Workshop CD Contents
Do you want our workshop materials? You’ll find them here as either direct downloads or outside links.
Workshop Materials
Draft Agenda for STANYS 2007 Virtual FieldworkWorkshop
Background materials on how people learn (and teach):
Anderson’s Five Principles for Teaching Science for Motivation and Understanding This is an excerpt from a longer document found on Andy Anderson’s web site.
From the National Research Council’s Committee on How People Learn:
How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom (2005) Chapter 1 of this book is available as a free download and is an excellent introduction to the research base on how students learn.
How People Learn: Bridging Research & Practice (1999) The full text of this book is available online. It’s briefer and more general than the above text and may be a better place to start if you don’t have time to read the longer chapter above. Chapter 2 identifies the key findings of this research.
Also see the Learning Links page of the Facilitate Wonder Blog (a different page within this very site).
Virtual Fieldwork Examples:
Virtual Fieldwork Google Earth Tour. This Google Earth Tour connects several VFEs made for the project. It also includes some brief “how tos” for doing things in Google Earth like adding geologic map overlays.
VFE Vignette. This short story in the form of the vignettes in The National Science Education Standards.
The Mother of All VFEs. This very short essay is intended to highlight that VFEs can be meaningful science — not merely a simulation.
ReaL VFEs (in alphabetical order by author):
Melisa Dettbarn’s Akron Falls VFE
Akron Falls VFE PowerPoint (5.7 MB)
Akron Falls VFE MS Word Handout
Sarah Miller’s Norwich VFE
This VFE is web based. See Ms. Miller’s VFE Website to begin. Relevant handouts are linked below.
Generic Field Entries Sheet MS Word Handout
Topographic Map of Norwich MS Word Handout
Going on Your VFE MS Word Handout
Jud Spanneut (et al) Chapman Creek VFE
Chapman Creek VFE Low Resolution Auto Play
Mr. Spanneut’s VFE was created using Apple’s Keynote Software. It is posted here as a Quicktime movie, formatted for the web. For those attending the workshop, it will be included on the CD as a Keynote presentation and as a large, higher resolution Interactive Quicktime movie. Unfortunately, the interactive features were only working intermittently when I had it posted to this site. I have saved it as a movie that plays straight through.
School Technology Newsletter Article on Chapman Creek VFE
The CD will also include the different images used in making the presentation.
