Participation
Throughout this
16-week course, you will work individually and in teams. Depending
on the number of people enrolled,
teams will consist of four to six participants.
You will be expected to contribute to online discussion sessions
"asynchronously." That is, you will be able to log on to
the Internet and post your thoughts to the
virtual classroom spaces as your individual schedules permit but within specific activity deadlines. Team
discussions will revolve around Earth systems science, Problem-Based Learning, and
teaching practices. As individuals and as teams, you
will submit your best thinking from these discussions
to your digital portfolio. The course will be moderated
by a facilitator. Additional support from an Earth scientist
will be provided as the course progresses.
After
the first three weeks, this course is structured in four,
three-week cycles. You will study a new scenario (Week 4--coral
reefs, Week 7--tropical forests, Week 10--ozone, Week 13--global
change) in each of the four cycles. As a participant in this
course, you will play a different role during each week of
the cycle.
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Week
A:
Teacher as Problem Solver
Weeks
4, 7, 10, 13
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Individual: Identify what you believe to
be true and the reasons for why you have those beliefs
regarding the event.
Team: Build ESS knowledge as a team about the event described
in the scenario, and develop a problem
statement.
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Week
B:
Teacher as Model
Builder
Weeks
5, 8, 11, 14
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Team: Use your team's original or revised
problem statement to build an ESS model which includes the
ESS relationship statement and evidence that supports your conclusions (recommendations
or solutions).
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Week
C:
Teacher as Designer
Weeks
6, 9, 12, 15
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Individual: Use what you have learned
about PBL lessons from the student perspective to design a PBL
lesson for your students.
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In the last week of the course, you will complete
an individual final project (see the
Final Project Rubric.) All assignments are
expected to be submitted by the posted deadlines. Instructions
for the activities and rubrics, as well as the deadlines,
can be accessed from Outline Weeks 4-16.
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