Picture Books and Engineering: Dare to Tinker

Up for a challenge? Join us for a K-2 STEM integrated workshop based upon the picture book The Most Magnificent Thing. Connecting literature with engineering, questioning techniques and inferential reasoning strategies will focus on the trials and tribulations, frustrations, and successes achieved by the protagonist, a little girl. Participants will engage in a design challenge to construct their own magnificent thing while working within constraints. Counting, graphing, working with money, and measurement will be emphasized. Dare to Tinker: including Teacher\u27s Page and student resource

Session A-3: Three-Act Math Tasks

Participants will engage in a Three-Act Math task highlighting the application of properties of geometrical figures. Developed by Dan Meyer, an innovative and highly regarded mathematics instructor, Three-Act Math tasks utilize pedagogical skills that elicit student curiosity, collaboration and questioning. By posing a mathematical problem through active storytelling, this instructional approach redefines real-world mathematics and clarifies the role that a student plays in the learning process. Participants will be given multiple resources where they can access Three-Act Math tasks appropriate for upper elementary grades through Algebra and Geometry courses

Context is Critical: 6th-12th Grade Three Act Math Tasks

Mathematicians view mathematics within interesting and natural contexts. In this session, participants will engage and explore Three-Act Math Tasks; a story-telling pedagogical strategy that elicits student curiosity, collaboration, and questioning while redefining the term “real-world context” and the role that students play in the learning process. Resources will be provided

Teaching with a Full Deck: Card Sorts

Card sorts tend to make students do the thing we value most: talk. Beyond making matches, card sorts provide opportunities for students to classify, rank, sequence, and mind map while setting a natural context for argumentation and use of the claim-evidence-reasoning framework. Join me for a series of card sorts to explore how this easy-to-prep tool will encourage your students to reason and think critically. Math and science resources will be shared. Teacher and Student resources available for downloa

Building Number Sense with Subitizing

Dice, fingers, tallies, and ten frames! Proficient mathematicians are problem solvers who work with quantities in flexible ways. Subitizing is a practice that builds number sense and is key to becoming a fluent mathematician at any grade level. Quick and easy games and activities will be shared

Teaching with a Full Deck: Card Sorts

Card sorts tend to make students do the “thing” we value most: talk. Beyond making matches, card sorts provide opportunities for students to classify, rank, sequence, and mind map while setting a natural context for argumentation and use of the claim-evidence-reasoning framework. Join me for a series of card sorts to explore how this easy-to-prep tool will encourage your students to reason and think critically. Math and science resources will be shared. Resources available below for download include all cards used in the training

Context is Critical: K-5th Grade Three-Act Math Tasks

Mathematicians view mathematics within interesting and natural contexts. In this session, participants will engage and explore Three-Act Math Tasks; a story-telling pedagogical strategy that elicits student curiosity, collaboration, and questioning while redefining the term “real-world context” and the role that students play in the learning process. Resources will be provide

Unit #6: Animals - Remote Learning Activities

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Devaluation of Sucrose Caused by Social Instability Stress in Adolescent Male Long-Evans Rats in the Presence of an Unfamiliar Peer

Rats that undergo the Social Instability Stress procedure during adolescence (SS: daily 1-hour isolation + re-pairing with an unfamiliar cage partner for 16 days) display changes in reward-related behaviour. Specifically, SS rats spend less time in social interaction but more time in social approach compared to controls, indicative of an altered social repertoire; SS males also show increased aggression when competing for access to sweet substances. To investigate to what extent SS influences choice behaviour when social and sweet rewards are presented simultaneously, a Social Discounting test was conducted. The SS procedure was administered during either adolescence or adulthood to both male and female rats to investigate sex differences and to determine if SS effects were specific to administration during adolescence. Results showed that increasing concentrations of sucrose (0%, 2%, 5%, 10%) had no influence on time spent near a novel peer during the Social Discounting choice test, but rats drank less of 5% sucrose when in a social condition relative to when drinking alone. The only stress effect to emerge was in adolescent-stressed males tested immediately after the stress procedure; SS adolescent males spent significantly less time drinking sucrose overall compared to controls, indicative of a stress-induced anhedonia. The stress-induced devaluation of sucrose was not long-lasting as it was not found in adolescent males tested after a delay. Thus, Social Instability stress produces short-lasting behavioural changes in reward processing only in adolescent male rats