Attendees will see samples of effective instructional science materials, appropriate teaching strategies, and models of professional development training aimed to address the developing Next Generation Science Standards.
Take your students on an aerial adventure in science with the Hiller Aviation Museum! Experiment with forces using inexpensive gliders, airplanes and helicopters in an exciting make-and-take workshop.
Science or Writing? Accomplish both at the same time. Come learn various ways of helping students make student-authored science projects to demonstrate learning and take home to discuss with parents.
This hands-on environmental science workshop models effective strategies to teach students about waste reduction and resource conservation. Participants will experience center-based activities focusing on landfills, decomposition, and natural resource conservation.
Digital microscopy: utilize advanced technology, hardware, and software, to enhance your stem based science inquiry. The workshop includes demonstrations and hands-on activities with the latest digital scopes and flex cameras.
Come see how the built-in wireless capabilities of our new LabQuest 2 support data collection on iPad and other mobile devices.
Project STEM provides research-based materials that integrate STEM seamlessly into existing K-8 curricula and instruction. Try out one of 18 innovative modules in this hands-on workshop.
Teachers will participate in a DNA Fingerprinting exercise. Applying skills include plotting data using logarithmic. Other STEM - related experiment that are adaptable for your classrooms will also be demonstrated.
Forest ecosystems provide essential resources: water, carbon, and soil. Learn about balancing forest sustainability on the global level. Take home Project Learning Tree’s curriculum Global Connections: Forests of the World.
Explore new DNA, protein, and virus models developed at The Scripps Research Institute, and accompanying activities. Participants will receive a paper model and links to use in their own classes.
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Research shows that time spent planning "smarter" translates into improved student achievement. Explore elements of a standards-based instructional unit, using the backwards mapping model. Receive printed materials and interactive CD.
Learn about the benefits and barriers to taking students on field trips, including current research findings about integrating field trips and classroom curriculum, and essential components of exemplary field trips.
Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of our nation’s ten sources of energy using innovative, grade appropriate activities that engage all learning types.
Come learn how to integrate technology like PHET, Google Docs, and more into your physics curriculum to make it more efficient, effective, and relevant to students.
The experiment focuses on procedures utilized in DNA fingerprinting and blood type-based screening for suspects who may have been present at crime scene. Take home a t-shirt and educational resource flashdrive.
Teaching and learning science just got easier with the new FOSS California website! In this interactive session, we’ll unveil new resources, including electronic teacher guides and student books.
Build, test and run real working electric motors. Great for showing the relationship between electricity and magnetism to all ages.
Ready to expand your Family Science Night? Learn about implementing a multi-night program using hands-on science and conservation activities. Find out about ideas to get started, and roadblocks to avoid.
This hands on workshop will include participants involved in "joint productive activities" using science observations and misconceptions integrated with literacy strategies to build academic language and vocabulary for English Learners.
Learn the impacts of marine debris. Integrate a shoreline or neighborhood cleanup into your program. Analyze real Coastal Cleanup Day data. Empower your students to make a difference! Free curricula.
Experience open-ended, creative activities that deepen students’ understanding of physical science and mathematics present in structures they see every day. Explore using PBS media as an integral part of the curriculum.
Reveal the power of enzyme kinetics using a key enzyme in the production of cellulosic ethanol. Expand the lab with studies of mushrooms and fungi in different ecological niches.
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Finding time to teach physical science in primary (PreK-2) grades is daunting! Come delve into the world of physical science, learn about exciting possibilities for integrating science and literacy, and explore our new Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards. Grade level PreK-2. Ticket: $20
This Short Course is six hours in total. The second part of the course will be presented on Saturday, Oct. 20, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Want science fun in your primary classroom? Mary Miche will sing nature songs and share her new book, "Nature's Patchwork Quilt." Join her for nature-science learning and sing-along fun.
Family STEM events are a great way to encourage families to do hands-on STEM together. Benefit from the experience of a team that has worked on dozens of these events.
