features of the website
Review of lesson format and content
Review of newer support resources
Understanding of value to teachers

4. Teachers TryScience Strategy - EMEA
Deliver programme by working with strategic partners
Use TTS to support STEM curriculum and skills agenda in your country
Enhance IBM’s engagement and visibility with key stakeholders in in education and government.

5. Teachers TryScience Site Features:
Lesson Plans and linked Resources
Teaching Strategies
STEM Tutorials
Lessons in Practice
STEM Voices + AOT THINK series
Community
Kids TryScience

6. Teachers TryScience – A Global Partnership Content partners: New York Hall of Science teachengineering.org Advisory Committee: Texas Regional Collaboratives Columbia University Foundation School of Engineering (New York) New Jersey Chamber of Commerce MyScience (Australia) King’s College/European Science Education Research Association (England)
A Global Partnership
Global Development Team: IBM is leading the technology development effort. Content partners are the New York Hall of Science, a science museum, which conducts professional development for teachers around the globe, with a focus on project-based learning
TeachEngineering.org, a collaborative project between faculty, students and teachers associated with five universities. (The universities are University of Colorado at Boulder; Oregon State University; Duke University; Colorado School of Mines; Worcester Polytechnic Institute.)
The American Society for Engineering Education, with NSF National Science Digital Library funding.
Advisory Committee, made up of leaders in teacher professional development, that were brought together to provide guidance and input into the site as it developed.

7. Teachers TryScience Lesson Overview
Design-based learning with a focus on environmental science and engineering
Integration of a number of STEM disciplines
Real-world problems and challenges
Supports development of students ’21st century’ skills
Linked to teaching strategies, instructional tools and support materials
Available for all year levels
TTS provides lessons focused on design-based learning with a unique focus on environmental science and engineering.
Engineering as a focus makes sense for IBM -- we have some of the smartest engineers on the planet.
Design-based opportunity for students’ learning across STEM disciplines. For example, to solve a problem in environmental science, students might need to employ physics, chemistry and earth science concepts and skills. A STEM integrated lesson will: stimulate critical thinking and apply inquiry skills; apply mathematical and technological solutions to engineering problems; may apply science concepts from more than one science discipline; recognise that more than one approach to problem solving may be valid; may require alternative measures of assessment; recognise that different students approach a problem or topic from different entry points; recognise that prior knowledge may determine the approach the student takes to the problem; and that sometimes the research question simply generates many more questions.
Problem solving, collaboration, reflection, inquiry, resilience - skills that students will need in the 21st century
Allows students to explore real-world problems and challenges hands-on – relevant to their environment.
Available for all year levels (focus on middle school)
Each lesson is linked to effective teaching strategies, instructional tools and support materials to ensure teachers have the confidence to deliver them.
There are plenty of sites that offer high-quality lessons - goal was to identify the very best of those, and publish them on Teachers TryScience and map them to instructional supports to enable teachers to implement them in the classroom.
Students spend a lot of time studying concepts and principles rather than learning by doing
Ingenious report – encouraging student confidence in their own skill in the subject

8. Lesson Plan Format Summary Information Goals and Prerequisites
Instructional Objectives
Instructional Resources
Extensions
Assessment and Rubrics
External Resources
Lesson Resources/Support Materials
Summary Information: Keywords, topic, diversity factors, age group, time req.
Goals and Prerequisites: aim of lesson, what the teacher wants their students to achieve – to introduce to concept of, to encourage problem solving. Preparation prior to the lesson
Instructional Objectives: what students should be able to do once they have completed the project, knowledge and skills -understand
Instructional Resources: step by step instruction for how to undertake the project, background, materials, procedure, review, evaluation – often include tutorial – how to build a biodome etc
Extensions: suggestions for extending students skills development – supports differentiation within the classroom
Assessment and Rubrics: suggestions for assessing students learning, progress
External Resources: links to websites, documents
Resources: separate tab that provides worksheets, further media materials.
Lesson Plan: Design Challenge: The Ideal Meal – students design a favorite meal and study whether what they like to eat is good for them and the planet in the long run. Explores 3 separate strands - nutritional value, environmental impact and affordability, Goal: To create a vision of a more sustainable system of food production and distribution.
To redesign a sample diet to optimize nutritional value, minimize impact on the environment and remain affordable.
Students who like to pose their own questions and talk about what they already know will be rewarded. Students who are becoming self-reflective thinkers will appreciate the opportunity to study their decisions and those of their classmates. It is good practice for students who need to be encouraged to revise their work.

