ENGAGE

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ENGAGE

• Copernicus Project
• Day 1

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• What did we talk about at the Copernicus
  Project Kick Off?

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Standards Pacing Guides
Inquiry learning
HELP
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Inquiry Learning
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• No! No! No!
• Drill and kill was good enough for me, and its
  good enough for students today.
• Multiple choice tests will answer all of the
  mysteries of science.
• Its the only way!

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Confused?Is the only choice between direct
instruction and inquiry?
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Thats Like Saying

• If today is not Tuesday, it must be Friday.
• Youre either a Barbra Streisand fan, or youre
  a Mariah Carey fan. You cant be both.

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Thats Like Saying

• The glass is either half broken, or its half
  repaired.

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• What if you changed?

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What If You Changedfrom either/or
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To Yes/And ?
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ENGAGE is about involving students in something
that is interesting to THEM
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Youve Heard of the Da Vinci Code
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Maybe Youve Even Heard of theDoh-Vinci Code..
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Do You Remember theCoperni-Code?

• GhQ2

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Graphics
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1390 km 62 km
http//adamneiman.co.uk
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1994 km
http//adamneiman.co.uk
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http//flagrantdisregard.com

• Magazine covers
• Movie posters
• Fortune cookies
• Several other sign generators
• Several of these allow you to insert your own
  photos

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www.signgenerator.org

• The Matrix
• The Simpsons
• Earth
• Dozens of other sign generators

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www.gaxed.com

• Bat signal
• Hollywood sign
• TV news reports
• The error message in the corner comes from
  atom.smasher.org/error

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www.warninglabelgenerator.com

• Several different warning labels with graphics
  and room for about 5 lines of text

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Graphics Sites
www.eyeofscience.com www.ezprezzo.com www.imageaft
er.com www.grand-illusions.com www.pbrc.hawaii.edu
/microangela
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Graphics Sites
www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu www.rmit.edu.au/sciphoto
www.istockphoto.com www.princeton.edu/artofsci ww
w.nikonsmallworld.com
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Humor
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Some Humor Sites
www.welaf.com www.zoned.dk/index.php (click on
the Gallery link) www.dumbphotos.com
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Quotes
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• "The energy produced by the breaking down of the
  atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who
  expects a source of power from the transformation
  of these atoms is talking moonshine."

Ernest Rutherford, shortly after splitting the
atom for the first time.
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• Two brothers bought a cattle ranch and named
  it focus. When asked why they gave it such an
  unusual name, they said, Because its the place
  where the sons raise meat.
• --- Dr. W.B. Pietenpol
• Univ. of Boulder, Colorado

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Quotation Sites
www.naturalscience.com www.quotationspage.com/ sub
jects/science/
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Questions
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DUE DATES

• July 20, 2007
• Oct. 23, 2007
• March 15, 2008

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Look in Your Workbook

• Read page 3 and page 4
• Do the activity on page 5

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