Join Flinn as we present dynamic, exciting, easy-to-perform demonstrations on core chemistry and physical science. Discover new demonstrations and remember classic demonstrations, all guaranteed to make your classroom come alive!
Hands-on activities in diffusion, passive transport, simulated cell organelles, MRI, hydrophilic/hydrophobic properties, similated microbes,energy transfer, optical illusions and forensics
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.
Would you like to teach more effectively with the help of molecular simulations that are scientifically sound? Bring your laptop (Windows or Mac OS X) and learn how to engage your students.
Learn about earthquake hazards, vibrations of buildings, and damage, through an exciting activity using model buildings and simple shake table. Buildings are tested by applying vibrations on shake table.
See a model lesson used by teachers and Monterey Bay Aquarium which increases student curiosity, modeling how scientists actually “do” science - asking questions, accumulating evidence, extracting knowledge, and applying to new contexts.
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.
The Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope (GAVRT) Project allows students to take control of a 34-meter radio astronomy antenna from their classroom. Grades 4-12.
This session will provide teachers with the tools they need to explicitly teach students literacy strategies that will both increase their involvement in and expression of the scientific process.
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.
Flinn presents activities for middle school – integrating life, Earth, and physical science topics. Participants perform and observe experiments designed to capture the curiosity and engage the energy of students.
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.
How is carbon connected to plants, fossil fuels and carbon dioxide? Check out our students assessment tool, and the hands-on lessons we use to help students explore this concept.
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Join us to learn how you easily you can integrate media-making projects into your science program to engage learners, foster communication of science, and assess understanding!
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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.
Join Monterey Bay Aquarium educators for inquiry-, technology- and standards-based activities exploring the tagging and tracking of ocean animals. Appropriate for middle- and high-school classrooms with computers and internet.
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.
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.
Teaching science academic vocabulary for comprehend and retention is one of the greatest challenges to teaching science. Learn how to meet this challenge by integrating multimedia content and research-based strategies.
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How do astronomers tell what stars are made from? Participants in this workshop will take an ordinary digital photograph and make a spectrum graph using a grating and free software.
Build, test and run real working electric motors. Great for showing the relationship between electricity and magnetism to all ages.
We consider how educators provide opportunities for students to look at the nature of science explicitly, engage in practices of science and think about what we mean by scientific understanding.
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.
Learn how to partner with an astronomer in Project ASTRO, a program focused on sparking student interest through hands-on, inquiry-based activities, and engage in an activity classifying solar system objects.
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Teachers will experience different strategies to develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills outlined in the new CCSS for English Language Arts while learning meaningful science and using critical thinking.
Take part in hands-on activities that explore how our species’ population has expanded to dominate the Earth and remake the natural world in unprecedented ways.
LiMPETS (Long-term Monitoring Program and Experiential Training for Students) is an environmental monitoring and education program for 6th grade- College level students. Learn how to get your students involved in hands-on, authentic scientific monitoring at your local beach. Participants receive the 5-unit Sandy Beach curriculum. Grade level 5-12.
Ticket: $20
Enrich your classroom with a suite of standards-based activities focusing on plastic pollution issues and solutions that highlight physical and chemical properties of plastics including density and buoyancy. Help your students RETHINK current plastic use and REFUSE single-use plastics through alternatives to disposables. Grade level 6-8.
Ticket: $10
Incorporate engaging, collaborative, narrated slideshows! Bring your laptop for a hands-on training. Learn to create narrated slideshows in iMovie or Windows Movie Maker for science learning. Earth Science examples will be used for this course, however narrated slideshows can be used with any science standards. Grade level 6-12.
Ticket: $20
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For teachers who wish to learn more about earthquakes, seismology, seismic waves, California earthquakes, plate tectonics and related Earth science, and implement exciting hands-on activities. Free materials provided.
..with time-saving tips to manage lots of labs without losing your equipment or your mind, in an illustrated talk with resources, and time for problem-solving your equipment management issues.
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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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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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We'll present activities for using on-line data to teach about physical, chemical, and biological factors in marine systems. Learn how to find data from California ocean and coastal areas.
Learn about new PLT’s GreenSchools! program. Engage your students in “greening” their school through investigations and on-line calculators involving school site use of energy, water, recycling and transportation.
Explore the concepts of Electricity & Magnetism and apply your knowledge to build, test and revise a wind turbine model for maximum efficiency. Take away STEM activities and an understanding of the Engineering Cycle.
