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Webinar

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Recording from October session in Session 2 folder.

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Wendy: Podcast episode on STEM Identity 

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Wendy: Podcast episode on STEM Identity 

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Our students are the problem solvers of the future! Unfortunately, by 3rd grade 50% of kids have already decided if they are confident STEM learners or not. Let's disrupt this trend by creating learning experiences that shift mindsets from, "I don't like..." or "I've never been very good at..." to productive and positive STEM identities that foster joy, curiosity, and understanding of STEM related content. Listen in as Wendy Ward Hoffer shares the what, why and how of cultivating productive teacher and student STEM identities on the Phenomenal Teaching Podcast. Wendy and Michelle Morris Jones discuss the connections between STEM education and equity, health, and authentic problem solving. Wendy shares specific ways for teachers to increase their own efficacy so they may feel more confident and excited to support creative problem solving in their science and math classrooms. In addition, Wendy offers examples of life-worthy science and math experiences rooted in problem solving, reflection, academic language, and authenticity. This episode connects to the Planning and Community strands of the PEBC Teaching Framework.

Wendy is the author of the new Phenomenal Teaching, as well as Cultivating STEM Identities, Minds on Mathematics and Science as Thinking, all published by Heinemann. She is also the author of NCTM's Developing Literate Mathematicians. Wendy serves as Senior Director of Content Development and Publications for the Denver-based Public Education and Business Coalition (PEBC) and travels nationally to provide professional learning to teachers at all levels. Wendy is passionate about promoting rich thinking in all content areas, especially math and science. She is the co-facilitator of our upcoming Science Institute.

The "Phenomenal Teaching Podcast" is brought to you by Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC) and is intended to elevate the strands of the PEBC Teaching Framework illustrated in Wendy Ward Hoffer's book, Phenomenal Teaching. Thank you for joining us this season as we strive to share the stories of educators who are making schools and classrooms more phenomenal than ever before by implementing community, planning, workshop, thinking strategies, discourse, and assessment strategies that promote agency, equity, and understanding.

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Cultivating STEM Identity with Creative Problem Solving featuring Wendy Ward Hoffer - PEBC

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Our students are the problem solvers of the future! Unfortunately, by 3rd grade 50% of kids have already decided if they are confident STEM learners or not. Let's disrupt this trend by creating...

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Science and Teaching for Field Instructors

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BEETLES: Infusing outdoor science programs with research-based approaches and tools to improve science teaching and learning.

Our professional learning resources are designed for program leaders to use with field instructors. They provide experiences and rationale about outdoor science instruction designed to inspire instructors to improve their teaching. Our student activities inspire students' wonder and curiosity about the natural world, support their innate tendencies for exploration and guide them to make explanations based on evidence.

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Science and Teaching for Field Instructors Student-Centered ♦ Nature-Centered For a slightly longer introduction to BEETLES, watch the 7-minute video. Our professional learning resources are designed for program leaders to use with field instructors. They provide experiences and rationale about outdoor science instruction designed to inspire instructors to improve their teaching.

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Learning Channel:  Hypothesis &  Observation

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Learning Channel:  Hypothesis &  Observation

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Discussion and Supporting Materials

Thought starters

1. How does Ms. Jaboneta allow students to lead the direction of this lesson?

2. What is Ms. Jaboneta's role in the small group exploration?

3. How does Ms. Jaboneta encourage students to use evidence when testing their hypotheses?

Teachers

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Nadia Jaboneta has her pre-K students make hypotheses about bugs and test their hypotheses in small groups. Nadia begins by having students share their previous observations about bugs and guides them to construct hypotheses. In small groups, students test these hypotheses and use evidence to support their reasoning.

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Due 10/31--info on the garden lesson you are choosing to do

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Food related lessons and activities by Rachel Waugh, rachel@museumoffoodandculture.org

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School Garden Produce Lesson Guides (Public)

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It's the season for pumpkin books, pumpkin STEM activities, and pumpkin science experiments! One of the things I love the most about fall besides the cider and pumpkin muffins is bringing out all our fun pumpkin science and STEM books! Favorite pumpkin books pair perfectly with fun fall activities. Check out these early elementary and preschool pumpkin books and science activities that young kids will have so much fun trying!

