Date & Time: August 8 - 12, 2022 (8:30am – 3:30pm)
Location: Zoom Videoconference
Grade Level: High School
Audience: High School Educators
Course Fee: $475

The Biology for the Next Generation Workshop will be offered in two formats: 1) All Virtual workshops and 2) Hybrid which will be a mixture of virtual and in-person workshops.

For this VIRTUAL series, sessions will meet Monday through Friday 8:30 - 11:30 AM and 1:00 - 3:30 PM. While the workshop is presented virtually, it is intended for teachers who teach students in-person. Some sessions will be simulcast with the in-person group. Virtual workshop participants will work in collaborative groups, sometimes exclusively with other educators joining virtually, but will also engage with educators participating in-person. In some instances, virtual participants will use modified worksheets and activity structures.

If you would like more information about the "Hybrid - Biology for the Next Generation" course, please go back to the workshops page.

Patterns Biology is the culminating course in the 3-year high school Patterns Science sequence. This workshop focuses on three-dimensional (3D) learning through culturally responsive, phenomena-based storylines that intertwine the disciplinary core ideas of biology with the scientific and engineering practices and crosscutting concepts as described in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

Participants will experience the Patterns Approach of using inquiry and exploration to teach content to students as well as how to integrate classroom discourse into their instructional design including a variety of data discussion methods. Participants will also learn how to include instructional practices that support student scientific writing that advance equitable engagement of students as they grapple with real-world applications in Biology. These applications involve social justice themes, implementation of Oregon’s Tribal History/Shared History lessons and more complex mathematical patterns and trends.

Please contact kristen.harrison@pdxstem.org with questions.