Session 6: Submit Work for Microcredential (optional)

You are able to achieve a microcredential—Inquiry in the STEM Classroom—which is a sharable, digital way to recognize your hard work and learning in this course! Submit your work for consideration of a microcredential from this website. Your teacher will review your work—also called the evidence of your learning—and then award the microcredential through Credly, a website that allows you to manage and share your microcredential in a variety of ways in the years to come. While the microcredential is not a requirement of the course, students find them useful to showcase when applying for internships, jobs, and college.

Step 1: Create a Credly Account

  1. Go to the Credly website and create an account if you don’t already have one. Use the same email address that you use for this course.
  2. If you want to learn more about receiving and sharing microcredential , Credly has several videos available. You can learn how to share your microcredential in places such as your email signature or on social media sites.

Step 2: Submit Evidence of Learning

    1. Review the rubric below to understand how your work will be assessed for the microcredential.
    2. Assemble the following content in a web-based tool such as Google Slides, Google Docs, Canva, or Sutori. You may have already done this earlier in Session 6, but feel free to revise based on the feedback you received:

      1. Inquiry Process infographic (from Session 2)
      2. Inquiry Meme (from Session 4)
      3. Inquiry Story (from Session 6)
    3. Add the link to your Inquiry Story at the bottom of this page and then click the FINISH QUIZ button.
    4. Your teacher will review your submission. If it is approved for a microcredential, you will receive an email that an “Inquiry in the STEM Classroom” microcredential is available on Credly. You may then go to Credly to see your microcredential displayed and choose how to share it.

 

Microcredential Assessment Rubric

ACHIEVED COMPETENCY DEVELOPING COMPETENCY
Infographic The infographic includes 4 or more thoughtful steps teachers could use when designing inquiry-based lessons, including tips, hints, questions, images, or anything else that illustrate the process of developing an inquiry-based lesson. The infographic does not include a thoughtful set of at least 4 steps teachers can use to design inquiry lessons.
Meme Meme identifies a key idea about the importance of questioning and inquiry. Meme does not illustrate a key aspect of the importance of questioning and inquiry.
Inquiry Story Response includes:

  • Summary of inquiry lesson
  • Lesson plan details with notes
  • Images from lesson implementation
  • 2-3 paragraphs about how lesson went including:things that went well or surprises, “a-has”, and ideas about things to do differently
  • 1 paragraph about how inquiry supports STEM and what’s exciting about student inquiry in STEM.
Response does not include 1 or more of the following:

  • Summary of inquiry lesson
  • Lesson plan details with notes
  • Images from lesson implementation
  • 2- 3 paragraphs about how lesson went including things that went well or surprises, “a-has”, and ideas about things to do differently
  • 1 paragraph about how inquiry supports STEM and what’s exciting about supporting student inquiry in STEM

 

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