Participants will assemble an intriguing hands-on kit which demonstrates key concepts of motion. RAFT facilitators will model effective classroom management strategies. Participants will receive free sets of materials!
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Learn about Key to the Sea, a marine environmental education program for teachers and elementary school children. Engaging, hands on activities will focus on watersheds, coastal environment, and environmental stewardship.
Keeping iPads inside classrooms neglects the most powerful feature of these devices. See how the Monterey Bay Aquarium guides K-12 students to access and create information anywhere, using iPads.
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The pGLO lab’s inducible gene expression and robust results provides a great system for inquiry. Learn how to expand the lab for student directed experiments that develop critical thinking skills.
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Learn to integrate technology and hands-on inquiry. STEM-focused forensic activities that link the scientific method with analysis and investigative skills to solve “cases” involving fingerprint, trace, DNA, and document evidence.
Discuss the issues surrounding wet labs in school with a practicing pathologist, analyze the pros and cons and receive a free one year subscription for The Digital Frog 2.5.
Atoms and cells are the same thing, right? Help students make sense of the very large and very small in this hands-on workshop.
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Paul Robinson will present his favorite physics labs and demonstrations. Attendees will receive a DVD of Paul's favorite physics video clips.
Come join us for an overview presentation regarding the Next Generation Science Standards and its connection to Common Core. Develop a deeper understanding of the key elements of these standards, the connection to 21st Century Skills, and the strong emphasis on engineering and technology integration. Time will be devoted to answering your questions and presenting the draft timeline for final development and implementation.
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Learn about NASA’s “Reading, Writing and Rings” program, which teaches both science and language arts, based on the Cassini Mission to Saturn. Teachers will receive instructional materials for classroom use.
Donated and student cell phones are a powerful no-cost solution to technology integration. Used in conjunction with various free web-based applications, teachers can offer students a more interactive learning experience.
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Discovery Education is changing K-8 science instruction with the Science Techbook, a multimedia approach to teaching science. Learn how it is being implemented in classrooms across the country.
Online collaborative tools such as Google Docs are free and easy. Learn to harness their power in your classroom using a new approach we call Computer Supported Collaborative Science (CSCS).
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Social networking can engage students, increase academic discussion and extend the school day. We’ll explore how to effectively utilize the free social networking tool Edmodo in any classroom.
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Lively K-2 Hands-On Science and Common Core Standards! Come experience engaging physical science activities integrated with ELA. Work through the grades levels, progressing through science content and ELA skill building.
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Enjoy an engaging introduction to our National Parks and the impact of California’s Mediterranean climate on water supplies through the interdisciplinary activities of Project WET (Water Education for Teachers)!
Participants will receive a book on risks and printed materials about genetically modified organisms. They will do some activities to assess levels of risk and to make informed decisions.
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This transformative technique engages students in a collaborative dialogue, uses critical thinking, and allows students to share their ideas without ridiculing others. Resources will be shared for immediate implementation.
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Discover how to set the foundation of your biotechnology program with equipment, supplies, labs, textbook, supplemental materials and grants. Hear about model programs, inspiring students with real world lab experiences.
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Finding time to teach physical science in primary (PreK-2) grades is daunting! Come delve into the world of physical science, learn about exciting possibilities for integrating science and literacy, and explore our new Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards. Grade level PreK-2. Ticket: $20
This Short Course is six hours in total. The first part of the course will be presented on Friday, Oct. 19, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm.
Classes often transform bacteria to express a protein then discard the plates after the “aha” moment. The protein responsible for the glow is the cash of the biotechnology industry! Participants will purify red fluorescent protein and visualize on vertical gels.
Ticket: $10
Meet students exactly where they live – in the digital world – with Pearson’s cutting edge new K-8 science program, Interactive Science.
Come join us and build the human heart and some of the circulatory system! We will discuss how teaching with this hands-on system will make both you and your students more successful.
Early childhood educators will be engaged in hands-on developmentally appropriate science activities that not only engage your young learners with science content but also provide strong literacy and math connections.
