Snow Pit Science
Greenland 2022
Snow Pit Science
Eternal Verities
Nobody learns more than the teacher teaching the class for the first time.
Develop skills needed to do snow pit science with your students.
Plan, conduct and present data/conclusion from a snowpit investigation.
Photos to Lars of your own students doing snow pit investigations.
(Today’s assessment will be a presentation.)
To be developed by you.
Backward Design
Planning
Teaching
I notice, I wonder, I think
Objective
Assessment
Learning
Experience
Inquiry
Question
Hook
Develop skills needed to do snow pit science with your students.
Plan, conduct and present data/conclusion from a snow pit investigation.
To be developed by you.
Backward Design
Planning
Teaching
I notice, I wonder, I think
Objective
Assessment
Learning
Experience
Inquiry
Question
Hook
Photos to Lars of your own students doing snow pit investigations.
(Today’s assessment will be a presentation.)
IBSE: “Enthusiasm and curiosity ..., which have a major impact on students' motivation to engage in science in a way that allows them to acquire knowledge”
IBSE: “Pupils can construct (for them) new knowledge by exploring or investigating a problem or question.”
IBSE: Empirical competence (observation and description, experimentation, classification, manual skills, data collection and processing, assessment of uncertainty and appropriateness, criticizing methods.)
“Learning is a performance” Howard Gardner
Today’s Investigations
Your classroom teaching
Digging and exploring
our own pit.
Table of Contents
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3-7-22 | Snow Pit Science-Lars | |
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Left Side
Presentation Notes
Title
Right Side
Classroom Ideas/Creative Side
Ideas, reflections, action items.
Snow Pit Science-Lars
3-7-22
What are they doing?
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IBSE: “Enthusiasm and curiosity ..., which have a major impact on students' motivation to engage in science in a way that allows them to acquire knowledge”
Digging and exploring our own snow pit.
Ideas, reflections, action items.
Snow Pit Science Lars
3/7/22
I notice
I wonder
Digging and exploring our own snow pit.
Ideas, reflections, action items.
Snow Pit Science Lars
3/7/22
I notice
I wonder
Processing: Share/expand your lists
Variables we could use to compare…
Variables that we could analyze to see how they respond…
(related to the snow pit)
Independent or
Manipulated Variables
Dependent or
Responding Variables
Wheel of Inquiry
How does the . . .
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How does the
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How does the . . .
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How does the . . .
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affect the . . .
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affect the . . .
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affect the . . .
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affect the . . .
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Modified Wheel of Inquiry
How does the . . .
Temperature change
How does the . . .
Type of snow crystals change
How does the . . .
Density change
How does the . . .
SWE change
As you go down
the layers
of the snow pit?
Wheel of Inquiry
How does the . . .
Temperature change
How does the . . .
Type of snow crystals change
How does the . . .
Density change
How does the . . .
SWE change
As you go down
the layers
of the snow pit
Today’s Investigation
Investigation Question:
Data
Graph
The data suggest…
Evidence that supports this is…
Longitudinal Studies: How does the snow pit compare each year on March 7?
Wall “Art”