Kindergarten Dinosaurs and Rocks: An Example of Integrating a Field-tested Lesson Plan for Geoscientists into the Alberta Curriculum
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Abstract
Professional geoscientists have to make many presentations to colleagues, engineers, executives and accountants. However, panic is often felt when a note comes home from a child's educator looking for parents to help in teaching elementary school students. For the teacher, this is a chance to integrate many core subjects from the curriculum with the special and exciting resources available to geoscientists. This paper presents guidelines developed over time, and includes an understanding of how children learn and ask questions, the pace of the talk, and what children need to learn. In addition, data sources and gateways available to geoscientists have been included. While the premise outlined in the paper is applicable across Canada, it is based on the Alberta curriculum requirements. With these suggestions, the classroom experience is really no different than presenting to senior management, although you have to remember that your audience is shorter and does not drive a big BMW or Lexus. RESUME Les geoscientifiques ont souvent a faire des exposes a des collegues, des ingenieurs, des dirigeants et des comptables. Cela dit, il arrive souvent qu'un sentiment de panique s'empare d'eux lorsqu'ils recoivent une note des enseignants du primaire aux parents faisant appel aux competences professionnelles des parents. Les enseignants y voient la une occasion de lier les themes du programme d'enseignement aux ressources fantastiques dont disposent les geoscientifiques. Le present article presente les lignes directrices qui ont ete validees avec le temps et decrit les modes d'apprentissage des enfants, leurs manieres de poser des questions, le rythme particulier de presentation, ainsi que ce qu'ils ont besoin d'apprendre. L'article comporte aussi des references a des sources et des passerelles de donnees que les geoscientifiques peuvent consulter. Les principes de base presentes dans cet article peuvent s'appliquer partout a travers le pays, simplement, on les a appliques aux exigences particulieres du programme scolaire de l'Alberta. En tenant compte des suggestions offertes, on se rendra compte qu'une classe d'ecole n'est pas differente d'une d'un auditoire de gestionnaires; il faut simplement se souvenir que les membres de l'auditoire sont plus courts et ne conduisent pas des BM ou des Lexus.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".