Meeting in Berkeley California April 18-20 2006

12 noon LUNCH Meeting to Discuss Environmental Education efforts in California and Michigan; What is their relationship to the Ocean Literacy Campaign?

1:15 Finish Conceptual Flows, Standards Overlay, and Revisions

Special Concurrent Session Break-Out Group: Discussion of CA and MI Environmental Education Efforts; their relationship to Ocean Literacy Campaign

3pm Peer review of Conceptual Flows

Check for VERTICAL coherence

Make written suggestions,

4:00 Original Groups Make Revisions

5pm Discussion, Sharing Out, Comment Cards

5:30pm Closure

Evening: Post results on-line to share with on-line participants

At Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley

April 18 – 20, 2006

Hosted by NOAA, National Geographic Society, COSEE—California, Lawrence Hall of Science

Draft Agenda Version 3.1.

Thursday April 20

8:30 am Continental Breakfast at LHS

9:00 Report on Feedback from On-Line participants

Re-group into Grade Span Expert Groups

Review for HORIZONTAL coherence

Make written comments, suggestions

10:45 BREAK

11:00 Original Groups Make Revisions

12 noon LUNCH

1pm Reflection

Next Steps

Discussion of Educational Resources

Process and Criteria for Reviewing Resources

2:30pm Closing Comments: Elizabeth Stage and others

3pm Closure

Ocean Literacy Campaign Scope & Sequence Meeting

At Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley

April 18 – 20, 2006

Hosted by NOAA, National Geographic Society, COSEE—California, Lawrence Hall of Science

Draft INTERNAL Agenda Version 3.1.

Tuesday April 18

8:30am Continental Breakfast at LHS

9am Opener/Introductions/Review of Ocean Literacy Campaign

Thought Swap:

Tell your partner what role you have played in the Ocean Literacy Campaign so far
Tell your partner one thing you know about the impact of the Campaign so far
What do you think we should try to accomplish next?
What do you think 2^nd graders should know about your principle?
What do you think 5^th graders should know about your principle?
What do you think 8^th graders should know about your principle?
What do you think 12^th graders should know about your principle?

Welcome: COSEE, NGS, NOAA, NMEA, LHS, College of Exploration

9:45 Overview of the Workshop:

Goals for the meeting
- Develop a draft ocean literacy scope and sequence for all grade bands
- Discuss how ocean literacy “fits” in California and Michigan state efforts; case studies for how to implement ocean literacy at the state level
- Identify ocean literacy future needs, priorities and actions
- Document meeting results, summary and next steps online

How we got here
- Oceans For Life, Ocean Commission, Pew Commission, COSEE, NMEACommittee, Ocean Literacy Through Science Standards Workshops
Impact and National Significance
- White House Ocean Action Plan
- California Ocean Awareness Campaign
- NOAA Environmental Literacy Grants
- Conference on Ocean Literacy
- Several States Considering Changes to Standards
- Textbook Publishers and Curriculum Developers
Purposes of a Scope & Sequence
- Guide for Teachers
- Guide for Standards Developers
- Guide for Curriculum and Text Book Developers
- Guide for Assessment Developers
- Demonstrates rigor, coherence, research base
Rationale for our approach
- Research base, learning trajectories, progress variables, learning progressions, mind mapping/concept mapping
Assumptions
- Our products won’t be finished (primitive but thoughtful drafts?)
- Need broadest community input (starting today) to ensure buy- in and peer review
- We will use content found in Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts. New content will be captured in a “parking lot”for future use—we don’t want to be distracted by editing or revising Essential Principles…
Overview of comments from pre- meeting on-line survey

10:30 BREAK

10:45 The Conceptual Flow Process

Make a Model Conceptual Flow for Matter: This is a whole group process guided by a facilitator. We will develop a Flow describing Physical Science concepts related to Matter.

12:15pm Lunch

1pm Overview of the Analysis of States’ Science Standards

How we’ll use them as a tool: I don’t know yet how many states we’ll actually get through, but we will share summary information about which standards occur most frequently at which grades. This is a tool, not intended to drive the process, but rather to inform it.

1:30pm Form teams by Principle and Begin Conceptual Flow Development for Grade Spans: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9- 12: I hope that each team will have a facilitator experienced in developing Cfs.

(4pm or 4:30pm Comments from Elizabeth Stage?) Not sure yet when Elizabeth will be available, but I think she’ll drop in twice during the meeting.

5pm Discussion, comment cards

5:30 Wine and Cheese reception,

(Evening: Post meeting results to share with on-line participants.)

7pm Dinner together at a restaurant.

Ocean Literacy Campaign Scope & Sequence Meeting

At Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley

April 18 – 20, 2006

Hosted by NOAA, National Geographic Society, COSEE—California, Lawrence Hall of Science

Draft Agenda Version 3.1.

Wednesday April 19

8:30am Continental Breakfast at LHS

9:00 Report on feedback from on-line participants

Review of research about common and persistent misconceptions in ocean sciences I think this will take 30 minutes so we may need a little more time if there is feedback from the on- line participants

9:30 Continue Conceptual Flows, Standards Overlay, and Revisions

12 noon LUNCH Meeting to Discuss Environmental Education efforts in California and Michigan; What is their relationship to the Ocean Literacy Campaign?

1:15 Finish Conceptual Flows, Standards Overlay, and Revisions

Special Concurrent Session Break-Out Group: Discussion of CA and MI Environmental Education Efforts; their relationship to Ocean Literacy Campaign

3pm Peer review of Conceptual Flows (each team reviews another team’s CF)

Check for VERTICAL coherence

Make written suggestions,

4:00 Original Groups Make Revisions

5pm Discussion, Sharing Out, Comment Cards

5:30pm Closure

Evening: Post results on-line to share with on-line participants

At Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley

April 18 – 20, 2006

Hosted by NOAA, National Geographic Society, COSEE—California, Lawrence Hall of Science

Draft Agenda Version 3.1.

Thursday April 20

8:30 am Continental Breakfast at LHS

9:00 Report on Feedback from On-Line participants

Re-group into Grade Span Expert Groups

Review for HORIZONTAL coherence

Make written comments, suggestions

10:45 BREAK

11:00 Original Groups Make Revisions

12 noon LUNCH

1pm Reflection

Next Steps

Discussion of Educational Resources

Process and Criteria for Reviewing Resources

2:30pm Closing Comments: Elizabeth Stage and others

3pm Closure

NOTES:

April 3, 2006 Meeting Lynn, Catherine, Craig, Kathy, Jo

3 possible uses for teachers:
Ocean as a yearlong theme

Teach a unit on the ocean

Insert ocean examples into regular standards-based science units

Concept Matrix: Big Ideas across top, grade levels/spans down left side.

Key is that you can’t understand the mainstream, basic (general) science standard/concept w/o understanding the ocean example and perspective. Not everything about the ocean, but rather we’ve focused on the essential content. Can’t be science literate w/o being ocean literate. For example, can’t understand productivity without understanding chemosynthesis; can’t understand trophic levels without understanding microbes in ocean; can’t understand diversity without understanding phyletic diversity in ocean vs. species diversity on land; can’t understand “landforms” without understanding ocean features.

Pre-think first related to what kids should know at different grades. New ideas will emerge that are not on the Olit brochure, put them in the parking lot.

See related topics and documents

Agenda_Draft3.1.doc