Documents and Materials
The page contains links to documents and presentations from the Summer 2010 Teacher Academy and materials from the October 9, 2010 session at CSUEB.
5 E's Instructional Model from BSCS (Word)
2.3 STANDARDS-BASED UNIT DESIGN TEMPLATE (Word)
LIFT OFF Countdown Checklist (Word)
Instructional Case Exemplar: Is There Life Beyond Earth? (Word)
Presentation Poster Example: Is There an Earth-like Water Cycle on Mars? (Powerpoint 2.5 MB)
Simplified Model Lesson: What is Life? (Word)
Jorgensen's Case Studies (Word documents in zip file)
DAY 1
1.2 LIFT OFF Overview (Powerpoint 2.5 MB)
1.2.1 Establishing Norms (Powerpoint)
1.2.2 Decision Making video (wmv 4.8 MB)
1.2.3 Norms of Collaboration (Word)
1.2.4 Norms of Collaboration Explained (Word)
1.4 Instructional Case Overview and Criteria (Word)
1.5 The Search for Water (Powerpoint 2.5 MB)
1.6 Cube Activity chapter from Teaching Evolution and the Nature of Science (pdf)
1.6 Cube Activity templates (pdf)
1.6 5 E's Instructional Model from BSCS (Word)
1.6 Classroom Inquiry Rubric (Word)
1.6 Inquiry and Science Education: Cube Activity (Powerpoint 1 MB)
1.7 5 E's Inquiry Analysis Activity (Word)
1.7 Investigation and Experimentation Content Standards (pdf)
1.7 Schwab/Herron Levels of Laboratory Openness (Powerpoint)
1.7 Making Labs More Open Ended (Powerpoint 2.3 MB)
DAY 2
2.1 Inquiry Rubric (Word)
2.1 Footprints (Word)
2.1 What Do the Footprints Say??? An Inquiry Approach to Problem Solving (Powerpoint 1.9 MB)
2.2 THINKING MAPS: Tools for Cognitive Development (Powerpoint)
2.3 PLANNING SMART? Improving Student Achievement (Powerpoint 2.7 MB)
2.3 STANDARDS-BASED UNIT DESIGN TEMPLATE (Word)
2.4 Greenhouse Warming in a Jar Activity Draft (Word)
2.5 The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change (Powerpoint 4.8 MB)
2.6 Herschel Infrared Experiment (pdf)
2.6 Ritter Ultraviolet Experiment (pdf)
2.6 Getting Dirty on Mars Activity (pdf 6.3 MB)
2.6 Getting Dirty on Mars Lab Cards (pdf)
2.8 21st Century Skills from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (pdf 2 MB)
DAY 3
3.1 Leadership Compass presentation (Powerpoint 1 MB)
3.1 Leadership Card (Word)
3.2 Assessing Student Achievement using Multiple Measures (Powerpoint)
3.3 Grammar Glossary (pdf)
3.3 Academic Language of Science (pdf)
3.3 How to Start Academic Conversations (pdf 1.7 MB)
3.3 DRTA Graphic Organizer (Word)
3.3 Exomoons Article from Scientific American (pdf )
3.3 Lesson Plan for Exomoon article (Word)
3.3 Anticipation Guide (Word)
3.3 Reading Strategies Presentation (Powerpoint 1.2 MB)
3.3 Reading Strategies Handout (Word)
3.3 What Good Readers Do (Word)
3.5 21st Century Skills (Powerpoint 2.4 MB)
3.5 Follow the Water (pdf)
3.5 Meteors, Meteorites, Impacts and Other Things That Can Kill Us (Powerpoint 6.5 MB)
3.5 Meteors, Meteorites, Impacts and Other Things That Can Kill Us media files (zip folder containing animations 11.9 MB)
3.6 Instructional Case Planning Form (Word)
3.8 Rubric of Emerging Teacher Leadership (pdf)
DAY 4
4.1 Professional Learning Communities (Powerpoint 2.6 MB)
4.2 Detecting Elements and Molecules using Spectral "Fingerprints" (Powerpoint 3.3 MB)
4.4 Spectroscopy Laboratory Activity (pdf)
DAY 5
5.1 Black Box Investigation (Word)
5.2 Extremophiles (Powerpoint 13 MB)
5.3 Draft of Scientific Discourse Patterns for Primary and Secondary Student Discourse Patterns (Word)
5.3 Strategy Glossary (Word)
5.3 Reading Frame: Characteristics of Life (Word)
5.3 Scaffolding Science Writing (Word)
5.3 Characteristics of Life: Vocabulary Rating Scale (Word)
5.5 Cratering Activity (pdf)
DAY 6
6.1 Human Physiology in Space (Powerpoint 2.8 MB)
6.2 Inquiry and Process Skills (Exploratorium) (pdf 1.5 MB)
6.3 Academic Vocabulary 3 Tiers of Words (Powerpoint 2 MB)
6.3 Orbits of Jupiter's Moons activity (pdf)
DAY 7
7.1 Raising Questions (Institute for Inquiry, Exploratorium) (pdf)
7.2 Cosmology presentation (Powerpoint 4.6 MB)
7.4 The Sun and Sunspots presentation (Powerpoint 2 MB)
7.4 The Sun and Sunspots presentation media (zip file with Quicktime movies 16.8 MB)
7.4 SOHO Fact Sheet (pdf)
DAY 8
Hayward Fault tour base map (pdf 35.1 MB)
Hayward Fault tour answer key (pdf 17.4 MB)
San Francisco Bay Area earthquake probabilities (USGS) (pdf 9.7 MB)
Forecasting California's Earthquakes–What Can We Expect in the Next 30 Years? (USGS) (pdf 1.5 MB)
DAY 9
9.3 World Cafe presentation (Powerpoint)
9.5 Critical Friends Tuning Protocol (Word)
9.5 NSRF Tuning Protocol (pdf)
DAY 10
10.1 Instructional Case Project Implementation Activities and Timeline (Word)
10.2 Instructional Case Quality Criteria Assessment (Word)
10.3 NASA LIFT OFF Teaching Observation Protocol (Word)
October 9, 2010 session at CSUEB
Agenda (Word)
Standards-based Unit Design Template (Word)
Instructional Case Quality Criteria Assessment (Word)
LIFT OFF Countdown Checklist (Word)
NASA LIFT OFF Teaching Observation Protocol (Word)
Rubric for Evaluating Student Capstone Science Project (Word)
Socratic Seminar Pictures (Powerpoint)
Link to NPR audio and transcript: 'Goldilocks' Planet's Temperature Just Right For Life
Notetaking for Audio Clip (Word)
Lecture Log: Gliese 581 g (Word)
Radial Velocity Method Activity from PlanetQuest (pdf)
Gliese 581 g science presentation (Powerpoint - 5.5 MB)
Link to UNL Astronomy animation that illustrates how the spectrum of a star is shifted as it and its planet orbit their common center of mass.
Link to UNL Astronomy animation that shows a star and planet in orbit around each other while tracing out the star's radial velocity curve.