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