PBL3 STEAM Institute in Detroit
DAY 2
Agenda
8:15
Dossin Great Lakes Museum (100 The Strand)
Writing into the Day: Take a Line for a Walk
Select a phrase or sentence from Smith & Teisan (2019). Write it in your journal. Then, using that "line" as a starting point, add your own words and sentences.
Key Presentation: Connecting with Primary Sources
Tour and Brainstorming
Debrief
10:15
Key Presentation: Thinking Routines, Primary Sources, and Launching PBL
11:15
Presenter: Scott, Teacher and PBL2 Alumnus, "Creating an environmentally friendly school store with fifth grade"
noon
Lunch
1:30
Presenters: Jelane and Kim, Teachers and D33 Alumnae, "Project H.O.P.E.—Housing opportunities and possibilities for everyone: A collaboration between a secondary art teacher and a Montesorri second grade teacher"
2:30
Project Planning and Poster Session Overview
Reflections (3-2-1)
Homework
Watch "Deepening an existing unit with primary sources and argument writing: Ocean pollution" (Ross & Smith, 2022)
Featured Primary Sources
A Woman Dropping Her Tea-cup in Horror. 1828. (Library of Congress).
Related blog post: Primary sources in science classrooms: Dimensions of water quality. (Library of Congress).
"Sturgeon and caviar." Evening Star. 1913, September 24. (Chronicling America, Library of Congress).
Car ferry, Michigan Central, entering slip, Detroit River. Between 1880 and 1901. (Library of Congress).
Zebra mussel on native mussel. ca1998-2011. (U.S. National Archives.)
Related blog post: Invasive species and historic newspapers from Chronicling America. (Library of Congress).
Fish and Wildlife Service employee weighing lake sturgeon. 2011. (U.S. National Archives.)
S.3187, Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act. 2012. (Congress.gov).
Related blog post: Primary sources in science classrooms: Microbeads, nanomaterials, and federal legislation. (Library of Congress).