Use the links below to access additional resources related to this project.
Waterford Agriscience - this was the original agriscience curriculum used at Waterford Union High School until 2016. This format served as the basis of many of the resources used in FACTS. With courses devoted to medicine, animal science, the environment, biotechnology, horticulture, and others, the Waterford Agricultural Sciences Curriculum is meant to prepare students for the rapidly changing world through hands-on learning and scientific exploration. Through an engaging and rigorous education, individual career experiences, and personal development, these materials are meant to create stronger individuals, more-vibrant communities, and a more sustainable world. The author of these materials is Craig Kohn - kohncrai@msu.edu.
NAAE Communities of Practice - Craig Kohn's Resources - full curricular materials for the Waterford Agriscience Curriculum can be found on this site (including assessments and keys). You will need to be registered with NAAE as a teacher to access these documents (COP registration is free for teachers).
Carbon TIME - Carbon: Transformations in Matter and Energy (Carbon TIME) is a program that includes publicly available teaching units, teacher professional development, and teacher networks based in local education agencies. The teaching units, designed for middle and high school science classes, focus on processes that transform matter and energy in organisms, ecosystems, and global systems: combustion, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, digestion, and biosynthesis. Students use these cellular and chemical processes to explain the functioning of organisms – plants, animals, decomposers - as well as ecological and global carbon cycling. These units and the instructional model were highly influential in the development of the FACTS curriculum. Carbon TIME materials are developed by the Environmental Literacy Project at Michigan State University. The principal investigator is Charles W. (Andy) Anderson: andya@msu.edu.
Helping Students Make Sense of the World Using Next Generation Science and Engineering Practices - this book provides a play-by-play understanding of how to implement instruction that is aligned to the research-based Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Written in clear, nontechnical language, this book provides a wealth of real-world examples to show you what’s different about practice-centered teaching and learning at all grade levels. The NGSS approach to science education was central in the design of the FACTS materials.
Talk Science Primer - enabling academically-productive scientific discussion and evidence-based argumentation in science classrooms can be very challenging. The Talk Science Primer provides simple but detailed guidance for creating an intellectually-stimulating environment for students to consider, challenge, and refine their ideas through group and whole-class discussion. The 9 Talk Moves are especially valuable - you may want to consider printing them off and posting a copy by your desk. Similarly, you might also want to review the Carbon TIME Discourse Routine.
Greenhouse Effect Reading: climate change can be an exceptionally complicated topic for students to understand. We worked with MSU chemists to develop an explanation of the molecular properties of greenhouse gases like CO2 to explain how and why they are capable of changing the temperature of the atmosphere as their concentrations change - Greenhouse Effect Reading
Are there more resources that could be posted here? Please let me know! Email me at - kohncrai@msu.edu
Student Focus Group - Final Interview Document
If you have questions or concerns, please contact:
Craig A. Kohn, Michigan State University
133 Erickson Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
kohncrai@msu.edu
www.factsnsf.org
Waterford Agriscience - this was the original agriscience curriculum used at Waterford Union High School until 2016. This format served as the basis of many of the resources used in FACTS. With courses devoted to medicine, animal science, the environment, biotechnology, horticulture, and others, the Waterford Agricultural Sciences Curriculum is meant to prepare students for the rapidly changing world through hands-on learning and scientific exploration. Through an engaging and rigorous education, individual career experiences, and personal development, these materials are meant to create stronger individuals, more-vibrant communities, and a more sustainable world. The author of these materials is Craig Kohn - kohncrai@msu.edu.
NAAE Communities of Practice - Craig Kohn's Resources - full curricular materials for the Waterford Agriscience Curriculum can be found on this site (including assessments and keys). You will need to be registered with NAAE as a teacher to access these documents (COP registration is free for teachers).
Carbon TIME - Carbon: Transformations in Matter and Energy (Carbon TIME) is a program that includes publicly available teaching units, teacher professional development, and teacher networks based in local education agencies. The teaching units, designed for middle and high school science classes, focus on processes that transform matter and energy in organisms, ecosystems, and global systems: combustion, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, digestion, and biosynthesis. Students use these cellular and chemical processes to explain the functioning of organisms – plants, animals, decomposers - as well as ecological and global carbon cycling. These units and the instructional model were highly influential in the development of the FACTS curriculum. Carbon TIME materials are developed by the Environmental Literacy Project at Michigan State University. The principal investigator is Charles W. (Andy) Anderson: andya@msu.edu.
Helping Students Make Sense of the World Using Next Generation Science and Engineering Practices - this book provides a play-by-play understanding of how to implement instruction that is aligned to the research-based Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Written in clear, nontechnical language, this book provides a wealth of real-world examples to show you what’s different about practice-centered teaching and learning at all grade levels. The NGSS approach to science education was central in the design of the FACTS materials.
Talk Science Primer - enabling academically-productive scientific discussion and evidence-based argumentation in science classrooms can be very challenging. The Talk Science Primer provides simple but detailed guidance for creating an intellectually-stimulating environment for students to consider, challenge, and refine their ideas through group and whole-class discussion. The 9 Talk Moves are especially valuable - you may want to consider printing them off and posting a copy by your desk. Similarly, you might also want to review the Carbon TIME Discourse Routine.
Greenhouse Effect Reading: climate change can be an exceptionally complicated topic for students to understand. We worked with MSU chemists to develop an explanation of the molecular properties of greenhouse gases like CO2 to explain how and why they are capable of changing the temperature of the atmosphere as their concentrations change - Greenhouse Effect Reading
Are there more resources that could be posted here? Please let me know! Email me at - kohncrai@msu.edu
Student Focus Group - Final Interview Document
If you have questions or concerns, please contact:
Craig A. Kohn, Michigan State University
133 Erickson Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
kohncrai@msu.edu
www.factsnsf.org