3/3 MS Science Teachers

Hosted the Middle School Science Teachers at the Cambridge Innovation Center.

Some of the Highlights from Twitter:

Thank you @cmcgee200 for organizing a great day learning & connecting at @CIC_StLouis school should be more like CIC pic.twitter.com/7hOrjhKtfF

— Patrick Dempsey (@midschoolsci) March 3, 2016

@CortexSTL for science 6-7 day. So pumped. Thanks @cmcgee200 pic.twitter.com/Lb06qagbpG

— rrambach (@rrambach) March 3, 2016

Other Highlights:

"Thanks for today, it was really great.  You know sometimes we don't know what we really need."

and

"the pd yesterday was so refreshing!  It is really important for us to think outside of our normal 'boxes' in order to keep learning.  Yesterday was a great day of learning.  Thank you for listening to us and planning such an exciting day."


The agenda:

8:30 - 9:00 - Check in, Why are we at the CIC?

• Sup
• Tour of Facility
• Why are we here

8:50 Phyllis Ellison: Director of Entrepreneur Services and Institutional & Corporate Partnerships CORTEX Innovation Community

Between 9 and 11 Brian Cudney, MBA Director, Chemistry, Mfg, and Cntrl Regulatory Sciences Specialty Solutions Cardinal health

Notes?

9:00 - 10:00 Engineering Design progression

1. Look at this: http://www.nextgenscience.org/msets-ed-engineering-design,
2. read this: http://www.nextgenscience.org/sites/ngss/files/MS%20ETS%20Storyline%20-%20DCI%20and%20Topic-6.13.13.pdf
3. Author/develop/design a progression of experiences/products and processes

PD Design Squad

Design thinking

WG K-5 Learning Cycle

10:00 - 11:00 Changes/Edits to curriculum documents

Lunch - Walk to Ikea

12:00 Jen Marcus Director USG Strategic Partnerships Planet Labs AND Dan Marcus President, Radiologics and WASHU Labs manager

1:15pm Chris Ruzika Director of Business Development, St. Louis TechShop, Inc.

Department time

6th Grade	Finish Natural Selection SLO Earth Science Check in MAJORITY OF TIME: Steger School-wide Project
7th Grade	Add engineering experiences tied to existing units (develop scales, goals, assessments?) Energy goals?(water cycle, predicting weather, etc.) Add new ‘forces and motions’ goals to weather common assessment for weather
8th Grade	Formatives and summatives creation and revision Develop CORE Experiences, Field Trips, Activities, Inquiries reflection on chemistry and forces units.   Core experiences for wave energy.  (discuss and adjust)

2:30 WRAP UP

• After Implementation Timeline Draft 3
• Future Meetings and Summer Schedule
• Transition to Venture Cafe

Grade	Summer hours needed	Dates
6	12	June 9th and 10th
7	18	June 13 14 15
8	3 hours each day = 9 hours total	June 20, 21, 22

Resources:

• How to write an assessment video OR Slides

• Learning opportunities options: draft version of this (Social Studies Sample) (3rd grade Sample)
• Evidence Statements Again http://www.nextgenscience.org/k-5-evidence-statements
• The Hub
• CNI server:
• in district: type \\wgco-fileserver\CNI into the "run" box by the windows logo.

from home: portal.webster.k12.mo.us