Turn your classroom computer into a seismometer on the Quake Catcher Network. Learn how to use this new teaching tool that is also being used to detect earthquakes. Handouts included.
Come learn how to flip your physics classroom (or use an inverted curriculum). Participants will learn the process, and rationale to creating a flipped physics unit.
Connect physical science concepts with hands-on Halloween labs for learning that's sure to thrill. Walk away with 8 lab Halloween themed lab stations that you can use next week!
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Science instruction can support ELs with strategies such as Discourse Circles, Graphic Organizers, Conversation Stems, and Vocabulary Cards. Leverage instruction in science and literacy through text structures and visual literacy. Grade Level K-5
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Learn innovative ways to teach your students observational skills and receive a packet of activities, with scientific background on each, which will engage students and develop quality scientific observational skills.
What’s in your candy? Extract and identify food dyes from candy by separating them on a DIY electrophoresis box. Integrate STEM, biotech and chemistry!
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Investigate forces and Newton's Laws of Motion as we build and test various rockets (stomp rockets and 2L water bottle rockets) collecting data and manipulating variables for the best flight!
Try out fresh ideas that engage young students in exploring the natural world. Take home Project Learning Tree’s new early childhood guide and a music/movement CD. .
This session will highlight notebooking strategies that reinforce the 8 practices outlined in the Next Generation Science Framework and prepare students for college and career.
This "center" based workshop will show you inexpensive and easy ways to illustrate how sound waves travel through solids, liquids, and gases and why there is no sound in space!
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The NRC Committee report on Successful K-12 STEM Education, recommends ways that policymakers should elevate science education in grades K-12 to the same level of importance as reading and mathematics.
The Organized Binder increases student success by providing structure; including a starting routine, goal setting, review of the previous day’s standards, metacognitive reflection at the end of class, and more.
Learn to use student-created videos as a meaningful summative activity for a year-long conservation project and connect it to the standards. Make your own video!
The LabQuest 2 is our most versatile interface ever and it supports data collection as a standalone device, with a computer, and now with iPad and other mobile technology.
Can you communicate the scale of the universe? Two new approaches to this fundamental task are presented including a movie and PowerPoint that will expand your mind. Free NASA materials.
This workshop intends to build awareness of the NGSS and effectively prepare educators to evaluate and provide critical feedback on the final version of the NGSS to appear late 2012.
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Start with a brief introduction of the Common Core Literacy standards and 21st Century Skills. Discover the commonalities and make plans to include in your lessons on Monday.
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MAGIC SCIENCE: magic + science = fun + wow! Learn several fun and very teacher-friendly, student-involved demos that "magically" introduce scientific concepts as they capture--and hold--your students ' attention!
Need help integrating media-making projects into your science program? Explore new online resources to add to your professional development portfolio!
Website: Online PD for Media Making
Want to try Project Based Learning in your Classroom? Discover three tools to make it fun and engaging for your students and easy for you while still maintaining rigor.
This short course designed for K-5 educators will provide hands-on practice for orally capturing students’ science stories using Audacity, a free and easy-to-use digital audio recording tool for both Windows and Mac. Participants can immediately use this new digital media tool in the classroom! Grade level K-5.
Ticket: $10
This session will show how to work with ELL and the Next Generation Science Standards in planning a learning cycle, developing background knowledge appropriately for Inquiry instruction, and vocabulary instruction through the tiered/ blended approach to scaffolding inquiry science. Grade level PreK-10.
Ticket: $20
Participants will learn about and role-play challenges relating to teaching climate change science, the role of denial, and the importance of not "teaching the controversy" in a science classroom.
Pen-and-paper activity replicating the physics involved in projectile motion and orbital mechanics. Think "Angry Birds come to physics class!"
This session provides an opportunity for participants to develop their understanding of the importance of using science as a vehicle to increase oral language development in all students.
Learn the nuts and bolts of planning an amazing Dinner with a Scientist event where students and teachers meet local scientists, engage in science activities, and participate in great conversations.
