Facilitator Resources (2023)
Facilitator Resources 2023
5-Day Workshop Resources - Please make a copy before customizing
Teachers with GUTS
Natural Selection Prey and Predator
This post includes a link to a model that can be used with the OpenSciEd Bacteria Food Hunt Unit net logo simulation. Lesson plan to come - stay tuned!
Looking at particles with StarLogo Nova
This lesson introduces students to StarLogo Nova using the flower turtles model, then has students experiment with a model that changes the state of the matter from gas to liquid to solid. The lesson plan puts this activity in the context of a week's plans in a middle school science class, has slides to explain the lesson, and includes an assessment activity using the CER framework.
Modeling molecules is solids, liquids, and gases
Here is a model to simulate the forces between molecules. It was written to show to middle school students, but it could be used at other levels too. In particular, parts of the code are fairly involved. Asking students to make any meaningful changes to the model is probably a high school or even college level assignment.
Natural Selection Programming
The lesson has students create white and brown rabbits, and predators who are able to "chase" and eat the white rabbits more easily than the brown because the brown are camouflaged by the tan screen color.
Geometry
Students are introduced to StarLogo Nova, then create and scale geometric figures with code.
Project GUTS on Canvas Commons
A big thanks to Miriam Niebla, educator with Broward County Schools, for sharing a distance learning "student friendly" edition of Module 1 in the Public Canvas commons. Miriam has also taken the time to create a Project GUTS PD Course in Canvas,
If you and you school/district are using Canvas, please feel free to modify to fill your students' needs. Note that the Project GUTS Module 1 - Student Edition is one teacher's "version" of how to teach the Project GUTS curriculum.
Experimental Design for Virtual Instruction
Use the “Experimental Design” to guide students as they develop a scientific question while working in pairs. Emphasize the need to use multiple trials at each setting and to clearly identify the variables, as well as the difference between a question and a testable question.
Dice and Data Activity for Virtual Instruction
Probability plays a large role in models of complex adaptive systems. We’ve programmed our agents to mimic the movement of creatures in the real world. There are also chance events that occur upon when agents interact, such as the passing of a contagion from one person to the other.