Exploring Climate Science with Virtual Reality
Exploring Climate Science With Virtual Reality: Teacher Scientist Experience and Classroom Connections
Exploring Climate Science with Virtual Reality brought high school teachers together with Climate Scientists and Virtual Reality Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to engage in 1) an adult immersion learning experience with climate scientists exploring temperature phenomena and to understand the chemistry and electromagnetic radiation connections to climate and ways PNNL studies climate and weather,
2) grounding in the dimensions of the Next Generation Science Standards,
3) understanding and using Laboratory Record Books in similar ways to working scientists and engineers
4) beginning to develop a relevant place-based phenomena for their students
Considering Norms for Collaborative Work
Teachers read and discuss Norms of Collaboration and Congenial versus Collegial Discourse which will guide our collaborative behaviors throughout the course of Exploring Climate Science with Virtual Reality.
Thinking Collaborative Norms of Collaboration
Laboratory Record Books
Teachers learn about the use of the Laboratory Record Book at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, including how STEM professionals enter and annotate their observations and data.
Adult Learning Experience with Climate Scientists
Climate scientists provide teachers with field experiences using infrared thermometers and with classroom based learning opportunities around electromagnetic radiation, energy budgets, albedo, and how meteorological equipment is used to gather and provide data
Dimensions of the NGSS
Teachers examine the Science and Engineering Practices and the Crosscutting Concepts for their high school grade band and find examples that illustrate those SEPs and CCs.
NSTA Science and Engineering Practices Matrix
Ambitious Science Teaching classroom video to look for Science and Engineering Practices
NSTA Crosscutting Concepts Matrix
How Whales Change Climate from Sustainable Human
Thinking About Phenomena
Teachers view a phenomena video and learn more about how academically productive phenomena is vital to NGSS teaching and learning.
Deer Migration from Phenomena for NGSS
Disciplinary Core Ideas for Adult Immersion Learning Experience
Teachers examine Disciplinary Core Ideas Matrix focusing on the Earth Science DCIs that relate to their learning. They reflect on which DCIs they perceive to have been addressed in the three days of work with climate scientists.
NSTA Disciplinary Core Ideas Matrix
