Instructional Strategy Sample Workshops:
Teaching with a Full Deck: Card Sorts
Use Your Noodle – Tips from Neuroscience to Sauce up Your Lessons
Cool Observations that lead to Hot Questions
STEM Integration: Statistics is the Connection
Math-based Sample Workshops:
Back to Basics: Mathematical Play
Context is Critical: 6th-12th Grade Three Act Math Tasks
Context is Critical: K-5th Grade Three-Act Math Tasks
STEM Storytelling: Using Picture Books to Integrate Mathematics – “Dare to Tinker”
STEM Storytelling: Using Picture Books to Integrate Mathematics – “Who Lives Here?”
Understanding Mathematics Through Nonverbal Communication
It’s a Wrap: Investigate the concepts of surface area, measurement, ratio and proportion through a visual and kinesthetic mathematical investigation.
Problem-Based Mathematics: You Reap What You Sow
Pipelines and Oil Spills! : Probability and Ratios
The Growth of Uncertainty: One Grain of Rice – Exponential vs Linear Growth
Quadratic Functions: As Simple As A, B, C
Exploration Geometry: Hands-On Transformations
Science-based Sample Workshops
Little Changes: Evolving Your Lessons with Kid-Friendly Text and Inquiry Activities
“To Infinity and Beyond” – Exploring ways to teach an abstract concept
Is it all Just Random? – Probability and Genetics
Forensic Metallurgy – A Challenge in Basic Measurements
Building Stonehenge: Engineering Science
Engineering with Reinforced Concrete: Material Science
Building a Microbial Fuel Cell
Don’t overdose the patient: A unit conversion literacy project
