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Session B-1: Teaching Russian Political History: From Czars To General Secretaries To Oligarchs, Diane Haleas Hines
Session B-1: Teaching Russian Political History: From Czars To General Secretaries To Oligarchs, Diane Haleas Hines
Professional Learning Day
Participants in this session will be offered ways to teach Russian history that makes connections between historical experience and political culture (values, attitudes, beliefs, and expectations that citizens hold about their political system). This political culture has directly impacted current politics in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union and helps to explain current developments in Russian politics, both domestic and international. The session will incorporate background information as well as lesson activities for the classroom.
Session B-2: Much Ado About Trousers: Exploring Intercultural Contact Through Artifacts, Kitty Lam
Session B-2: Much Ado About Trousers: Exploring Intercultural Contact Through Artifacts, Kitty Lam
Professional Learning Day
Material objects are fascinating sources for investigating intercultural contact in the ancient world. This session demonstrates how to use a pair of ornamental trousers excavated from Xinjiang, China to generate student discussion on the nature of cross-cultural contact in the ancient Silk Road era.
Session A-2: From Polynomial To Rational Functions: Flip!, Ruth Dover
Session A-2: From Polynomial To Rational Functions: Flip!, Ruth Dover
Professional Learning Day
Ah HA! Making the connection between polynomial functions, rational functions and using reciprocals! Join us to flip, not flop, with trig for your classroom.
Session C-3: Epidemiology, Don Dosch, Crystal Randall
Session C-3: Epidemiology, Don Dosch, Crystal Randall
Professional Learning Day
Epidemiology, the study of factors influencing the spread of communicable disease, has become a broadly discussed topic given the recent Ebola virus outbreak in western Africa. Participants in this session will work in the lab to model epidemiology and examine the results through a simple ELISA assay. We will discuss how to use data to identify original patients. Further, we will look at some in-class activities that highlight some well-established case studies in epidemiology (NGSS ESS3.A and LS2.C).
Session A-4: “Ain’T No Thing, Chicken Wing”, Carmela Minaya, Aziza Darwish, Heather Richardson
Session A-4: “Ain’T No Thing, Chicken Wing”, Carmela Minaya, Aziza Darwish, Heather Richardson
Professional Learning Day
Participating teachers will simulate a deep cut on a chicken wing and suture it using similar techniques used in emergency situations. The chicken wing anatomy will be compared to the anatomy of a human arm. The session will provide teachers with the opportunity to introduce a low cost dissection activity into the classroom in a dynamic fashion.
Session A-1: Implementing Common Core In Middle School Math, Karen Togliatti
Session A-1: Implementing Common Core In Middle School Math, Karen Togliatti
Professional Learning Day
This session will focus on implementing Common Core Middle-School Mathematics Standards using student-centered activities. Participants will receive three hands-on activities (one each at grades six, seven, and eight) to take back to their classrooms.
Session C-2: Problem-Based Mathematics: You Reap What You Sow, Nicole Ross, Lindsey Herlehy
Session C-2: Problem-Based Mathematics: You Reap What You Sow, Nicole Ross, Lindsey Herlehy
Professional Learning Day
Approach problem-based mathematics through a historical perspective! Join us to learn a fun, hands-on approach to examining the science behind crop rotation systems originally implemented during the Medieval Period. This activity requires students to mathematically evaluate the efficiency of a crop rotation system, strategically complete an integers-based crop puzzle, and evaluate crop yield and profit through data analysis. This activity integrates a variety of middle school mathematics concepts.
Session C-1: Equilibrium, Deb Scarano, Anita White
Session C-1: Equilibrium, Deb Scarano, Anita White
Professional Learning Day
Find your balance in this hands-on lab session which will allow teachers to try out several simple lab activities that will enable students to better understand equilibrium.
Session A-6: Alternative Energy, Mark Carlson, Peter Clancy
Session A-6: Alternative Energy, Mark Carlson, Peter Clancy
Professional Learning Day
We will describe how our newly-revised, month-long alternative energy unit in Engineering addresses the 4 NGSS standards. We will map the activities in our IMSA schedule to a traditional high school bell schedule. These activities address not only performance goals and the underlying scientific principles of power generation but also process skills relating to surveying technology, prioritizing criteria, and assessing societal impact. We will reflect on our first round of offering this unit and suggest modifications for future implementations.
Session A-3: Energy Conservation, Brooke Schmidt, Eric Hawker
Session A-3: Energy Conservation, Brooke Schmidt, Eric Hawker
Professional Learning Day
This session will focus on the content and different activities that you can do with your students to meet the Next Generation Physical Science Standard 3: Energy. The focus will be on definitions of energy, conservation of energy, and the relationship between energy and forces. The content is appropriate for both middle and high school science students.
Session A-3: Indian Ocean Trade Basin: Global Trading And The Consequences Of Those Encounters, George Haldaman
Session A-3: Indian Ocean Trade Basin: Global Trading And The Consequences Of Those Encounters, George Haldaman
Professional Learning Day
Using an interactive website at indianoceanhistory.org, we will examine how history can be more hands on for a time period and region students know very little about. This lesson can be used to explore and compare different time periods in history and are great for comparison and contrast as well as the continuity and change over time essays. The workshop will explore how global economies were developed and the consequences of those encounters.
