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Science Grades 9-12

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Agenda- STSE’s

• Purpose of the STSE’s

• Teaching using the STSE’s

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Learning Goals

Participants will:

• Create a STSE deconstruction map

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Development of STSE’s

• “Students are presented with a specific practical, real, or hypothetical problem (or set of problems) to solve.”

• “Problems are defined as having no specific correct solution, requiring knowledge construction on the part of the students, and requiring sustained attention beyond a single lesson.”

• Problems as Possibilities: Problem-Based Learning for K-16 Education; ASCD

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Purpose of STSE’s• Engage students in examining a variety of current

world issues.• Ground scientific knowledge in the realities of these

issues.• Enable students to develop a deep understanding of

the connections between science, technology, society and the environment.

• Develop students’ abilities to make informed decisions, and to take responsible action to address issues arising from the impact of science and technology on the environment and in their daily lives

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STSE’s Are Designed to

• Set the context for learning for each grade level and subject

• Apply previously acquired knowledge and skills

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Structure of the STSE’s

Specific Expectation

Broad Areas of Skills Links

Sample Issues

Sample Questions

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What to do with STSE’sDays Events

Day 1 Set the context using the STSE.

Pose a question or issue to answer

Days 2-10

Build and acquire the knowledge and skills to help answer the question or issue

Develop a portfolio, journal, notebook as information to answer question or issue

Day 12

Culminating activity

Answer the question or issue based on knowledge and skills gather throughout the “unit”

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Deconstructed STSE• Relating Science to Technology, Society and the

Environment• D1.2 assess, on the basis of research, the

effectiveness of some current individual, regional, national, or international initiatives that address the issues of climate change (e.g., Drive Clean, ENERGY STAR, federal and provincial government rebates for retrofitting older buildings to be more energy efficient, carbon offset programs, community tree-planting programs, municipal recycling programs, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC]), and propose a further course of action related to one of these initiatives [PR, AI, C]

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researchpropose actions

Deconstruction Template

STSE

Initiative information

Science Technolog

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Issues of climate change

EnvironmentEffectiveness of initiatives

Society

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Deconstructing STSE’s

• In your subject group pick any overall or a specific STSE expectation

• Using the deconstructing template, place the expectation in the middle and brainstorm the different parts of the expectation.