Educon 2.1 Session stemnow2.wikispaces.com

1. Exploring the Relevance of Science Education
Eric Brunsell <> Sean Schuff
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2. Time Magazine Cover – 2/13/2006

3. Time Magazine Cover – 2/13/2006

4. Relevance of
Science Education
International data on the following slides is from the
following presentation.
Sjøberg, Svein (2007, 12 June) Reaching the minds
and hearts of young people: What do we know about
their interests, attitudes, values and priorities? What
about the interest for space science? International
Space Science Institute, Bern.

5. Relevance of
Science Education
U.S. data in this presentation collected by Brunsell in
Spring 2007.
Approximately 850 9th grade students representing
geographical diversity.
Add-on engineering perceptions survey given to
approximately 400 9th grade students.

7. U.S. Boys
U.S. Girls

9. U.S. Girls
U.S. Boys

11. U.S. Boys
U.S. Girls

13. U.S. Girls
U.S. Boys

15. So What?
Review the data
Brainstorm questions
Large group
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17. Now What?
Tesla Engineering
Charter School
Small Group: How do
you make science
more relevant?

19. Yeah, but…

20. standards?

21. and testing?

22. Donavan & Bransford (2005) How students learn history, mathematics and science in the classroom, National Academies Press, Washington D.C.

23. Donavan & Bransford (2005) How students learn history, mathematics and science in the classroom, National Academies Press, Washington D.C.

24. U.S. NSES & Scottish CFE
NSES 9-12 ES: The origin of the universe remains one of the
greatest questions in science. The “big bang” theory places the origin
between 10 and 20 billion years ago, when the universe began in a
hot dense state; according to this theory, the universe has been
expanding ever since.
CFE LVL 4: I can apply my knowledge of electromagnetic waves and
their detection to explain how images and information from space
help us understand the structure of the Universe and how it has
changed over time.

25. U.S. NSES & Scottish CFE
NSES 9-12 ES: The origin of the universe remains one of the
greatest questions in science. The “big bang” theory places the origin
between 10 and 20 billion years ago, when the universe began in a
hot dense state; according to this theory, the universe has been
expanding ever since.
Content Driven – Content, Process
“Final Form Science” and Learner Driven
CFE LVL 4: I can apply my knowledge of electromagnetic waves and
their detection to explain how images and information from space
help us understand the structure of the Universe and how it has
changed over time.

26. Exploring the Relevance of Science Education
Eric Brunsell <> Sean Schuff
http://stemnow.wikispaces.com