1. Mr. Dane Jaber Miami-Dade County Public Schools Department of Science
Science ICAD: Middle School
Session 3
Mr. Dane Jaber
MS Instructional Supervisor
Ms. Cindy Jolicoeur
Curriculum Support Specialist K-8
Ms. Vanessa Baker
Curriculum Support Specialist MS
Welcome to the third Middle School Science ICAD powercast

2. AGENDA Welcome and Ice Breaker Investigating plants
Unwrapping Standards
Sense making
Designing sense making opportunities
Virtual Walkthroughs
Reflection
This powercast is designed to recap the events of the day, explore and design sense making opportunities shared at the professional development.
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3. Session Outcomes Participants will be able to:
Incorporate M-DCPS instructional resources to support science teaching and learning
Identify how M-DCPS integrates Mathematics and Language Arts Florida Standards for effective science teaching and learning
Support Inquiry in science
In this session we survey inquiry based activities to reinforce literacy, effective science teaching and learning.
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4. Investigating Plants
(After your investigation) What do you find? What do you still want to know?
We explored an 8th grade Essential Lab Investigating Plants as open inquiry so that participants can give meaning to their experiences. Essential Labs can be found on the science.dadeschools.net website.
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5. Redesign in Mind…
To start, participants observed plant leaf disks and contemplated the factors necessary for plant photosynthesis. Then, participants redesigned an experiment to test variables that would influence the rate of photosynthesis.
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6. Making Sense?
Teachers shared their results as a scientific explanation using CER to make sense of their findings.
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7. Investigating Plants
A New Form of Chlorophyll? Text coding: 6, 7 or 8 – Relates to a specific grade level’s content H – Hypothesis O - Observation
To wrap up the activity and provide a real world extension to the concepts investigated, participants used text coding strategies such as marking 6th and 7th grade aligned content to add focus to the informational text that accompanied the essential lab. These articles can be found on the science.dadeschools.net website under the instructional resources tab.
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8. Unwrapping the Standards
After participants shared their experiences, they targeted the ways in which they can facilitate sense making for their students within the classroom by unwrapping the benchmark to address prior knowledge, resources and the content and skills necessary to master that benchmark.
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9. Making sense of sense making
STEM Teaching Tool – Beyond the Written CER
K-12 Science Plan
NSTA – What Works in Science
Account of Sense-Making in
Scientific Argumentation and Reasoning
What is the core message of the reading?
What is unexpected (attention grabbing or violates some idea)?
How can you concretely represent the core message?
In order to understand science learning, teachers explored a myriad of articles that offer an approach to teacher learning that focuses on science understanding, classroom practice and literacy support.
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10. Into the Looking Glass
After observing how the readings applied to the practice of science, teachers shared their interpretation of the “into the looking glass” protocol where they were able to reflect on the critical connections to their own classrooms necessary to teach students effectively.
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11. Virtual Walkthrough
On a virtual walkthrough, participants analyzed practices or products found in several science classrooms for evidence that sense making in science was taking place. Participants identified images that may display instances that lend itself to sense making as well as images of everyday occurrences that may be typical in a classroom but may not suffice as a display of student acquisition of knowledge.
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12. STEM Conference
So what’s new? Be sure to save the date. On February 16, 2016, the Dade County Science Teachers Association and Miami Dade County Public Schools will host the annual STEM Conference at Miami Senior High School. More information will be forthcoming through MyLearningPlan.
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13. Science Department Dr. Ava D. Rosales Executive Director Elementary
Middle School
High School
Dr. Millard Lightburn
Supervisor
Mr. Dane Jaber
Mr. Sebastian Oddone
Ms. Mary Tweedy
Curriculum Support
Specialist
Ms. Cindy Jolicoeur
Curriculum Support Specialist
Mr. Daniel Gangeri
Ms. Noreyda Casanas
Ms. Vanessa Baker
Ms. Yusimi Osteen
Ms. Mildred Farber
District Administrative Assistant
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We thank you for viewing this Powercast.  We look forward to seeing these plans in action and to continue supporting your science leaders in future ICADS. If you should need additional assistance, please contact the appropriate staff member within the Science Department.
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