Day+4+August+19

= Day 4: August 19 =

**Opening Activities**   **Common Assessments and PLC Process**
 * Agenda for Day 4 [[file:CEMSS_PD_Day_4_-_Agenda.doc]]
 * Common Assessment Task [[file:Mapping Assessment Plan.doc]]

=**Science**=


 * Lab Safety and Scientific Method Resources
 *  Life Science Activities
 * Create a Kid Activity [[file:Create-A-Kid.modifiedonebaby.doc]]
 * Nature of Science and Scientific Inquiry Activity [[file:Nature_of_Science_and_Scientific_Inquiry.doc]]
 * Science-on-the-Fly Contents of Bags and Activities with Pictures [[file:Science on the fly bags.doc]]
 * [|Project 2061]
 * [|National Science Teachers Association]
 * "Nature of Science and Scientific Inquiry". 2008. California Journal of Science Education. Vol VIII (2). Spring 2008.
 * Cavallo, Ann. 2008. "Experiencing the Nature of Science: An Interactive, Beginning-of-Semester Activity." Journal of College Science Teaching. May/June 2008.
 * Hughes, Ron. 1995. "Enhancing Understanding Through Discrepant Events" CSTA Journal. Spring 1995.
 * Physical Science Activities
 *   Agenda [[file:NSFCEMSSAgenda081908.doc]]
 *  Presentation [[file:NSFCEMSS_Workshop081908.ppt]]
 *  Pre/Post Assessment of Student Understanding of Physical and Chemical Change [[file:PreTstPhysChemChng.doc]]
 * Attitude Inventory [[file:SAI_II_Attitude_Survey.doc]]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #030202; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Chemical Equivalents [[file:CommercialChemicalEquivalents.doc]]
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #030202; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #030202; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> CheMystery Activity Materials [[file:Chemistry_Activity.doc]][[file:DataTable.doc]]  [[file:Participant_Instructions.doc]] [[file:AwardCertificate_NSFCEMSS2008.doc]]
 * Safe Science Series (NSELA) [[file:NSELA_SafetyClassSize.pdf]]
 * America's Lab Report (NASBOSE)
 * Open Questions in Science Classrooms (Anderson and Helms) [[file:AndersonHelms_Ed478718_OpenQuesSCED2002.doc]]
 * Fact, Law, and Theory: Ways of Thinking in Science and Literature (Rhodes and Schaible)
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 * Additional Resources **
 * **Genetics**
 * [|**Designer Genes: One Size Fits All?**]: In this life science unit, student genetics experts help farmers in a blight-stricken region of Mexico decide whether to use genetically engineered corn. (Intel Education)
 * [|NOVA scienceNOW: RNAi:] Review what takes place during protein synthesis, learn how RNAi was discovered and examine how RNAi silences a gene. Watch the related video online. (NOVA)
 * <span class="resource_title">__ The Gene Hunters: DNA - A Double Helix Model __ Explore the building blocks of DNA by constructing a model of the DNA double helix, assembling the nucleotides in the proper order. Review entire set of resources for [|The Gene Hunters.] (Scientific American Frontiers)
 * [|Flowers and Plants:] In this lesson, students will look carefully at flowering plants. They will study basic Mendellian heredity in the light of flowering plants and they will learn how seed savers work to save diversity. Finally, they will compare scenarios in which genetically diverse fields and fields planted with GMOs undergo various natural challenges. (American Field Guide)
 * See additional resources at [|PBS Teachers: Genetics, 6-8.]
 * [|Gizmos for Genetics] (Explore Learning)
 * [|Dogbreeding Game] (Dragonfly TV)
 * [|DNA]: In this Web site, students learn how DNA was discovered and how it functions; how the ability to study whole genomes has revolutionized the study of DNA; and how this information gives scientists the means to manipulate DNA, enabling the discovery and production of new drugs and better food -- and creating new and unexpected controversies over how this technology will shape our lives and our future. (Science Interactives)
 * **Nature of Science/Scientific Method**
 * [|PBS Teachers: Scientific Inquiry, 6-8]
 * [|PBS Teachers: Scientific Inquiry, 6-8]