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 * Creating Science Lessons through Backwards Design**


 * March 5, 2011**


 * Agenda**

9:00 Welcome and Introductions


 * Backchannel

9:15 Backwards Planning: A Review


 * Principals of Backward Design

9:30 Science Instruction in the 21st Century


 * The JASON Project
 * CSI: NYC

10:00 Big Ideas and Enduring Understandings


 * [[file:Lesson Plan Template.doc]]
 * [|Overview of UbD Template]
 * [|Download Template]

10:20 Designing Project-Based Assessments


 * RubiStar

11:00 Lesson Planning (with a break for lunch)


 * Museum Projects

1:00 Peer Review


 * [[file:Peer Review Protocol.doc]]

1:45 Final Revisions

2:30 Publication
 * Post your Lessons

2:50 Evaluation

Facilitator: William L. Heller, Ph.D. Teaching Matters



**April 30, 2011**

**Agenda**

9:00 - Welcome and Introductions

9:15 - Professional Developers Roundtable

10:30 - Fostering Online Communication and Collaboration

12:30 - Lunch

1:00 - Data Collection

1:30 - Online Resources

2:30 - Sharing of Work

2:50 - Session Evaluation