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e-Learning for Educators - Science 2.0: Using Web Tools to Promote Inquiry-Based Science
This course is offered as a part of the e-Learning for Educators project, a partnership between LEARN NC, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University College of Education, UNC-TV, DPI, and the North Carolina Virtual Public School. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Education under Grant No. U286A050018.
Course completed (taught May 12–June 29)
Use online resources to enhance inquiry-based teaching and learning in your science course. Over the course of this workshop you'll familiarize yourself with science-themed websites, online collaborative projects, science blogs and wikis, and the mapping applications Google Maps and Google Earth.
Science 2.0: Using Web Tools to Promote Inquiry-Based Science focuses on helping you identify ways to integrate these tools into your practice, and thus enrich your students’ engagement with science content. Promoting scientific inquiry is a central theme, and serves as a lens through which you'll view this course.
Prerequisites
None
Course objectives
You'll consider the issue of assessment, specifically as it relates to inquiry and the use of online tools, later in the course. As a final project, you will develop plans for an inquiry-based science lesson that uses an internet-based data source.
Audience
This course is appropriate for science teachers in grades 7-12.
Standards Alignment
This course addresses the following North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards:
- Standard III: Teachers know the content they teach
- d. Teachers make instruction relevant to students.
- Standard IV: Teachers facilitate learning for their students
- a. Teachers know the ways in which learning takes place, and they know the appropriate levels of intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of their students.
- c. Teachers use a variety of instructional methods.
- d. Teachers integrate and utilize technology in their instruction.
- e. Teachers help students develop critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Standard V: Teachers reflect on their practice
- c. Teachers function effectively in a complex, dynamic environment.
Time commitment
Approximately 2-5 hours per week
Materials required
None
