Keystone Science Network Fall Colloquium 2001

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Keystone Colloquium, November 27, 2001
After Standards, What Next?

Dr. G. Kip Bollinger, Pennsylvania Department of Education State Science Advisor, spoke with Keystone participants, addressing the relationship between instruction and state science and technology standards. Dr. Bollinger's presentation examined instructional practice and assessment strategies to show examples of how to improve the alignment of the activity with the standard and student assessment. In the afternoon, participants focused on identifying museum exhibit elements which addressed certain state standards.

Dr. Bollinger addresses the group, discussing the status of Pennsylvania's science and technology standards and proposed science, technology, environment, and ecology processes (STEEP) assessment.

Dr. Bollinger displays slides of possible test questions and the standards to which the questions align, and the group considers the answers.

Participants engage in a human body reaction time activity, designed to highlight the relationship between activity alignment with a standard and student assessment. The ruler was dropped and caught, challenging the teachers to consider several variables.

JoAnne and Natalie check out the measurements on the ruler to see where on the ruler they caught it.

Dr. Bollinger discussed particular concerns regarding the standards and assessment with the participants.

During computer time, the teachers used KSN and other resources to seek science sites that related to the standards.

Out on the museum floor (and here in The Train Factory), teachers were challenged to see how exhibit elements could align to standards.

Here, Newton's Dream offers interesting opportunities for standards alignment.

The investigation continues

The Franklin Institute gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the National Science Foundation and Unisys Corporation.

The Franklin Institute is the Demonstration Site for the Eisenhower Mid-Atlantic Consortium, providing science and math resources for teachers.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9819641.
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.

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