Sci TV

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Sci TV

• Miami-Dade County Public Schools
• Division of Mathematics and Science Education

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Survey Time

• Do you have elementary teachers who cringe when
  you mention the word science?
• Do you have elementary teachers who show less
  than a loving attitude toward science?
• Do you have principals who say what science
  program?

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Act I Sci TV Presentation

• Collaboration with WLRN TV M/S
• Grade Five
• Video lesson design
• Teachers Edition
• Thematic units designed to be completed one
  lesson per each nine week period
• Research Results
• PD Program

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Act II Sci TV History

• Grant awarded to WLRN to develop television shows
  based on the Competency Based Curriculum
• Phase I Developed Social Studies series for
  auditorium sized classes
• Phase 2Developed Science series for elementary
  grade five

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Act III Sci TV Curriculum Design

• Grade Five
• Selected as the last grade on the elementary
  level
• Some preparation and exposure to science material
  prior to entering the middle school
• Content driven with curriculum connections to
  other subject areas

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Act III Sci TV Curriculum Design

• Teachers Edition
• 14 lessons
• Every lesson includes a data table and graphing
  activity
• Theme extensions
• Possible field trips
• All materials are easy to find
• Includes alternative and authentic assessments ,
  including rubrics
• Cooperative Learning group rating forms
• Lab Team Response Form
• Incentives
• At Home Science Connections
• Bibliography for teachers, students and media
  specialists

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Act IV Sci TV Units

• Four Thematic Units
• Based in the four clusters Nature of Science as
  Inquiry. Physical Chemical Sciences, Life and
  Environmental Sciences and Scientific Thinking

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Act IV Sci TV Units

• Four Thematic Units include
• (Average time to complete one lesson was two
  weeks)
• Physical and Chemical Sciences
• Shoot for the Moon (Rocketry)
• Wild Blue Yonder ( Bernoulli's Principles)
• Kitchen Cabaret (Mixtures Solutions)
• Energy Makes the World Go Round ( Types of
  Energy)
• Fireworks, Whistles and Bells

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Act IV Sci TV Units

• Life and Environmental Sciences
• Florida Atlantis (Greenhouse Effect)
• Microworld Mystery (Microbes)
• Let the Sunshine In (Photosynthesis, food chains
  and food webs)
• Transport Systems (Body systems)
• Habitats of the Everglades
• Solutions for the Environment

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Act IV Sci TV Units

• Scientific Thinking
• Wild Blue Yonder
• Florida Atlantis
• Discover the Key

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Act V PD Design

• Pilot with 10 schools (1 teacher per school)
• Beta I High needs schools (36 schools all grade
  5 teachers) 1 year
• Added other Beta groups by school choice
• Structure-5 day summer institute followed by
  intro and review sessions quarterly
• Received 60 Master Plan Points
• Trainer of Trainer Model

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Act VI Sci TV Research

• 1997 findings by Dr. Yuwadee Wongbudhit review of
  student improvement from pre to post test.
  Average improvement 85
• Schools that were Sci TV schools performed in the
  higher percentiles on the SAT
• Teachers reported that on the FCAT field testing
  their students were not intimidated by the data
  analysis section of the mathematics and science
  concepts.
• Teachers also reported an increase in their own
  content knowledge after teaching Sci TV
• Sci TV teacher journals and attitudinal survey

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Video Overview Lesson 15
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Video Lesson 5 Teachers Section
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Act IV Sci TV Units

• Earth and Space Sciences
• Puddingtonics
• The Motion of the Ocean

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Video Lesson 10 UM Virtual field trip
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Video Lesson 10 beginning
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Sci TV Video Students to the End Lesson 4
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Its a wrap. I want my Sci TV

• 14 video lessons designed to meet the fourteen
  grade five competencies, later aligned to
  national and SSS
• Classical music to prevent dating and stimulate
  the brain
• Four segments in a story format with an
  introduction to the inquiry, background
  information including virtual field trips,
  inquiry activity and authentic, real world
  project
• Characters students can relate to Dr. Clueless,
  field scientists, fellow students, character
  experts in their areas, COSMO the puppet
  (vocabulary and operational definitions)
• Sesame Street style ( variety of mediums)
• Each lesson is a story journey that leads to a
  life journey
• Makes teachers comfortable with science