Session A-1: Interpreting Cold War Origins: Past, Present, Future, Lee Eysturlid
Session A-1: Interpreting Cold War Origins: Past, Present, Future, Lee Eysturlid
Professional Learning Day
This session will enable attendees to teach the origins of the Cold War for the United States (and world) along with the evolution of American opinion on the topic. This fragmentation of historical opinion (left, right, center) will help attendees see the many possibilities of the topic. Teachers will leave ready to teach the topic.
Session E-4: Teach Students Robotics!, Pat Patankar
Session E-4: Teach Students Robotics!, Pat Patankar
Professional Learning Day
In this session, we will discuss how to introduce your students to Robotics. We will talk about the programing environment, the hardware that is required, and the resources you'll need to get your program up and running. We will discuss how to acquire them. A number of them are free - and others can be obtained by the students themselves (in fact they may already have what they'll need!).
Session E-5: Scrumptious Science, Nicole Ross, Renee Anderson
Session E-5: Scrumptious Science, Nicole Ross, Renee Anderson
Professional Learning Day
Have fun learning ways to explore science concepts through the use of food. Quick, easy "kitchen science" experiments will be utilized to highlight chemistry and biology concepts in school curricula. A focus on inquiry techniques, the active use of the scientific method, and experimental design will also be included.
Session D-2: Reconstructing The West, Jean Kadel
Session D-2: Reconstructing The West, Jean Kadel
Professional Learning Day
Why is the West left out of the Reconsruction unit? There are good reasons to include it. During the Civil War, the West was organized for statehood. The "Indian Question" became the "Indian Problem." Beginning with the First Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1851 and accelerating after Red Cloud's War in 1868, the "unceded" area of the northern plains previously set aside for traditional tribal life was replaced by new policies of well-meaning but forcible capitulation and assimilation. To facilitate the process, the West was organized into military districts or "departments". Although the US Army did not govern these directly, it …
Session D-1: Teaching The Indigenous Populations: Prejudice, Stereotyping And Popular Culture, Phyllis M. Henry
Session D-1: Teaching The Indigenous Populations: Prejudice, Stereotyping And Popular Culture, Phyllis M. Henry
Professional Learning Day
This session is a nuts and bolts overview on how Native-Americans are portrayed in Hollywood, advertising and mascots on sports teams. Resources packets with primary sources and reading selections will be provided to all attendees as well as strategies to address the issues of cultural contributions, ethics, stereotypes and prejudice. Handouts will also include tribes indigenous to Illinois and how to incorporate into the Common Core Standards. There will be a free raffle of Native-American resource materials for teachers for their classroom use.
Session D-4: Teaching Quantum Mechanics, Peter Dong
Session D-4: Teaching Quantum Mechanics, Peter Dong
Professional Learning Day
Quantum mechanics is a part of modern life, playing a major role in chemistry, computing, nanotechnology, cryptography, and even biology. Many students are fascinated by the principles of quantum mechanics - and wave-particle duality is now in the Next Generation Science Standards. This course will present a basic introduction to quantum mechanics, accessible to middle or high school students, that will give students a taste of how strange and wonderful the universe really is (while also meeting the new standard). Teachers will be given slides and materials so they can teach the lesson themselves.
Session F-2: Statistics And Probability For Middle-School Math Teachers: Addressing The Common Core, Karen Togliatti
Session F-2: Statistics And Probability For Middle-School Math Teachers: Addressing The Common Core, Karen Togliatti
Professional Learning Day
This presentation will focus on the Statistics and Probability Domain of the Common Core Mathematics Content Standards for grades 6 – 8. Discussion of the language of the standards and how this language translates into learning activities for students will be explored. Session participants will be coached on three inquiry-based lessons utilizing interdisciplinary topics for data collection. Additional take-home lessons will be provided as well at each grade level. Connections to the Math Practice Standards, ELA Standards for Science and Technical Subjects, and Next Generation Science Practice Standards will also be investigated.
Session F-3: Using Problem-Based Learning To Integrate Instruction In The Common Core In Math, Science, And Ela, Kathy Schmidt
Session F-3: Using Problem-Based Learning To Integrate Instruction In The Common Core In Math, Science, And Ela, Kathy Schmidt
Professional Learning Day
Problem-based learning (PBL) engages students in deep understanding through relevant, authentic problems. As students progress through the PBL process, they develop 21st Century knowledge, skills and dispositions in self-directed learning, critical thinking, problem-solving, innovative thinking, and collaboration while also meeting the 8 Mathematical Practices and 7 ELA College and Career Readiness descriptions from the Common Core Standards and the 8 Science and Engineering Practices from the NRC Framework for K-12 Science Education. In this presentation, we will introduce participants to PBL and discuss how the PBL process integrates Common Core Standards and the Science and Engineering Practices in classroom instruction.