PUMPKIN BOOKS AND STEM ACTIVITIES FOR FALL

Below you will find some fun ideas for STEM activities to pair with your favorite pumpkin book. We have listed simple pumpkin activities that you can easily do at home or with a group of kids.

There are lots of ways to incorporate STEM projects or Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math skills with a preschool literacy activity. These simple pumpkin STEM challenges below will get kids thinking and doing STEM this fall!

7 PUMPKIN BOOKS TO READ
Looking for easy to print activities, and inexpensive problem-based challenges? We have you covered...
Book: Roll along with the pumpkins and their spooky friends as they get into some spirited Halloween fun. Has fun rhyming verses!

Project: Can you make a fence for your 5 little pumpkins? Check out our Five Little Pumpkins STEM Challenge!

2. The Legend of Spookley The Square Pumpkin

Book: One day in the pumpkin patch the strangest little pumpkin hatched... Spookley the Pumpkin was different. All the other pumpkins teased him until Spookley proved that being different can save the day!

Project: How can you design and build a square pumpkin-like Spookley? Check out our LEGO Spookley and Friends activity.

3. How Many Seeds In A Pumpkin?

Book: Mr. Tiffin and his students explore skip counting and estimation in a fun pumpkin-themed classroom experiment!

Project: Clean out a pumpkin and dry the pumpkin seeds. Put the pumpkin seeds in a jar and practice your estimation skills or count them all.

Clean out two different size pumpkins and see if they have more or fewer seeds. Do different pumpkin varieties have different amounts of seeds?

Make a batch of pumpkin playdough and combine sensory play with simple counting activities.

4. How Big Could Your Pumpkin Grow?

Book: Every year, giant pumpkin contests take place at fairs across the country. But what's next? Why not think really big? Award-winning artist Wendell Minor does just that as he imagines larger-than-life pumpkins decorating some of America's favorite places-as immense as the Capitol dome, Mount Rushmore, the Brooklyn Bridge, even the Grand Canyon!

Project: Measure pumpkins at the pumpkin patch. Bring a soft tape measure or a piece of string and a regular tape measure to measure the diameter of different size pumpkins. Learn a little bit about diameter and radius too!

Try these simple pumpkin activities for preschoolers to learn more about how a pumpkin grows.

Try these Pumpkin Math Activities with free pumpkin worksheets.

Set up a Pumpkin Investigation Tray to explore parts of a pumpkin.

Create a Pumpkin Squish Bag for some non-messy pumpkin investigation.

5. The Roll Away Pumpkin

Book: On a windy autumn day, Marla Little comes running down the hill, yelling, "Help! My giant pumpkin is rolling away! Onward it goes, rolling and turning, with no sign of stopping!

Project: Try rolling pumpkins and set up your own pumpkin races using ramps to explore physics.

Check out our apple version too!

6. Pumpkin Jack

Book: The first pumpkin Tim ever carved was fierce and funny, and he named it Jack. When Halloween was over and the pumpkin was beginning to rot, Tim set it out in the garden and throughout the weeks he watched it change.

Project: Make your own Pumpkin Jack! Carve a pumpkin and let it rot. Investigate what happens!

7. 10 Orange Pumpkins

Book: From a sneaky spider to a ghostly chef to a sly mummy and crafty witch, join your favorite spooky creatures as ten orange pumpkins disappear in a countdown to a Halloween surprise.

Project: Stack pumpkins 10 tall! What can you use for pumpkins? Mini pumpkins, cut up pool noodles, bottle caps? Make your own pumpkins and practice counting skills. Check out our apple stacking activity!

Use a classic pumpkin candy or chunks of pumpkin with toothpicks to build structures.

FUN PUMPKIN BOOKS AND STEM ACTIVITIES FOR FALL
Click on the photo below or on the link for fun pumpkin science experiments for kids! Looking for easy to print activities, and inexpensive problem-based challenges? We have you covered...

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Pumpkin Books & Activities for Fall STEM - Little Bins for Little Hands

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It's the season for pumpkin books, pumpkin STEM activities, and pumpkin science experiments! One of the things I love the most about fall besides the cider and pumpkin muffins is bringing out all our fun pumpkin science and STEM books! Favorite pumpkin books pair perfectly with fun fall activities.

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