Michigan Science Teachers Association Conference 2020 (MSTA)

If you can't see it, how do you know its there? In this session, participants will engage in a sample lessons from Interactions - a free-use, NGSS-aligned, physical science curricula for high school - and collect indirect evidence about something you cannot see, touch, smell, or hear. Emphasis is on supporting students in "figuring out" when there is no right or wrong answer - only the unknown. In this lesson, students make claims based on indirect evidence - just as Thompson and Rutherford did during their famous experiments resulting in more refined atomic models.