See how using visuals, realia, graphic organizers and plenty of accountable talk supports all students, especially ELs. Learn to organize instruction by focusing on big ideas, tools and strategies.
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Come join us for an overview presentation regarding the Next Generation Science Standards and its connection to Common Core. Develop a deeper understanding of the key elements of these standards, the connection to 21st Century Skills, and the strong emphasis on engineering and technology integration. Time will be devoted to answering your questions and presenting the draft timeline for final development and implementation. (This session is a repeat session.)
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Expand your K-2 classroom walls and embrace the schoolyard environment. You will learn about outdoor teaching techniques and go outside to experience primary outdoor activities firsthand.
Tackle this power standard with greater speed and success using ratios. Shorten your time teaching stoichiometry and conversions, gaining breathing room the “racing calendar” to bring back experiments and activities.
Learn new tools and tips for teaching the EEI Curriculum, including common core connections, the new EEI PD website, tips for increasing digital implementation, and featured hands-on lessons.
Ever wonder how a lotus emerges from mud clean and beautiful? Scientists wondered too, and it inspired amazing innovations. Lessons in observation skills, sustainable solutions, and appreciation of life’s diversity.
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Excite your students by parachuting into the inquiry process. Learn how to develop an investigable question, design a parachute, test it, and modify the design to make a better parachute!
Learn how student work can be used to integrate elementary science and English Language Arts objectives while serving as a formative assessment of student learning in our district level project. K-6
Get a “fresh” perspective on common misconceptions and misuses in biology and chemistry. Come learn the process of lesson design, critical thinking and incorporating inquiry based activities into your classes.
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CST biology scores of 96% basic and higher in urban LA! We’ll demonstrate/share proven brain research-based strategies to improve motivation, retention, and success for all. Genetics Resources provided!
This science safety workshop will provide participants with a general overview of science safety for public schools. A comprehensive set of materials will be provided to each participant.
Online collaborative tools such as Google Docs are free and easy. Learn to harness their power in your classroom using a new approach we call Computer Supported Collaborative Science (CSCS).
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Learn about NASA’s new Solar System science and language arts program, “Our Solar System Through the Eyes of Scientists.” Teachers will receive free curriculum materials, and learn to use them.
An animal that photosynthesizes? A creature revived after 100 years? Life in boiling water? Ignite your students curiosity by teaching fundamentals of biology in the context of strange biological systems.
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Explore the value of using media to help young learners deepen connections in science, build critical thinking skills, and reach diverse learners with free online media resources from PBS.
Change “I don’t have time for science” to “I have time for science!” FOSS CA Leadership Academy participants share practices that make time for science including notebooking, integration, and assessment.
Come join us for an overview presentation regarding the Next Generation Science Standards and its connection to Common Core. Develop a deeper understanding of the key elements of these standards, the connection to 21st Century Skills, and the strong emphasis on engineering and technology integration. Time will be devoted to answering your questions and presenting the draft timeline for final development and implementation. (This session is a repeat session.)
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Learn about solar energy while meeting your content standards. Explore scientific concepts of solar energy through hands-on activities for all grade levels. Interdisciplinary activities reinforce the science behind solar energy.
Hailed as one of the wonders of the world yet forgotten today, learn about biological research’s first great accomplishment—the disease cure that won the first Nobel Prize.
Learn how environmental literacy is being developed in through the California Partnership Academy model through rich field experiences integrated with the new Education and the Environment Initiative units.
Join us to explore our amazing Sun with hands-on science activities created especially for elementary students. Discover new strategies for integrating science, language arts, mathematics and art in your classroom.
Connect key Biology and AP Biology content to social and cultural issues through a student-driven collaborative project in which students create grant proposals to address infectious diseases locally and abroad.
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Julie Strong
858-453-3440x257
Teach students how scientists communicate, the role of primary and secondary sources, and how to find, read, and use peer-reviewed journal articles. Plus participate in a hands-on model lesson. Handouts.
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