Slow Boat PowerPoint Presentation

29 Jun 2017 | Downloads

This PowerPoint presentation was designed to accompany the SLED Slow Boat activity.

Slow Boat PowerPoint Presentation Summer 2017

29 Jun 2017 | Downloads

This PowerPoint presentation accompanied the Slow Boat design activity at the SLED summer workshops in 2017.

SLED 2015 Teacher and Student Research Powerpoint (grades 5-6)

19 Jun 2015 | Downloads

This PowerPoint gives what to expect regarding the SLED 2015-16 research for teachers in grades 5-6.

SLED 2015 Teacher and Student Research Expectations PowerPoint

19 Jun 2015 | Downloads

This PowerPoint gives what to expect regarding the SLED 2015-16 research for teachers in grades 3-4.

Research Activities 2013-14 PowerPoint Slides

16 Jun 2014 | Downloads

PowerPoint slides detailing SLED research activities during the 2013-14 and 2014-14 years.

Slow Boat PowerPoint

11 Jun 2013 | Teaching Materials

The PowerPoint slides which accompanied the Slow Boat design task at the 2013 Summer Institute.

Slow Boat

11 Jun 2013 | Lesson Plans

This 4th grade design task lesson focuses on the concept of drag by asking students to develop ways to slow down a boat.

Think-aloud Protocol Analysis as a Measure of Students' Science Learning through Design Assessment

28 Mar 2012 | Publications

Research has indicated that authentic engineering design tasks hold the attention andinterest of students and can lead to deeper levels of science engagement (Fortus, Dershimer, Krajcik, Marx, & Mamlok-Naaman, 2004; Roth, 1996; 1997; 1998). However, there is a need for student assessments...

Problem Based Approach to Instruction

17 Feb 2012 | Downloads

RGS Summer 2011 Supplemental Material:This chapter examines the problem-based learning approach to instructionfrom the perspective of instructional design theory and synthesizes the current knowledge and theory into some universal methods, situational methods, and principles for a theory of...

PBL Learning Meets Case-Based Reasoning in the Middle School Science Classroom: Putting Learning by Design Into Practice

17 Feb 2012 | Downloads

RGS Summer 2011 Supplemental Material:This article tells the story of the design of Learning by Design™ (LBD), a project- based inquiry approach to science learning with roots in case-based reasoning and problem-based learning, pointing out the theoretical contributions of both, classroom issues...

PBL Developing a Driving Question

17 Feb 2012 | Teaching Materials

RGS Summer 2011 PBL: Developing a Driving Question

Calculating the Potential Energy of Flowing Water

17 Feb 2012 | Teaching Materials

RGS Summer 2011 Week 1 Material: Student Activity

PBL Summer 2011 UV Activity Notes

17 Feb 2012 | Downloads

RGS Summer 2011 UV Bead Activity Experimental Design Notes

PBL Facilitation and Questioning Strategies

17 Feb 2012 | Seminars

RGS Summer 2011 Supplemental Material

PBL Challenge Investigating a National and Local Problem

17 Feb 2012 | Seminars

RGS Supplemental Material Summer 2011 EDCI 627000

Hydroelectricity

17 Feb 2012 | Seminars

RGS Summer 2011 Participant Presentation Hydroelectricity by Team Watt-er

WAKE the Water 2: Hydroelectric Power

17 Feb 2012 | Seminars

RGS Summer 2011 Participant Presentation: Is the relatively small amount of hydroelectric power produced in Indiana worth the environmental trade-off?

Quixote Industries Presentation

17 Feb 2012 | Seminars

RGS Summer 2011 Presentation: What percent of Indiana's electrical grid energy can be displaced by wind energy in the next 20 years?

Solar Power: Is it the IN thing?

17 Feb 2012 | Seminars

RGS Summer 2011 Presentation: Solar Power: Is it the IN thing? Can solar energy collection devices be viable choices to lessen Indiana's dependence on fossil fuels?