WYTeacherCon25

Connecting to students’ lives and lived experiences has been shown to be an effective way to support their deep learning. Finding ways to bring students communities and experiences into the classroom in content-driven and instructionally-supportive ways is valuable for teachers. Attendees of this session will experience and walk away with a ready-made activity to engage students in their communities in ways that will help teachers connect to their lives in ways that support their science and engineering learning objectives. The relevance and local connections that are supported by this lesson should be compelling to attendees. This session will provide both firsthand experience with the activity as well as time to consider the activity in their own context, so they will leave the session prepared to enact the activity in their classroom.