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3D Learning and Sensemaking

Professional Learning Units

 

3D Learning and Sensemaking PLUs

2-3 Credit Hours

Professional Learning Unit

Scientist Circles: Fostering Student Participation and Collaboration in Class Discussions

Moving students into a circle so they can see and speak directly to each other can transform a quiet classroom into a collaborative discussion space!...

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Creating Class Consensus Models to Support Student Sensemaking

Gain experience and strategies in using the wealth of your students’ ideas to collaboratively build consensus models for complex phenomena....

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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...

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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...

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