Session D-1: Speed!, Elizabeth Martinez
Session D-1: Speed!, Elizabeth Martinez
Professional Learning Day
Varrrrooooooommmmmm!! This hour long session will be over before you know it as we explore the concept of average speed to investigate the use of inquiry to engage student interest and involve them in scientific practices. Attendees participate in an activity that offers a glimpse into the award-winning IMSA FUSION program, and develop ideas to apply the strategies in their own classrooms. Valid driver’s license required. (Just kidding!)
Session F-4: Modeling An Earthquake In Your Classroom, Brian Grublesky
Session F-4: Modeling An Earthquake In Your Classroom, Brian Grublesky
Professional Learning Day
Teachers will model earthquakes using both technology and hands-on inquiry activities. Teachers will have a chance to engineer an “earthquake proof” building and use the engineering process to test and redesign their buildings before being tested on a shake table. We will also discuss how these activities connect not only to the Next Generation Science Standards, but the Common Core State Standards as well.
Keynote Address: New Frontiers In History Education, Ann Durkin
Keynote Address: New Frontiers In History Education, Ann Durkin
Professional Learning Day
Dr. Keating will bring Chicago history to life as she discusses her latest book “Rising up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago,” which was released last August to coincide with the bicentennial of the Battle of Fort Dearborn. She recounts the Battle of Fort Dearborn while situating it within the context of several wider histories that span the decades between the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, in which Native Americans gave up a square mile at the mouth of the Chicago River, and the 1833 Treaty of Chicago.
Session C-3: From Ink Well To Digital: Innovative Technology In The Classroom, Eugene Tesdahl
Session C-3: From Ink Well To Digital: Innovative Technology In The Classroom, Eugene Tesdahl
Professional Learning Day
What do the National Archives of Canada, the Library of Congress, and the Illinois Council on History Education have in common? That’s right. They all offer rich primary documents just an I-pad tap away. Locating on-line primary documents is only the beginning. In “From ink Well to Digital,” Dr. Tesdahl will not only show attendees where to find useful digital resources online but will offer participants innovative activities to get their students using them.
Session C-2: The Middle East In Transition: Questions For U.S. Policy, Steven Buenning
Session C-2: The Middle East In Transition: Questions For U.S. Policy, Steven Buenning
Professional Learning Day
Students explore alternatives for U.S. policy in the region through a newly-revised teaching unit (August 2013) developed by the Choices Program at Brown University. Students acquire knowledge and skills while engaging in a role-play involving four policy options.
Session B-3: So What More Is There For My Talented Stem Students?, Britta Mckenna
Session B-3: So What More Is There For My Talented Stem Students?, Britta Mckenna
Professional Learning Day
Take a tour through IMSA STEM offerings for your talented students. Learn about the IMSA Kids Institute school year FunShops and summer camps, IMSA FUSION after-school program (grades 4-8), IMSA online offerings and new RISE course, Mentor Matching Engine, CoolHub STEM collaboration platform, and IMSA TALENT STEM entrepreneurship program for middle and high school students.
Session B-2: Build Student Engagement, Mental Math, And Reasoning With "Math Talks", Sendhil Revuluri
Session B-2: Build Student Engagement, Mental Math, And Reasoning With "Math Talks", Sendhil Revuluri
Professional Learning Day
"Math talks" are quick routines that you can implement in your classroom within days. They can raise engagement, build efficient, accurate, and flexible mental math strategies, and help students construct arguments and critique reasoning. We will engage in math talks, analyzing how they can be enacted in the classroom and designed for specific goals or respond to specific misconceptions. Participants will learn about math talks that support understanding of number, algebra, and other domains.
Session B-1: Geometry In Art & Architecture, Julie Dowling
Session B-1: Geometry In Art & Architecture, Julie Dowling
Professional Learning Day
Math is all around us! Discover how to implement geometry lessons using art and architecture that the students see around them every day.
Session B-5: Planetary Science And The Ngss, Eric Hawker
Session B-5: Planetary Science And The Ngss, Eric Hawker
Professional Learning Day
The goal of this session is to use what we understand about other planets and moons in our Solar System in order to get a better understanding of the Earth.
Session B-1: "The Bloody Massacre" -- Whodunnit?, Spiro Bolos, Anne Twadell
Session B-1: "The Bloody Massacre" -- Whodunnit?, Spiro Bolos, Anne Twadell
Professional Learning Day
Although this activity/project was conceived (originally) for a Special Education section of US History, it can be adapted to any level of students, including honors. Using materials from a primary source reader, I will present a pair of activities which evaluate both textual and visual literacy by having students interpret a single historical event: the Boston “Massacre”. Students are assigned roles based on eyewitness court testimony from the trial of Captain Thomas Preston. After student oral presentations, the same students contribute to and help create a single shared visual presentation, utilizing quotes from the oral presentation.
Session A-3: Personalized Learning With Ementoring, Carl Heine, Jacki Naughton
Session A-3: Personalized Learning With Ementoring, Carl Heine, Jacki Naughton
Professional Learning Day
Discover effective ways to bring together high school students and mentors for personalized distance learning and research in STEM with teacher supervision. This session explores how schools, higher education and businesses use the Mentor Matching Engine, a free resource developed by IMSA, the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition and Northwestern University. Finding mentors for your students has never been easier.