Join Lab-Aids at the Hoosier Association of Science Teachers, Inc. Conference in Noblesville, Indiana on February 15th!
Make sure to mark your calendars to attend our workshops and stop by our booth to talk us.
WORKSHOPS:
Data Literacy for Indiana Classrooms: Strategies and Resources
From Issues and Science
Date: 2/16 | Time: 2:00p | Location: Room 2076
Analyzing and interpreting data is a key component of many of the Indiana state standards. In this session, participants will dive into the practice of Analyzing and Interpreting Data with resources, strategies, lessons, and more. We will review a variety of free and open access data sets and tools to use with students that cover a wide range of content. Teachers will learn strategies for enhancing student data literacy, seamlessly integrating them with course content. Teachers will also walk away with a Lab-Aids activity and materials to support their work with data literacy. This session is appropriate for middle and high school science educators.
Explore Before Explain: The Evolution of Superbugs!
From Issues and Science
Date: 2/17 | Time: 8:30a | Location: Room 2080
Explore before explain (sometimes known as activity before content) is a powerful instructional model in a science classroom. Get your students talking about evolution by starting day one with the phenomenon of superbugs! In this session, participants will model the development of antibiotic resistance in a population of bacteria from. This activity is an engaging launch point for an evolution unit with memorable connections to an immediate and dangerous problem faced by modern medicine. This lesson provides excellent opportunities for students to develop their skills in modeling, analyzing and interpreting data and targets some common misconceptions around the evidence for the Theory of Evolution. Appropriate for middle school life science and biology teachers, this activity comes from Issues and Science, rated all green on Ed Reports as a high-quality instructional material.