Phenomena Based Learning WhoWhatWhenWhy.pdf

A brief description of phenomena based learning

1. Phenomena Based
Learning
Why the Switch?
Students drive the instruction!
More Equitable delivery
Hands on Project, Problem Solving Based Learning
Students increase their ability to ask questions, collect and analyze data, and reason
scientifically
Students can identify important links between Biology, Physics, Chemistry, and
Environmental Sciences

2. What is it?

3. Simplified
Natural Phenomena
Exploration
Asking Questions Both Research Based
and Scientific
Gathering and Analyzing Data, Measurement tools,
Making Models to solve problems, Engineering and
Design
Exploring
Phenomena

4. Lesson Plan Template

5. Lesson Plan Example

6. Performance Expectation:
Using data from a design solution for minimizing a human
impact on the environment, identify limitations of the
solution.
Develop models to describe the atomic composition of
simple molecules and extended structures.

7. Stimuli

8. Develop Investigation Questions Activity
Fishing is a major source of income
for Brandy and her family. Over the
past 5 years, there vessels nets have
been catching more and more plastic
waste in the gulf. While away at
school, Brandy is studying complex
polymers at school and ran upon an
article she found interesting. The title
caught her attention.
Read the Article and Annotate

9. Investigative Phenomena Activities
Part of a student project:

10. Final Project Board w/ possible solutions

11. Our Goal
In connection with the mission the goals within our science department are to provide a
challenging education, centered in community responsibility.
Therefore our mission is to create a space for students to use their natural senses of
curiosity, creativity, and wonder to guide explorations in the classroom that have
connections with the world around them and illustrate the direct responsibilities therein.
By fostering the skills of (identifying problems, asking questions, collecting and analyzing
data, while reading scientific texts) inquiry, engineering, and scientific literacy we aim to
ensure that our students are poised to leave us as problem solvers capable of using their
acquired language skills to understand and analyze issues in our increasingly global
society.