Creative Collaborators: Using Data to Solve Problems in Early Years to Grade 6 (St. John's)

Thanks to continued funding support from Hibernia Management & Development Company Ltd. all registrants who attend this session will receive a full refund.

Enhance your students’ ability to use data to design creative solutions to relevant, real-world problems as well as the development of students' global competencies including critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, collaboration and communication. Collaborate with colleagues and engage in meaningful discussions on program planning for elementary education.

This is a full day professional learning session that will provide Early Years to Grade 6 educators opportunities to explore learning strategies that will help move students from being digital consumers to digital innovators.

Expected Outcomes:

• Gain practical, hands-on experience with student-centered, curriculum-aligned STEM resources that can be implemented into your elementary classroom.

• Understand computational thinking and the related skills and competencies

• Investigate the use of sensors and their application in the real world

• Identify and refine a problem to be solved/need to be met through engaging in a hands-on design challenge

• Explore data science concepts by collecting and analyzing student-generated data

• Collaborate with colleagues and engage in meaningful discussions that support program planning in early STEM education

Sign in: 8 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Workshop: 9:00 a.m. to 3 p.m.

This session is open to all Early Years to Grade 6 educators.

Facilitators:

Lynn Fitzpatrick, Education Program Consultant

Cheryl Donovan White, Professional Learning Associate

Want more information? Please contact Lynn at lfitzpatrick@letstalkscience.ca or Cheryl at cdonovan@letstalkscience.ca.

Thanks to continued funding support from Hibernia Management & Development Company Ltd. all registrants who attend this session will receive a full refund.

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