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MENTORSHIP SESSION 4 TRAINING MODULE

TEACHING STUDENTS HOW TO DESIGN THEIR EXPERIMENTS

Welcome to your mentor training. Be sure to have the workbook of students handy. You can download that here. 

Also if you want to see what the kids have been working on look here. 

In this part of the mentorship program, students will review the concepts necessary to designing their own experiments.

Your training will include reviewing 5 videos videos they have to watch, watching a training video about the session and then an example session (recommend doing at 2X speed and pause where you need). Sessions will be 45 minutes. 10 minutes on the lecture, 10 minutes on an activity, and finally 20 minutes working on their projects. Things get behind. Don’t stress. Just always try to speed things up so you get to discussing their projects.

Lead Mentors will give the lecture.

Supporting Mentor 1 will make zoom rooms/or assign room via a slide

All mentors will run a breakout session and will conclude the session in their room with showing them the homework. You can leave when you breakout session is complete

Click here for the ppt your need to download.

— Part 1 

What is a model system?

This was their review about model systems

— Part 2

What are experimental variables?

This was their review of variables.

— Part 3

Experimental Design

Review about experimental design.

— Part 4

Conducting an Experiment

Review about conducting an experiment.

— Part 5

Experimental Safety

Review about safety to advise student appropriately.

— Part 6

Training Video

Main training on how to conduct the session. Recommend taking notes about suggestions brought up.

During the breakout sessions you will help the students fill out their project map on page 1 of their workbooks. Some students have slides made from them, some do not. Look for their name, if not make them one. The group numbers don’t matter any more because the groups will switch around. Find your session in this folder. Share your screen and fill out the slides for the student so they can engage and copy it down if they want. Here is the google drive link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Rgk1ZZDKZQUx3vaqUm2jUcjX67O6SuDr?usp=sharing

I usually like to get kids to type answers in the chat while I am talking to one of them so all are staying engaged.

— Part 7

Example Session

Here I recorded an example session. You can see the examples I use and places I pause for student engagement.

Thanks for training. Email mentorship.fer@gmail.com if you have any questions.