Webinar Series:
Modeling Science Instruction
How can teachers use modeling to identify gaps in learning and address learning differences?
Join nationally recognized education consultant Kristen Dotti for a 90-minute webinar on how teachers can use modeling, a science and engineering practice that is used to develop questions, predictions, and explanations; analyze and identify flaws in systems; and communicate ideas.
Dotti will moderate the event. Multiple life and physical science demonstrations will be provided that incorporate such tools as diagrams, drawings, physical replicas, mathematical representations, analogies, and computer simulations.
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Data Analysis and Computational Thinking
How can teachers integrate mathematics into their science instruction while building student engagement?
Mathematics can be an inhibiting subject for some students and science teachers, but that does not need to be the case, nationally recognized education consultant Kristen Dotti says.
Join Dotti for a webinar designed to help teachers integrate the scientific and engineering practices of analyzing and interpreting data and using mathematics and computational thinking into instruction.
Dotti will moderate the event, which will include multiple life and physical science demonstrations and easy-to-use examples.
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Arguments from Evidence and Communicating
Join Kristen Dotti and Carolina staff for a 75-minute webinar on how teachers can help students discover how to build arguments from evidence and communicate their findings. Dotti will moderate the event. Multiple examples of phenomena-based investigations will be demonstrated by Carolina staff.
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Planning Investigations, Asking Questions, Defining Problems
In this 75-minute webinar with Kristen Dotti and Carolina staff, registrant will demonstrate Carolina 3D Kits that prompt students to plan and carry out several different kinds of investigations, either structured by the teacher–in order to expose an issue or question that they would be unlikely to explore on their own to those that emerge from students’ own questions. Demonstrations will focus on how scientific investigations may be undertaken to describe a phenomenon, or to test a theory or model for how the world works while asking questions and defining problems for further investigation.
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Presenter:
Kristen Dotti
Kristen Dotti is a geneticist by training and a classroom teacher who has spent 27 years teaching high school AP® and IB® science and mathematics. She writes full-year and case study curricula using exclusively hands-on methods for implementing student-centered NGSS practices. For the last 15 years, she has worked with schools and districts on long-term improvement plans for the professional development of faculty, focusing in particular on increasing student engagement and critical thinking.
Previous popular webinars by Dotti include Teaching Science Remotely, Leading High School Science Investigations Remotely, Making Thinking Visible, and Finish the Year Strong and Prep for the Future.
Please contact Kristen at kristen.dotti@catalystlearningcurricula.com, or visit Catalyst Learning Curricula for more information on how she helps teachers.
Additional Reading: Webinar: Making Thinking Visible
