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Wipro Fellows Program

Melissa Milius, Lucy Shrout, and Liz Schwab

What is the Wipro Fellows program?

The Wipro Science Education Fellowship (Wipro SEF) at the University of Missouri (MU) is made possible by a grant from global information technology company, Wipro Ltd., The program is committed to:

• Improving teacher practice
• Developing teacher leaders
• Increasing student achievement in the sciences

20 science teachers from grades K-12 in Mid-Missouri were selected to participate in this years cohort. We meet once a month as a cohort and once a month as a Biology, Chemistry, Earth or Physics science group.

COURSE OF STUDY

Place Based Education Place-Based Education is an approach that connects learning and communities with the primary goals of increasing student engagement, boosting academic

• utcomes, impacting communities and promoting

understanding of the world around us.

4th Grade

From Trash to Gas: Biomass Energy

COMMUNITY CONNECTION:

Backer’s Potato Chips Baker Farms We’ve got GAS! This is AMAZING! When is SCIENCE?

Lucy Shrout- 8th grade I wanted science notebooks to become a place for:

*Students to record their predictions, investigations, & reflections. *A place to record their learning process--not what I tell them to record. * Formative assessment. Course of Study:

Using science notebooks to increase student achievement and inquiry.

Liz Schwab- FHS

Course of Study

Improving Student Achievement in Using Digital Student Notebooks.

We used the Google Suite, Rocketbooks, StoryboardThat, and Piktochart

• Goal:

Existing notebook concept Digital form of understanding