Does your science program need a tune-up? Learn how to differentiate science instruction for all students by focusing on core concepts relevant to all grade levels. Participants will leave with resources to transform their science classrooms into exciting, interactive, and progressive environments that are inclusive for all students. Presenter(s): David Mense

1. FAST & LOUD
Rev Up Science Literacy in Your School
By
David Mense – Craven County Schools

3. TRANSFORM YOUR CLASSROOM

4. “ECO-FRIENDLY” VERSION

5. •How do you prepare students
for jobs that don’t yet exist?

6. •Thinking Skills
•Communication Skills
•Collaboration Skills

7. TEACHING STYLES
•Didactic
•Inquiry
•Combination
•Laboratory Experiments

8. •“Inquirize” Your Teaching
Everett, S., & Moyer, R. (2007)
•The Many Levels of Inquiry
Banchi, H., & Bell, R. (2008)

9. INQUIRY CONTINUUM
•Confirmation Inquiry
•Structured Inquiry
•Guided Inquiry
•Open Inquiry

10. WHAT IS INQUIRY?
•5E lesson format – engage, explore, explain,
elaborate, evaluate
•Discrepant Events
•PBL – Problem-based; Project-based – Is there a
difference?

11. WHAT IS NEEDED ?
•Conceptual Understanding
•Foundational Science Literacy
•Emphasis on written explanation

12. WHAT IF?
•Approach education from a different way from
when we were kids.

15. •Teach in Silos – NC Essential Standards are set up
in this fashion
•Cross cutting concepts – cross curricular
•Scientific Root Words, Prefixes and Suffixes

16. CORE CONCEPTS
•Energy
•Water
•Cycles
•Density
•Convection
•Matter

17. •Teach to your strength!
•YOU make the difference!

18. DEMONSTRATIONS

19. QUESTIONS
•Contact Information:
David Mense
Craven County Schools
252-514-6450
davidmense52@gmail.com