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Forwarded from CU Boulder:

Register for the Data Puzzles September 2023 virtual webinar series today!

About these FREE Events:

Calling all MS/HS science teachers! Join developer Jon Griffith, data analytics expert Kristin Hunter-Thomson, and hydrologist Seth Arens as they guide participants through the latest Data Puzzles, a resource that combines classroom-friendly scientific datasets with the research-backed instructional practices of Ambitious Science Teaching to help students make sense of phenomena. Participants will receive a PD certificate from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Webinar Schedule: 

Megadrought in the Colorado River Basin (Sept. 21, Register here)

• Thursday, September 21st, 3-4:30 pm PT, 4-5:30 pm MT, 5-6:30 pm CT, 6-7:30 pm ET
• Overview: Join curriculum developer Jon Griffith and hydrologist/plant ecologist Seth Arens as they walk you through the Megadrought in the Colorado River Basin Data Puzzle, a 2-day MS/HS lesson in which students analyze temperature and precipitation datasets to construct models that explain the ongoing megadrought in the Colorado River Basin.

Helping Students "Muck About" in their Data (Sept. 28, Register here)

• Thursday, September 28th, 3-4:15 pm PT, 4-5:15 pm MT, 5-6:15 pm CT, 6-7:15 pm ET
• Overview: Join friend of Data Puzzles Kristin Hunter-Thomson from Dataspire to learn more about the different ways we can help students "muck about" with data to get comfortable with and better understand it. Kristin will discuss the importance of exploratory data analysis ("mucking about") as a complement to more traditional data analysis strategies (make a claim from data). We'll also practice and discuss how to leverage features in and tools beyond Google Sheets to assist in this work. Finally, we'll reflect on how these strategies and tools can be integrated into Data Puzzle lesson sets.