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* 1. First Name

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* 2. Last Name

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* 3. School

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* 4. Which of the activities that you learned from the PISA workshops did you use in your classroom this past school year? Which worked well? Which will you do again next year?

  Used in class this year Worked really well Plan to do before end of this year Will do again next year
Light bulb and battery investigations
Conductors and Insulators using potatoes and lemons
EiE unit An Alarming Idea: Designing Alarm Circuits
PBL using Snap Circuits
Basic Circuits using bread boards
Static Electricity Investigations
Using Scotch Tape and Balloons
Comparing Teaching Approaches (Investigations with ice in fresh and salt water)
Measuring Current, Voltage and Resistance between two wires
Motion of battery powered car
Motion using colored bubble tubes
Graphing motion in Excel sing bubble tubes
Design Squad: Rubber Band Cars Design Challenge
EiE unit To Get to the Other Side: Designing Bridges
Projectile Motion using tennis and waffle balls
Center of gravity using crawfish cutouts
Exploration of Newton’s 1st Law of inertia using eggs, cups, and aluminum pan
Design your own roller coaster
Simple Machines
3 Little Pigs Engineering Design Challenge
Investigations using magnets
Balloon rockets
Addition of forces
Matter, Matter Everywhere (Liberty Science Center)
Up, Up and Away (Liberty Science Center)
Good Vibrations: The Science of Sound (Liberty Science Center)

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* 5. Did you find incorporating the engineering design process helpful with your students? Why or why not?

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* 6. Describe one of your PBL Science lessons. Include the problem your students addressed in the lesson and what activities they conducted.

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* 7. What worked well in your lesson?

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* 8. What challenges did you encounter in doing this lesson (from planning to teaching- both in content and pedagogy)?
What would you do differently next time?

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