VFEs & supporting materials:

The NSTA VFE PowerPoint (click this heading)

This is a large file — it includes the PowerPoint used in the NSTA session plus slides from a session at the Geological Society of America Conference in the fall of 2006.

A quick VFE Template in PowerPoint (click this heading)

This PowerPoint includes information on embedding pictures within pictures and on how to create panoramas using Photoshop Elements. It is designed so that individuals can replace the March 2007 photographs included (of the abandon quarry at Colgate University) with their own photographs. A different VFE of the same quarry is described in the VFE vignette. The vignette links to photos of the quarry in the summer of 2005.

Dettbarn Akron Falls:

• Akron Falls VFE PowerPoint
• Akron Falls Worksheet (.doc )

Miller Norwich support materials:

• This VFE is not included on the CD. The VFE is web-based and found here: http://www.allnetnetworking.net/earths/vft.htm. Print the student packet to help guide your way.
  
• Student Packet
• Norwich Topographic Map (excerpt)
• Generic Field Entries

Spanneut Chapman Creek:

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• Chapman Creek Keynote (large file — not uploaded to server)
• Chapman Creek Worksheet
• Chapman Creek Images (multiple files — not uploaded to server)The NSTA VFE PowerPointThe NSTA VFE PowerPoint

Weisberger Sands Around the World

These files accompany a Google Earth File that the server is unable to serve. Contact Don or Bethany for the file. These files are a late addition — they are not on March 24th Workshop CD.

• Sand Tour Directions
• Sand Tour Lab (large MS Word file)
  

Google Earth Tour Connecting VFEs

WordPress (the blog server) does not serve Google Earth files. You’ll need to come to the workshop to get this file!

How People Learn Materials:

• How People Learn key findings (link to page within National Academy Press website)
• How Students Learn (download the pdf summary) (link to page within National Academy Press website)
• Miller Inquiry Matrix
• Lab Grid
• Earth Science Big Ideas (Draft will be distributed on CD)
• Look at Your Fish! Scudder Essay

Meeting Materials – handouts or links to them.

• March 24 ReaL Workshop Agenda at Colgate University (pdf)
• NSTA 2007 Workshop Agenda & selected handouts packet (doc)
• Two Complementary Views of Quality Professional Development
• VFE Vignette
• Learning & Inquiry Cycles Excerpts from Teaching Science for Motivation (from Charles “Andy” Anderson’s website)
• Five Principles for Teaching Science for Motivation and Understanding (from Charles “Andy” Anderson’s website)