Cargill Grant Grants and Research Office嘉吉助学金补助和研究办公室.ppt

Cargill Grant 2010-2013 Program Presenters Angie Jerabek Al Wachutka Erica Lenzen Mark Miller Pat Hartman The Need Varying levels of expertise Low Achievement Scores Standards require Engineering Reading and Math At the HS level less than 1% of minority students in IB/AP Courses What Makes this Program Unique? High School Science Teachers not outside experts Connection (Students and HS teachers and HS teachers and Elementary teachers) The Start of the Process Science in SLP Elementary Schools(supplies and budget) Met with TOSAs from each building Team met at each building All K-5 teachers in the district attended a EiE training by SMM Aligned standards, PYP(IB) and EiE Road Blocks Will this create extra work for us? Can a High School teacher effectively teach elementary students? Will we lose elementary FTEs? Will each school have equal access to supplies and resources? Initial Elementary Teacher Concerns: Road Blocks Elementary grade team relationships and ability to plan in advance Difficulty linking MN Science standards to available EiE kits in grades 3 and 5 Misunderstanding science standards Teacher difficulty understanding how science can integrate into PYP planners What The Program provides EiE Instruction Curriculum Design and Alignment Science Demonstrations Family Science Night SLP Science Website Supplies Engineering is Elementary Javier likes to play in his fort, which is across a small creek from his home in Texas. ?When his stepsister follows him, she wobbles on the makeshift bridge and falls ? Lesson 1: Literacy into the creek. forbid him from going to his fort, so Javier comes up with a plan: he must build a bridge that is both strong and stable. ?Luckily, Javiers stepfather Joe is a civil engineer and can guide him through the Engineering Design Process. Engineering is Elementary In Building Bridges, students learn about force - pushes and pulls - and investigate the forces at work in