Resources

Materials from our K-12 Partnership Workshops:

2015

April 15: Inferring Function from Form

• Plenary: Dr. Ryan Bebej from Calvin College. Walking with whales: the origin and evolution of cetaceans
  • Powerpoint slides HERE.
• Materials from Concurrent Sessions:
  • Cheryl Hach’s Speak Up! Incorporating discourse into your life science classroom.
    • Presentation slides
    • Talk Science Primer
    • The Inquiry Project website – includes video examples of productive classroom discourse.
  • Tom Schaefer’s Hookeing up with the Microscope.
    • Follow THIS LINK to: 1) go to a ‘Light Box’ with instructions as to how to acheive Darkfield micrsocopy inexpensively on a Brightfield microscope, 2) JOIN a special webinar for K-12 partnership participants only!

2014

November 12: Coevolution and Crosscutting concepts

• Anne-Marie Hoskinson. Ping Pong, Zombies, and Influenza: Let’s Build a Model!
  
  • Follow-up document from the session that outlines how to make a prediction from a model.

• Matt Rowe, plenary speaker. Ground squirrels, rattlesnakes, and burrowing owls: the legend of the “happy family”?
  • Talk powerpoint slides HERE.
  • Contact info: Department of Zoology, 288 Farm Lane, Room 203 Natural Science, Michigan State University. rowemat1@msu.edu , http://venomevolution.zoology.msu.edu

• Liz Ratashak and Shaun Davis. Physics: Is your laptop making you sterile? Modeling waves and energy.
  • Electromagnetic spectrum
  • Evaluating validity and reliability of claims

 Summer Institute – June 23-25

• Science and Decision Making: How do we support our students in understanding complex socio-scientific issues in the media? PDF of session presentation by Hannah Miller and Andy Anderson.

2013

November 13: Integrating Water Cycling and Ecosystems

• • Elena Litchman
    • Robotic fish video link
    • Nerpa (endemic Lake Baikal seal) video link
  • GLBRC
    • John Greenler’s powerpoint PDF

• Summer Institute (June 24-26)
  • Carolyn Malmstrom
  • Catherine Lindell – Limiting Bird Damage to Fruit Crops Website
    • Wall Street Journal article on Dr. Lindell’s anti-crop damage scarecrows.
  • Maren Friesen
  • NGSS slides (from Sara S., Nancy K, and Cheryl Hach)
  • Keeling Curve-arama (Session by Jenny Dauer)
    • powerpoint, transcripts, animated ‘pumphandle’ graph
    • support documents: 1, 2, 3, 4

March 21:

• • Dave Warners’ slides pdf
  • Link to Plaster Creek Stewards website
  • Joe Krajcik’s slides pdf
  • Link to Project GREEEN website

2012

• Dec. 5: Joe Dauer’s slides pdf
• October 3: Steve Hamilton’s slides pdf
• Summer Institute: Julie Doll’s slides pdf

2011

• October 5:
  • Tammy Long’s slides pdf
  • Tom Getty’s State of the Plot slides pdf

Important KBS GK-12 Documents:

2013 GK-12 Fellow Application and Agreement

2012 GK-12 Partner Teacher Application and Agreement

Fellow Orientation Materials:

• NSF synopsis of the national GK-12 program
• Overview of the KBS GK-12 program
• Summary of the KBS GK-12 program
• Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC)
• NSF Math Science Partnership for Culturally Relevant Ecology (MSP )
• adapting research to inquiry lessons pdf
• ‘recipe for success’ pdf
• Agendas (pdf):   2010 ,  2011 , 2012

Other useful materials and links:

• Stated Clearly – videos and resources for understanding science. http://www.statedclearly.com/
• OnlineCourses.com – Database of online university open courseware with tools to track courses taken and progress made.