Week B: Teacher As Scholar—INDIVIDUAL

Earth Sphere Scholar Goal & Rubric (Weeks 5,8,11,14)

Goals: To ask questions about the sphere you are studying and to answer those questions, as well as those of your teammates, as a way to increase your Earth system science knowledge.

Assignment: During Week B: Teacher As Scholar you will expand your personal content knowledge of the sphere. What do you want to know about this sphere? What are your burning questions? What do you think your students' ideas are? What do you need to know more about to help them extend their own thinking? Push yourself to ask at least five questions so that you go beyond your current thinking. The more questions you ask, the more different kinds of questions or categories your questions will fall into. This will also stretch your thinking into new areas.

In science, asking questions is as important as answering them. This week is the time to extend your own knowledge about the spheres that make up the Earth system. You will also expand the context and apply some of the ideas you already have.

Begin this week by asking your own questions in the Teacher As Scholar space. Think about what confuses your students too - their misconceptions and naive questions. Look for answers to your questions and those of your teammates in the readings, resources and websites, as well as doing your own research. Together you are creating a resource you all can use when you are developing lessons for each sphere.

When most of your questions are answered, turn to the essential questions and formulate answers to those. These were developed by scientists and science educators as a core list of ideas about each sphere in relationship to Earth system science.

Remember to contribute to the Teacher as Scholar Discussion.

Submit your individual questions and answers for a grade to your Portfolio in the Classroom and rate it using the rubric below.

Rubric
You and your facilitator will use the rubric below to gauge your success in asking and answering questions about the sphere.

Questions: Thoughtful questions about the sphere in the context of Earth system science.
4 Rating:
Researchable, clearly asked, show awareness of confusing points or missing information. Are about the sphere in an ESS context.		 3 Rating:
Clearly stated, both factual and theoretical.		 2 Rating:
Clearly stated. 		1 Rating:
Asked at least five questions.
Answers: Accurate, supportable explanations from multiple sources.
4 Rating:
Accurate explanations are supported with citations, logic, and scientific thinking from multiple sources.		 3 Rating:
Explanations are accurate and supported from resources.		 2 Rating:
Reliable sources quoted as answers.		 1 Rating:
Answered all the questions.

[ Back ]

[ Welcome ] [Earth's Spheres ] [ Earth System Science ] [ Participation ]
[ Assessment Overview ] [ Course Sections ]

[ Home ] [ Guide ] [ Outline ] [ Classroom ]

 		 


 

 

HTML by Chris Kreger
Maintained by ESSC Team