Getting students to think beyond "what I need to know for the test" is important in the Michigan Science Standards. In this session we will take Performance Expectations and look at how anchoring your science units in real-world phenomena and then using investigative phenomena to develop lessons can help your classroom become more 3-Dimensional in practice, get your students to think more like scientists and use claim, evidence and reasoning to develop concepts and skills.
Creating models related to ecology NGSS performance expectations
PreK-12 Science Education Prep and Learning Theory
Grassland bird conservation, monitoring and management