Teacher Support Materials
Aspen Restoration
Teacher
Instructional Guide
This teacher resource includes lesson objectives, instructional strategies, and a guided outline for the successful facilitation of Research Quest in the classroom.
Student
Research Assistant Notebook
This notebook uses structured documentation as a strategy to support students as they work through their investigation. It includes guiding questions, organizers and prompts to help them record and evaluate their evidence, track their thinking, and use all of this to develop an evidence-based response to their research question: "How do we restore aspen forests?". This process helps make student critical thinking visible which helps you and your students reflect on their learning and where they can use additional support and practice.
Student
Aspen Vocabulary
(Print optional)
Teacher
Plot Images Master List
(Print optional)
Teacher
Site Scores Rubric
(Print optional)
Teacher
Game Answer Key
(Print optional)
Student
Treatment Options Chart
(Print optional)
Teacher
Tree Cookie Master List
(Print optional)
Teacher
Treatment Plan
Teacher
Monitoring Plan
Assessment
Student Learning Assessment Tool
This document is designed to assist teachers as they monitor and record evidence of critical thinking skills in students. It includes a rubric with definitions and examples of target behaviors as well as a chart to document critical thinking skills in individual students.
Assessment
Student Rubric for Assessing Learning Outcomes
This is a tool that students can use to self-assess their competency at behaviors targeted in Research Quest investigations— gathering data, making inferences, building a hypothesis, and verbal communication.
Assessment