The Using an Anchoring Phenomenon to Drive Three-Dimensional Teaching and Learning module contains materials to be used in professional learning sessions at the district, school or department level. 

This module utilizes an open educational resource to provide participants with a learning experience symmetrical to the classroom. Through that experience, participants consider how to provide students with authentic learning opportunities anchored in a phenomenon that requires students to utilize all three dimensions of the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Science to make sense of the world. 

This module is divided into five sessions. Within each session, participants are encouraged to plan their next steps for implementing phenomenon-driven instruction.  Following this professional learning, participants will be able to develop a working definition and criteria of what is considered phenomena, experience how launching an anchoring phenomenon at the beginning of a learning experience can support students in sensemaking, explain how utilizing an anchoring phenomenon assists students in growing their science ideas and skills within the context of KAS for Science, analyze how a cohesive storyline can be built around an anchoring phenomenon, and identify and explore local phenomena to make connections and bundle disciplinary core ideas.

A Facilitator’s Guide, PowerPoint presentation, Participant Packet, Phenomena Poster and Module-at-a-Glance are all available on the Science Professional Learning Modules webpage. 

Please submit any questions about this professional learning module to kdescience@education.ky.gov.