EDU 371 - Elementary Science Methods and Materials
Schedule -Fall Semester 2009
updated: September 6, 2009

Class schedule url: http: www.gac.edu/~mkoomen/edu371/fallschedule371/html

NOTE: Barton= Teaching Science for Social Responsibility
CP= Course Packet

September 2009
Date & Time
Topic
Readings, assignments
and
resources
SCI/MATH
Class 1

Wednesday, September 9: 10:30 am
Intro to Sci/Math
Intro to Sci/Math
An Invitation to Teaching Science & Math
Picture a scientist....
Science Class 2

Friday, September 11:
8:00 am
What is science and who are scientists?

Barton: Chapter 1
Sci/Math reflective autobiography (second hour)
Science Class 3

Monday, September 14 8:00 am

Linking science teaching with Nobel 45: Water: Uncertain Resource

Developing Inquiry Methods with Informational questions; developing a plan to resolve inquiry questions
Science Class 4

Monday, September 14
1:30 pm
Linking science teaching with Nobel 45: Water: Uncertain Resource

Read: Chapter 2: Inquire Within: What is Inquiry?

Science Class 5
Wednesday, September 16
1:30 pm
Linking science teaching with Nobel 45: Water: Uncertain Resource
Presenting results of informational inquiry
Read in Inquire Within: Chapter 10: Using questioning skills in inquiry.
Field study topics (water quality)

Science Class 6
Friday, September 18
8:00 am
Supporting reading and language arts in a content area like science
Read in your Inclusion Section of the Course Packet: Science and Social Studies Matter to Struggling Readers.
Word scavenger hunt, science word walls
Read: Barton: Chapter 2

Science Class 7

Monday, September 21: 8:00 am
Linking science teaching with Nobel 45: Water: Uncertain Resource

Investigative inquiry and water

Teaching investigative inquiry with Project Wet and other pre-written curricula
Assessing inquiry: (Inquire Within: pages 144-157)
Science Class 8
Monday, September 21: 1:30 pm
Linking science teaching with Nobel 45: Water: Uncertain Resource
Teaching investigative inquiry with Project Wet and other pre-written curricula

Science as a Practice: Ready Set Science Chapters 1 & 2 (Course packet)
Science Class 9
Tuesday, September 22: 10:30 am
Integration of language arts and the science of water with Katrina
Science Class 10, Wednesday, September 23: 1:30 pm
or 6:30-8:30 pm
Linking science teaching with Nobel 45: Water: Uncertain Resource
Teaching investigative inquiry with Project Wet and other pre-written curricula
Planning for lessons in science
Science Class 11
Friday, September 25: 8:00 am
Cognitive clarity
Researching your teaching
Course Packet: Read :What we know about teaching phonics" (pages 105-110 are most important)
Topic: Qualitative Methods
Read in the assignment section of CP on Researching Teaching: Overview of Study of Teaching;
Descriptive Inquiry as Contemplative Practice
Science Class 12
Monday, September 28 : 10:30 am
&
1:30 pm
Peer teaching and Nobel lessons for 5th grade
Final details
After teaching notes
October
Friday, October 2, 2009
Nobel Conference for Educators and Students
8:30-2:20 pm

Nobel Conference

October 6 & 7, 2009
Water: Uncertain Resource

Service Learning: Mentoring of Science Experiments for EDU 246

Thursday, October 29, 2009 (from 4:15 to 5:45pm)
November
SCI/MATH Class 1
Monday, November 2
10:30 am

Read: Barton: Chapter 3, 4 & 5

Second hour: Topic: A Study of Teaching
(timeline and details):
Read in course packet: Chapter 5: Collecting Data in the Field

Math & Science notebook due
December
SCI/MATH Class 2
Wednesday, December 2
1:30 pm

First Hour: Read in your course packet:
the nature of inclusion in a blue ribbon school
Second hour: Topic: Qualitative Methods
Read in the assignment section of CP on Researching Teaching: Qualitative Data Analysis
SCI/MATH Class 3
Monday, December 14: 10:30 am
Research presentations to whole class
Math & Science notebook due for final check
Friday December 18

Small group final exam

10:30-12:00 or 12:15-1:45 pm