Understanding Science
Each Making Sense of SCIENCE™ professional development course is supported by a Teacher Book and Facilitation Guide. The Teacher Book contains five core sessions, each a full day of collaborative learning, along with a Looking At Student Work™ follow-up guide to support teachers' analysis of their own students' work throughout the school year. For example, the structure of the Teacher book for Force & Motion is as follows:
Core Sessions Motion
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Looking at Student Work™ Mental Models
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Download the Introduction to the Force & Motion Teacher Book
(PDF, 1 MB)
The Facilitator Guide provides detailed yet flexible procedures, in-depth background information, guiding questions and charts to use during group discussions, and other insights for successfully leading each Making Sense of SCIENCE course.
“The professional development courses are top notch, and the content they describe is wonderfully compact. When you consider the complexity of the core ideas, 5 six-hour sessions on force and motion is nothing!”
–Academy participant