Focus on Energy: Professional Learning Resources

Professional Learning Resources

Videos

Energy Workshop Introduction

Video Montage

Video Case - Using Energy Cubes to Reason About Energy Forms and Flows

Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility

Source to Switch Video from Puget Sound Energy

Classroom Discussion Videos

Elicitation Discussion: Motion Energy, Investigation 1

Elicitation Discussion: Electrical Energy, Investigation 3

Make Meaning Discussion: Motion Energy, Investigation 4

Readings

A Teaching Framework to Reflect a New Vision

Eliciting Ideas and Listening to Children

Energy Cube Rules

Using Sketches to Document Energy Cube Movement

Energy Theater Rules

Creating and Using a Model of Energy

Looking Through the Energy Lens
(Science and Children, February, 2015)

Engaging Students in Scientific Practices: What does constructing and revising models look like in the science classroom?
Understanding A Framework for K−12 Science Education

Engaging Students in the Scientific Practices of Explanation and Argumentation
Understanding A Framework for K–12 Science Education

The Child and the Scientist (from The Inquiry Project)

The Child: The Challenges of Developing Explanations Based on Data and Reasoning

The Scientist: What's important about reasoning and evidence?

Representing Energy Website

The site provides resources to support learners in co-constructing a flexible, interdisciplinary, energy model through the process of representing the "energy story" of diverse, real-world, scenarios.