Teaching and Learning CoLab 2024

This workshop delves into the extensive collection of digital primary sources accessible via the Library of Congress website. Housing over 70 million digital resources available for free and out-of-copyright, our nation's library offers an unfettered look into the history of the United States. No matter the age or subject area, primary sources inspire critical thinking through the use of inquiry and analysis. Join us to discover teacher-created, ready-to-use materials suitable for enhancing lessons in literacy, social studies, STEM and beyond.

This session will provide elementary teachers with strategies for integrating social studies and reading, writing, and communicating in the classroom. Research shows that students who receive instruction in social studies have improved literacy scores. Learn more about the importance of social studies instruction in the elementary classroom!

Come join us for a collaborative hands-on session, where we will learn and practice some practical evidence-based strategies that will allow you to better weave the Science and Engineering Practices of Modeling into your current lessons and labs, in ways that replicate the way that real scientists and engineers use models. Expect something that you can use in your classroom tomorrow to get your students using and developing Models.

Have you ever led an inquiry lesson and had it fall flat because students struggled to form questions or structure their inquiry in a way that would lead to learning? Have you ever looked at an evidence outcome that has inquiry or process skills embedded in it and wondered how to help students master it? I will share strategies to help structure and facilitate inquiry lessons with K-5 learners. The examples I use will mostly be from science, but the strategies can be applied across contents. Participants will takeaway strategies they can apply right away.

Music educators use repertoire to build the curriculum that they teach to students across grade levels and ensembles. In this session, participants learn about organizing a scope and sequence based on the Colorado Academic Standards in Music. An example scope and sequence is applied to a few repertoire selections that can demonstrate how to apply the standards to repertoire across grade levels and ensembles. Tools that will be shared include updates to the Colorado Academic Standards in Music, music at-a-glance documents, example scope and sequence for music documents, and an example music theory-pedagogy inventory document that can be used to review and analyze music selections for teaching music. Participates experience opportunities to connect the standards to music repertoire selections.