ATA President’s Address - Jason Schilling NCTCA 2021 Video Library - Closed Each Pre-recorded session can be found within our schedule or can be watched on demand in our Video Library and will be available for the entire month of February. LIVE sessions that are being recorded will be in the library Monday, February 8.
Teachers will be introduced to and participate in an activity that they can take back to their science classroom in order to enable their students to learn the abilities and understandings aligned with science as inquiry and the nature of science. The activity will touch on teaching the following skills to the participants and their students: • identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations • design and conduct a scientific investigation • use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret data • develop descliptions, explanations, predictions, and models using evidence • think critically and logically to make relationships between evidence and explanations • recognize and analyze alternative explanations and predictions, and • communicate scientific procedures and explanations