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Engaging Elementary Teachers in Science through Innovative Curriculum and Video Lessons

This presentation outlines an effective approach to enhance elementary teachers’ attitudes toward science education through a collaborative curriculum designed for fifth-grade students. By integrating thematic units and engaging video lessons, the program motivates both teachers and students. The curriculum includes hands-on activities, alternative assessments, field trip suggestions, and a variety of learning mediums to make science relatable. Data shows significant improvements in student achievement and teacher content knowledge, emphasizing the importance of inquiry-based learning in fostering a love for science.

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Engaging Elementary Teachers in Science through Innovative Curriculum and Video Lessons

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  1. Sci TV Miami-Dade County Public Schools Division of Mathematics and Science Education

  2. Survey Time • Do you have elementary teachers who cringe when you mention the word science? • Do you have elementary teachers who show less than a loving attitude toward science? • Do you have principals who say what science program?

  3. Act I : Sci TV Presentation • Collaboration with WLRN TV & M/S • Grade Five • Video lesson design • Teacher’s Edition • Thematic units designed to be completed one lesson per each nine week period • Research Results • PD Program

  4. Act II: Sci TV History • Grant awarded to WLRN to develop television shows based on the Competency Based Curriculum • Phase I: Developed Social Studies series for auditorium sized classes • Phase 2:Developed Science series for elementary grade five

  5. Act III: Sci TV Curriculum Design • Grade Five • Selected as the last grade on the elementary level • Some preparation and exposure to science material prior to entering the middle school • Content driven with curriculum connections to other subject areas

  6. Act III: Sci TV Curriculum Design • Teacher’s Edition • 14 lessons • Every lesson includes a data table and graphing activity • Theme extensions • Possible field trips • All materials are easy to find • Includes alternative and authentic assessments , including rubrics • Cooperative Learning group rating forms • Lab Team Response Form • Incentives • At Home Science Connections • Bibliography for teachers, students and media specialists

  7. Act IV: Sci TV Units • Four Thematic Units • Based in the four clusters: Nature of Science as Inquiry. Physical & Chemical Sciences, Life and Environmental Sciences and Scientific Thinking

  8. Act IV: Sci TV Units • Four Thematic Units include: • (Average time to complete one lesson was two weeks) • Physical and Chemical Sciences • Shoot for the Moon (Rocketry)* • Wild Blue Yonder ( Bernoulli's Principles)* • Kitchen Cabaret (Mixtures & Solutions)* • Energy Makes the World Go Round ( Types of Energy) • Fireworks, Whistles and Bells

  9. Act IV: Sci TV Units • Life and Environmental Sciences • Florida Atlantis (Greenhouse Effect) • Microworld Mystery (Microbes) • Let the Sunshine In (Photosynthesis, food chains and food webs) • Transport Systems (Body systems) • Habitats of the Everglades • Solutions for the Environment

  10. Act IV: Sci TV Units • Scientific Thinking • Wild Blue Yonder • Florida Atlantis • Discover the Key

  11. Act V: PD Design • Pilot with 10 schools (1 teacher per school) • Beta I: High needs schools (36 schools all grade 5 teachers) 1 year • Added other Beta groups by school choice • Structure-5 day summer institute followed by intro and review sessions quarterly • Received 60 Master Plan Points • Trainer of Trainer Model

  12. Act VI: Sci TV Research • 1997 findings by Dr. Yuwadee Wongbudhit review of student improvement from pre to post test. Average improvement 85% • Schools that were Sci TV schools performed in the higher percentiles on the SAT • Teachers reported that on the FCAT field testing their students were not intimidated by the data analysis section of the mathematics and science concepts. • Teachers also reported an increase in their own content knowledge after teaching Sci TV • Sci TV teacher journals and attitudinal survey

  13. Video Overview: Lesson 15

  14. Video : Lesson 5 Teacher’s Section

  15. Act IV: Sci TV Units • Earth and Space Sciences • Puddingtonics • The Motion of the Ocean

  16. Video: Lesson 10 UM Virtual field trip

  17. Video: Lesson 10 beginning

  18. Sci TV Video: Students to the End Lesson 4

  19. It’s a wrap. I want my Sci TV • 14 video lessons designed to meet the fourteen grade five competencies, later aligned to national and SSS • Classical music to prevent dating and stimulate the brain • Four segments in a story format with an introduction to the inquiry, background information including virtual field trips, inquiry activity and authentic, real world project • Characters students can relate to: Dr. Clueless, field scientists, fellow students, character experts in their areas, COSMO the puppet (vocabulary and operational definitions) • “Sesame Street” style ( variety of mediums) • Each lesson is a story journey that leads to a life journey • Makes teachers comfortable with science

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