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| Name: | Audrey Sturgis
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| Experience: | 13 years
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| Grade & Subjects: | Year 1 - Grade 8, Science and Social Studies;
Year 2 - Grade 7 - Science
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| Demographics: | Middle school in an inner city setting
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| Classroom: | 3 sections, 90 students total; 90% African-American
and Hispanic
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| Science Teaching: | 90 minute sessions on alternate days of
the week
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| Curriculum: | Developed by teacher
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| Other: | Third year teaching middle grades, background in elementary education |
Things to ponder before and after Workshop 1:
1. What are some strategies that you can use to make connections between science and students' lives?
2. Where do you think a knowledge of science fits into the real world that confronts students today?
3. How would you develop a curriculum where you were as much a science learner as your students?
Assignment;
In preparation for Workshop 2, please interview a few of your students (2 to 5 students). Have some boiling water available at the beginning of each interview. Say that you are boiling water, and you would like the interviewee to tell you what is in the bubbles that form at the bottom of the pot or beaker or flask. Then ask how he/she thinks that substance has formed.
Record the results of your first question for Assignment 1 on the enclosed chart.
