Curriculum+Workshop-+Activity+Design+One+-+Science

- toc = Experimental Design Using Digital Manipulatives (Applets) = In this session, we will be learning about how to improve student experimental design through the use of digital manipulatives (applets) in a collaborative manner. We will begin by participating in a short lesson focused on using an applet to develop an experiment to study the concepts of density and buoyancy. Next, you will learn to leverage applets and Primary Pad such that students can develop experimental designs. Finally, you will create your own activity based upon TPACK- Technology (Applets and Primary Pad), Pedagogy (using applets to develop experimental design skills), and Content (your choice).

Session Objectives:

 * To explore the affordances and limitations of applets when designing experiments
 * To understand how to leverage collaboration tools (Primary Pad) for student work
 * To collaboratively develop a rich resource of digital manipulatives

Standards Targeted for Curriculum Workshop 1 (NETS and State)
= I. Show One (25 min) =

(5 min.) A. First, go to: @http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/density-and-buoyancy/density_en.html and spend 3 minutes "playing around"! Enjoy the disco music as you play!



(5 min.) B. Next, we will generate some questions we have about the applet as we were playing around with it.

1.) In terms of studying density, what do you like about this applet? 2.) What do you dislike? 3.) Did you find that the applet did not work as you had expected? Explain.

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(10 min) C. Next, we will organize ourselves into 5-6 groups (pairs of three students). Using Primary Pad, each group will create an experimental design to study density and bouyancy using the applet. The experimental design should be numbered and include the following:

Your names (First Name, Last initital)

1.) Your testing procedure (numbered) 2.) Information about what data you will be collecting

Demonstration of Primary Pad

Develop your design on the following Primary Pads: Group 1: (How would one compare the densities of two materials?) @http://beta.primarypad.com/p/iufVqHH7rF Group 2: (How could you study buoyancy?) @http://beta.primarypad.com/p/oahEkUS8p9 Group 3: (How would one compare the densities of two materials?) @http://beta.primarypad.com/p/oV4bkprOlP Group 4: (Using the "mystery", how would one determine the densities of the blocks?) @http://beta.primarypad.com/p/sdOcMsmapi Group 5: (How could you study buoyancy?) @http://beta.primarypad.com/p/9HnExZtt0x Group 6: (Using the "mystery", how would one determine the densities of the blocks?) @http://beta.primarypad.com/p/B2hxUEKscZ

(5 min) D. Each team should now go to another team's design and critique it. What questions should we be asking ourselves as we do this?

= II. Teach One (20 min) =

A. In your specific discipline, spend 10 minutes finding applets that you feel would be useful in terms of working with students to design experiments. Enter the URLs to your applets at: media type="custom" key="19299018"

@http://beta.primarypad.com/p/vgTq7aHHox

B. Now choose two applets and analyze them in terms of their affordances and limitations as technology tools. We will do a group share.

C. Interested in learning how to use Primary Pad?

= III. Reflection (5 min) =

Let's use TodaysMeet to discuss how this lesson reflects TPACK.



@http://todaysmeet.com/SCW1

= IV. Do One (35 min) =

Now you will create an activity of your own. To do so, develop your activity in a document based upon the template below and then add it to the Discussion Board.

1. Create a science/health/or other science activity that incorporates an interactive applet and perhaps primary pad. 2. Create a discussion post with the title of your activity as subject line. Paste your activity in the body of the discussion post. 3. Peer review each others activities by leaving comments. include component="comments" page="space.template.Integration" limit="20"

= IV. Debrief =

We will have a scribe take notes on our debrief on this wiki!