Students engaging in the scientific method requires authentic engagement, real collaboration, and rigorous debate about the data students have collected for themselves and for their team. This workshop will show teachers how to give their students the agency to practice science and assume responsibility for conducting it together. Whether contributing to existing theory or revolutionizing a paradigm, consensus-building is the necessary social skill that science demands of students. In this workshop, we will practice two consensus-building protocols that will shift the ownership of learning from you back to your students. You will walk away with a framework for lesson development that saves you time and energy, practical tools to help you implement this strategy within your existing curriculum, and a ready-to-use physics unit on waves. Make your students smarter, your workload smaller, and your instruction more effective than ever.
