History of Science Triangles
The activities that were created and are available on this website are based on a workshop that Nassau Earth Science SAR Ken Abbott attended at the 116th STANYS Annual Conference in November 2011. Rodelio Abuan is an award-winning educator from Texas (and the Philippines) who is known for creating innovative science games to help his students. One of the games he created is called Tatsulok, which means 3 corners in Pilipino. His games are available commercially at http://www.scienterrificgames.com/. The science triangles presented here are based on the game that Rodelio made to reinforce and review science material.
There was very little material available that fit the NYS Regents Earth Science curriculum so Melissa Torre and Ken decided to create templates based on the ideas presented in the workshop. Melissa created the Word template for the triangles. She also made a template for the Train Review that is based on Rodelio’s “Don’t-Cut-D-Pillar” activity. I worked on the Excel portion and then developed an entire set of triangles for the Earth Science/Physical Setting course for NYS. We presented these together at the November 2012 STANYS Conference. These are available under the Earth Science Triangles tab.
For the 4th Annual NYESTA field conference in Fredonia in July 2017, he decided to create another complete set of triangles based on the Earth Science Reference Tables. These new triangles are found with the ESRT Triangles tab. Triangles for the Living Environment course were created and shared by Carol-Ann Winans. Templates and Other games are found under the last two tabs. I hope you will find our work helpful.
If you have questions or would like to share some triangles that you created with other educators, please feel free to contact Ken at ken.abbott@gmail.com .
The activities that were created and are available on this website are based on a workshop that Nassau Earth Science SAR Ken Abbott attended at the 116th STANYS Annual Conference in November 2011. Rodelio Abuan is an award-winning educator from Texas (and the Philippines) who is known for creating innovative science games to help his students. One of the games he created is called Tatsulok, which means 3 corners in Pilipino. His games are available commercially at http://www.scienterrificgames.com/. The science triangles presented here are based on the game that Rodelio made to reinforce and review science material.
There was very little material available that fit the NYS Regents Earth Science curriculum so Melissa Torre and Ken decided to create templates based on the ideas presented in the workshop. Melissa created the Word template for the triangles. She also made a template for the Train Review that is based on Rodelio’s “Don’t-Cut-D-Pillar” activity. I worked on the Excel portion and then developed an entire set of triangles for the Earth Science/Physical Setting course for NYS. We presented these together at the November 2012 STANYS Conference. These are available under the Earth Science Triangles tab.
For the 4th Annual NYESTA field conference in Fredonia in July 2017, he decided to create another complete set of triangles based on the Earth Science Reference Tables. These new triangles are found with the ESRT Triangles tab. Triangles for the Living Environment course were created and shared by Carol-Ann Winans. Templates and Other games are found under the last two tabs. I hope you will find our work helpful.
If you have questions or would like to share some triangles that you created with other educators, please feel free to contact Ken at ken.abbott@gmail.com .