9. Teaching Strategies for Effective Practice
Asking Good Questions
Group Work
Assessing Student Interest and Understanding
Differentiated Learning
What Is STEM?
What Is Engineering?
Classroom Setup
English Language Learners
Collaborative teaching
Goal is to provide teachers with the resources that they require to teach that lesson to their students effectively. 29 Teaching Strategy clips covering effective questioning. assessing student interest, classroom setup, collaborative teaching, group work, differentiated instruction and vocabulary strategies for English language learners.
Lesson Plan: A Mini World: Biodomes Engineering Design Project - A biodome is a scientific facility that creates a replica of an ecosystem in a controlled indoor environment.
In this design-based activity, students explore environments, ecosystems, energy flow and organism interactions by creating a scale model biodome.
To introduce students to a biodome and its important features
To encourage students to use design-based problem solving skills
‘What is Engineering’ clip
The supports are intended to be easily digestible, just in time supports. These are not full blown Professional Development, but they do provide teachers relevant information on demand.

10. STEM Tutorials – Content Support for Teachers
Provide effective instructional strategies and tutorials.  These resources are linked to the lessons on the site so teachers can practice and master new instructional approaches in the classroom. 
19 Tutorials: some of the lessons are quite complex. Offers teachers a practical guide on how to do the lesson with students, undertake experiments etc.
Lesson Plan: Build your own Robot Arm ppt presentation: In this lesson students develop a robot arm using common materials, exploring design, construction, teamwork, and materials selection and use. Goals: Learn design concepts.
Learn teamwork.
Learn problem solving techniques.
Learn about simple machines.

11. Teaching – Modelling Best Practice
16 Lessons in Practice: short films provide an introduction, modelling of the lesson important as teachers evaluation/reflection.
Lesson Plan: From Cradle to Grave – Product Lifecycles
Students investigate the life cycle of an engineered product and then suggest ways to reduce the product's environmental impact based on their analysis – mobile phones
Goals: To introduce the idea that products have life cycles that can be compared to the life cycles of living things
To encourage students to consider where products come from and how the life cycle of a product can impact the environment

12. STEM Voices – Women in Technology
Technologista Series: 15 clips - Women have been part of some of the most important innovations throughout IBM's history. The Technologista Series celebrates these accomplishments by showcasing 10 technical women at IBM today. Follow the series to gain valuable insights about the unique culture of IBM as well as a chance to see the faces behind the innovations that have changed our world. Learn how you can become an IBM Technologista at ibm.com/technologistas→ And follow IBMblr.tumblr.com for inspiring original content that celebrates these women.

13. Academy of Technology THINK Series - Big Brains
IBM Academy of Technology’s THINK event: Big Brains: What the brain is teaching us about computing
With the advent of cognitive computing, artificial intelligence is no longer science fiction. What will the next generation of technologists do with emerging technologies to make our planet smarter? The IBM Academy of Technology's THINK series aims to spark this and other questions in the minds of students - and make a lifelong connection with the love of science, technology and the unimaginable possibilities they offer.

14. Collaboration – Social Networking
Teachers TryScience is social networking tools.
Teachers can:
Comment and rate lessons and instructional supports, how they may have modified it for their classroom.
Create their own groups or join groups to engage in focused discussions on specific STEM topics - share strategies, effective practices around STEM learning.

15. Kids TryScience
A series of science experiments for year olds to encourage student engagement in the STEM subjects. These offline resources offer students the opportunity to extend their exploration of science independently.

16. Learning Outcomes - Session 1
Value Proposition for Teachers
Know the Teachers TryScience offering
Understand lesson format and support materials
Understand value of site for teachers

17. Actions from this Session
Explore TTS site – know 3-4 lessons in detail
Familiarise yourself with the secondary school science curriculum - key topics and skill focus
Set meetings to introduce TTS to potential partner organisations

18. Upcoming Enablement - Teachers Try Science
Thursday 23/1 MEA Session 1 Site content
Monday 27/1 EUR Session 2 TTS Implementation
Wednesday 29/1 MEA Session 2 TTS Implementation