| Schedule for STEM CONNECTIONS Summer Institute 2004 | Revised | 06-Jul | |||||||
| Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Mon | Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | |
| 06-Jul | 07-Jul | 08-Jul | 09-Jul | 12-Jul | 13-Jul | 14-Jul | 15-Jul | 16-Jul | |
| 8:30 | Coffee | Coffee,streams | Coffee,streams | Coffee,streams | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee |
| 9:00 | 1. Intro | 4. Personal web site | 6. Watershed | 8. Global warming | 10. Envir. Panel | 13. Research selection | 16. Personal Research | 19.Personal Research | 21. Update pers web site |
| 11. Frameworks | 14. About personal res | 22. Evaluation | |||||||
| 12:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | ||||
| 12:30 | 2. Project I | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | |||||
| 1:00 | 5. Arsenic | 7. Growth and Development | 9. Birds, mammals | 12. Intro to Powerpoint, group reports on project 2 | 15. Personal Research | 17. Collaboration workshop | 20. Personal Research | ||
| 3 | 3. Project 2, streams | or Managing Digital Images | Wrapup/ Journals | 18. Project Evaluation | Wrapup/ Journals | ||||
| 4:30 -5:00 | Wrapup/ Journals | Wrapup/ Journals | Wrapup/ Journals | Wrapup/ Journals | |||||
| Lunch will be served at 12 on the first day and at 12:30 otherwise. If you have specific food needs, contact Sharon Palmer. | |||||||||
| 1. Welcome, community web, community building activities | |||||||||
| 2. One session inquiry project | |||||||||
| 3. Multi-day inquiry project (streams) | |||||||||
| 4. Personal home page - part of getting people to know each other | |||||||||
| 5. Inquiry project 1, The Arsenic Project | |||||||||
| 6. Inquiry project 2, Watersheds | |||||||||
| 7. Inquiry project 3, Growth and Development | |||||||||
| 8. Inquiry project 4, Global Warming | |||||||||
| 9. Inquiry project 5, Bird Biology | |||||||||
| 10. Community Environmental Panel | |||||||||
| 11. Group activity linking research threads to frameworks, curriculum, MCAS, school resources | |||||||||
| 12. Powerpoint workshop or Photoshop Elements workshop on Managing Digital Images; group reports on multi-day project | |||||||||
| 13. Research teams selection: informal conversation followed by teachers making their own assisgments | |||||||||
| 14. What's involved in the personal research project | |||||||||
| 15-16, 19-20. Research teams do additional activities, start personal research | |||||||||
| 17. Building collaborations and relationships | |||||||||
| 18. STEM Connection Project Evaluation findings | |||||||||
| 21. Update personal web site with personal research plan | |||||||||
| 22. Evaluation | |||||||||