3D Learning and Sensemaking
Professional Learning Units
3D Learning and Sensemaking PLUs
2-3 Credit Hours
Professional Learning Unit
Analyzing and Interpreting Data to Support Student Sensemaking in a High School Evolution Unit
This Professional Learning Unit uses a storyline unit with an anchoring phenomenon that is a case study in which the patient has acute mountain sickness at Everest base camp to focus participant learning on how the Science and Engineering Practice An...
Professional Learning Unit
Using the Putting the Pieces Together Instructional Routine
In this module, educators will be introduced to the four elements of the Putting the Pieces Together (PT2) Instructional Routine. In the Putting the Pieces Together Instructional Routine, students synthesize ideas they develop across multiple lessons...
Professional Learning Unit
Engaging Students in Science Learning: A Productive Approach to Classroom Management
In this module, participants consider the relationship between fostering student engagement through tapping into their curiosity and positive behavior choices in the classroom. Participants explore two different ways of implementing the same lesson a...
Professional Learning Unit
Leading the Implementation of High Quality Instructional Materials to Enact Standards
High-quality instructional materials (HQIM) designed for next generation science can make a difference in the quality of equitable science teaching and learning throughout the educational system and for all learners (i.e., for all leaders, teachers, ...