What Do Students Get from PBI?

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What Do Students Get from PBI?
Permission to Think For Themselves

• They get to actively participate

• They begin to experience the teacher as a
  facilitator
• and as a learner instead of a disiminator of
  information

• They get the opportunity to think like
  scientists

• They have the opportunity and encouragement to
  take ownership for thinking learning

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What Do Students Get from PBIS?

A Chance to Learn HOW To Learn

• Engagement in the higher levels of thinking
  Analyzing data, Synthesizing data, Application of
  data

• Participation in a culture that promotes
  collaboration,
• reasoning, reflection

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How Do Good Friends Make Me Sick?
(The Spread of Diseases)
This activity illustrates

• How quickly a disease can spread through a
  population

• How a disease can spread through a population
• without any symptoms

• How good friends can make you sick
• without your knowing it

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What is Inquiry ?
An active learning process in which students
answer research questions through data analysis.

• Students
• Conduct the analysis
• Draw their own conclusions

National Science Teachers Association
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Most students need substantial scaffolding before
they are ready to develop scientific questions
and design effective data collection procedures
to answer these questions.
This is where PBIS hits a homerun .
They recognize this fact and . . .seek to
provide experiences that help students progress
to greater inquiry skills through series of
graduated steps.
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Many worthwhile science activities
traditionally do not involve a research question
or data analysis
Inquiry based activities must start with a
scientific question
EXAMPLES
How does temperature affect the rate of a
chemical reaction?

How does the amount of load affect the rate of
fall of a parachute?
How does light affect the germination of a seed?
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Students need practice in inquiry, building up
to increasingly open and complex levels of
inquiry
PBIS gives an excellent progression of
activities to accomplish this
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What Is Going To Be Hard?

• As a teacher, keeping quiet!
• Letting kids do the talking
• Hands off approach
• Rubrics and assessment
• Grades
• Managing the pace

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What Benefits Do You Get?

• A chance to inspire students to grow and improve
  Science skills
• A chance to produce Student Scientists, not just
  Science students
• A chance to meet your Science Curriculum goals
  in a more engaging way
• An opportunity for students to better retain
  what they learn
• A chance to set a culture of collaboration,
  learning, and rigorous thinking.
• A structure for easing in to Inquiry method
• A chance to dramatically reduce undesirable
  behaviors

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Hey Mrs. Tenenbaum, Its Samantha from your old
7th/8th grade Science class!! I felt it would be
exciting to tell you what the Riverwood kids
have done with the knowledge you have taught us!
Do you remember the coaster cars? I never thought
I would ever make use of that information! (No
offense) Last Friday I was proved wrong. Some
students were invited to participate in a
special technology/physics contest in a day long
school event. It involved engineering and related
skills. Our first challenge was to build and An
air jet car. We looked at each other and laughed.
Needless to say,we blew away the competition
and won first place. Just thought youd like to
know! Your student, Samantha
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Parachute Activity