Scientific Communication: Helping Students Tell the Story of Their Research
May 3 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Overview
Strategies, scaffolds, and sample student work to explore how we help students communicate and tell the story of their research!
KEY INFORMATION
- LOCATION: Virtual, on Zoom
- DATE & TIME: Sunday, May 3, 2026, 10am – 12pm
- LED BY: Jason Sullivan
- CTLE AVAILABLE: 2
- THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR: Middle and high school teachers in any subject whose students are doing longer and/or research-style projects
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
You’ve spent the year guiding students through authentic, student-driven research—now it’s time to help them clearly and convincingly communicate their findings. Engaging middle and high school students in real research builds curiosity and creativity, but communicating the significance of that work requires a new set of skills.
How do students effectively tell the story of their research to different audiences? With many scientific disciplines, formats, and purposes for communication, your students can benefit from structured opportunities to refine and critique one another’s work. Recognizing that participants may be at different points in their students’ research timelines and working toward different final products, you’ll be invited to share details about your projects, target audiences, and goals so the workshop can be tailored to your needs.
During the workshop, we will explore rubrics, peer review protocols, and practical tools to support students in crafting clear, compelling scientific narratives across formats, including oral presentations, written papers, magazine-style articles, expo posters, podcasts, and more.
A downloadable version of the agenda is available here
THIS WORKSHOP IS ALSO PART OF A SPRING SERIES for teachers using research project-based curriculum working up to student-driven investigations and year-end project showcases. All are welcome to join, and participants in the NYAS Scientist in Resident program are specifically invited. Other workshops in this series include:
- 2/28 – Socratic Dialogue (completed)
- 4/18 – Deconstructed Journal Clubs
- 4/26 – From Classroom to Research Lab! Student Peer Review Protocols
- 5/3 – Scientific Communication: Helping Students Tell the Story of Their Research (THIS WORKSHOP)
WORKSHOP LEADERS
Jason Sullivan – bio coming soon!
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