UtSTA 2024: Out-Of-This-World Science Teaching

This presentation delves into a SEEd storyline lesson sequence where students take charge of their learning through model-based and student-designed investigations around a homemade electric speaker. Participants will make their own electric speaker to investigate and take home. Participants will also learn how to guide students across a storyline that bridges the electromagnetism and waves strands in a natural way. This will be accomplished through students developing cause-and-effect models based on the speaker phenomenon, designing and carrying out experiments, using evidence to refine models, and collaborating to build a class consensus model. All attendees will receive a detailed instructional guide to know how various ambitious science teaching strategies and science practices are sequenced for this unit.