This page contains materials used for professional development in association with teaching units and assessments on Plant Growth and Gas Exchange. Materials used at four different Long Term Ecological Research Sites are available, though some may be used across sites.
Teacher Assessments
Teachers take an assessment (download) of their content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge before beginning professional development and after completing a teaching unit.
Baltimore Ecosystem Study
Graphic Organizer (download) for the Story of Adrienne. Teachers explore the thinking of three students, the challenges they will face as they go through the Plant Growth and Gas Exchange unit, and ways to adapt instruction to further their learning.
Introduction (download) to the Plant Growth and Gas Exchange unit and associated instructional aides and Carbon Learning Progression for Baltimore Professional Development workshop.
Kellogg Biological Station
Zip file with materials for introducing teachers to the Carbon TIME Ecosystems unit (download)
Summary of the carbon learning progression framework (download)
Materials for sorting student responses to two assessment questions (THINGTREE and CARBPATH) (download)
Materials for sorting student responses to an assessment question about the
role of food in cricket growth (download)
Zip file with materials used for an NSTA short course on the carbon learning progression (download)
Zip file with materials for comparing learning goals for the Carbon, Water, and Biodiversity strands with the NRC Framework for K-12 Science Education (download)
Zip file with materials on inquiry associated with Carbon TIME units (download)
Zip file with materials on accounts (explanations and predictions) associated with Carbon TIME units (download)
Zip file with materials for working group on Next Generation Science Standards at the Long Term Ecological Research All-Scientists’ Meeting (September, 2012) (download)
Santa Barbara Coastal
Introduction (download) to the big ideas of the Plant Growth and Gas Exchange unit and associated instructional aides and Carbon Learning Progression for Santa Barbara Professional Development workshop.
Shortgrass Steppe
Development of these materials was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation: Targeted Partnership: Culturally relevant ecology, learning progressions and environmental literacy (NSF-0832173). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
