Building Standards-Based Curriculum Units
with New Technologies

Analysis, Interpretation and Inference


A California teacher working
with students analyzing data
in a science class.

North Carolina Science Standards

Science as Inquiry - As a result of activities in grades 9 - 12, all students should develop:

• The ability to do scientific inquiry.
• Understanding about scientific inquiry.
• Abilities to perform safe and appropriate manipulation of materials, equipment, and technologies.
• Mastery of integrated process skills.

• acquiring, processing, and interpreting data.
• identifying variables and their relationships.
• designing investigations.
• experimenting.
• analyzing investigations.
• constructing hypotheses.
• formulating models.

An Overview of Purpose

The best use of new technologies is to support the analysis, interpretation and inference required by many of the North Carolina Curriculum Standards in curriculum areas such as math, science, social studies, art and all the other academic areas. This three day workshop is designed to engage teachers in the construction of curriculum rich learning units that make effective use of new technologies along with classic tools such as print materials, interviews and good questioning. Units will require that students explore essential questions, solve problems and make decisions regarding issues, concepts and content drawn from the curriculum. Participants will work alone or in small teams (no more than 4 per team) to develop the units.

While no knowledge of HTML is required to participate in this workshop, a basic working comfort with programs such as Microsoft Word is required. This is not for complete novices unless they team with others who have solid skills.

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