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STYD: STEM to Your Doorstep – MSO (K-12)

Mountain Horticultural Crops Research & Ext. Center, 455 Research Drive, Mills River, NC

  Grade Level(s): K-12 Date(s):  January 12, 2024 (9:00 AM - 3:00 PM) Location: Mountain Horticultural Crops Research & Ext. Center, 455 Research Drive, Mills River, NC 28759 Cost: $65 Description: K-12 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics teachers, what do you need to boost the STEM curriculum in your schools?  How about free access to technology, resources, and lab…

$65

Introduction to Modeling and the Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs) – Cullowhee NCCAT

NCCAT - Cullowhee Campus 276 NCCAT Dr, Cullowhee, NC, United States

NC has new science standards that leverage Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs). Modeling is the central practice of the SEPs. This research-based, reform-oriented pedagogy helps correct the many weaknesses of the lecture-demonstration method of instruction found in many classrooms, including the fragmentation of knowledge, student passivity, and the persistence of naive beliefs about the physical world. Scientists learn by doing: they…

Free

Shifting from A Sage on the Stage to a Guide on the Side – NCCAT Ocracoke Campus

NCCAT Ocracoke Campus 2 Irvin Garrish Hwy, Ocracoke, United States

Active learners make the best learners.  In the learner role this week, participants will experience a variety of collaborative, engaging, and minds-on strategies.  We will compare and contrast "old school" methods with more inquiry-based pedagogy.  In the teacher role this week, we will analyze how to shift traditional good lessons to great lessons.  Tony Wagner’s…

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Introduction to Modeling and the Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs) – Ocracoke NCCAT

NCCAT Ocracoke Campus 2 Irvin Garrish Hwy, Ocracoke, United States

NC has new science standards that leverage Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs). Modeling is the central practice of the SEPs. This research-based, reform-oriented pedagogy helps correct the many weaknesses of the lecture-demonstration method of instruction found in many classrooms, including the fragmentation of knowledge, student passivity, and the persistence of naive beliefs about the physical world. Scientists learn by doing: they…

Free