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.
Explore new instructional tools that will take your students beyond understanding DNA as a double helix – to understanding bioinformatics and its importance in genomics and personalized medicine.
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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For teachers who wish to learn more about earthquakes, seismology, seismic waves, California earthquakes, plate tectonics and related Earth science, and implement exciting hands-on activities. Free materials provided.
This human evolution activity studies the distribution patterns of human pigmentation. Discover the causal relationship, and examine reproductive success and natural selection. Lesson plans, science background, and resources provided.
Simplify the mathematical concepts of stoichiometry by utilizing low tech manipulatives to encourage critical thinking, collaboration, and communication while increasing opportunities for differentiation and informal assessment.
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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.
Explore hands-on, standards-based activities to help your students grasp the immense size and scale of the different realms of the Universe and learn about one of NASA’s latest missions, WISE.
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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.
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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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Join us for demonstrations (activities and projects) for each of the major topics in physics. This session will give you demos and online resources to address HS physics topics.
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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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Projects with Pizzazz looks at ways to engage and excite students with open-ended projects. Basic ideas can be applied to science topics across most middle to high school grade levels.
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Cell phones in science? Students use them to illustrate science concepts in their lives outside of school. Improve your photo skills and integrate engaging photo assignments into your curriculum.
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STEM is involved in the production of the food we eat. Explore trends in food safety and satisfy curiosity in investigating what happens from farm to fork. FREE RESOURCES.
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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Explore the concepts of Electricity & Magnetism and apply your knowledge to build, test and revise a wind turbine model for maximum efficiency. Take away STEM activities and an understanding of the Engineering Cycle.
Join us as we share a dozen of our favorite tried and true plate tectonics models. Each participant receives models, handouts, instructions, and posters ready to use Monday morning. Grade level 6-12.
Ticket: $15
Learn how to guide students in developing their own scientific model of Natural Selection, through games, activities and small group collaboration. You will also learn how to structure lessons so students have the opportunity to reason with the model, using it to explain natural phenomena. Grade level 7-10.
Ticket: $20
Wondering how to increase student thinking/writing in notebooks? Science experiences offer opportunities to apply CACCSS ELA through student notebooks. Receive K-12 Alliance Criteria for Writing Conventions Packet and strategies for increasing evidence of student thinking/independence in notebooks. Grade level 3-8.
Ticket: $20
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
Need a refresher course in Chemistry in order to teach the 8th Grade Chemistry Standards? Covered topics: organization of the Periodic Table, atomic structure, chemical bonding; balancing equations; properties of matter with easy experiments using common household chemicals. Grade level 8-11..
Ticket: $15
Participants will experience firsthand how to design lessons that meet the needs of all learners and enable students to connect science concepts with inquiry-based hands on STEM activities.
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.
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.
Learn how to incorporate the most popular and exciting scientific field into your classroom. Participants will receive hands-on experience solving realistic crime scene scenarios using actual forensic techniques.
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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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Utilize Project WILD, DFG Keep Me Wild, technology, social media to inform people, change human attitudes and behavior to benefit people and wildlife. Receive: Project WILD activities, DVD, supplements.
Engage in inquiry-based activities re-creating and examining observations Galileo used to support the heliocentric model of the solar system, and learn about getting involved in the NASA-supported Galileo Educator Network.
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Explore the scale and composition of the earth's atmosphere in this hands-on workshop integrating science and mathematics. Use scale models and visual representations of data to build understanding of our atmosphere.
Even elementary students understand the concept of bias. Watch us demonstrate a lesson in which students use that understanding to assess the reliability of internet sources. (Most appropriate for 3rd-8th.)
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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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Come use interactive magnetic water molecules and NaCl ions to explore properties of water, states of matter, evaporation, condensation, erosion, and experimental design. Activities mapped to California science standards.
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!
Participants will learn five different activities that can be performed the week before Christmas vacation (or any time throughout the year). Each results in a gift to take home. Grade 8-12.
Digital media tools communicates findings of Project or Challenge Based Learning for learners grades 3-12. Strategies for embedding digital media tools into project based assignments, including resources will be provided.
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.
Discover how to create media-rich, interactive, science-based maps using free tools from Google. Enhance student learning by incorporating this fun, place-based technology into your curriculum.
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Are we alone? Learn about the interdisciplinary field of Astrobiology. Your students can combine biology, chemistry, physics, Earth science, and astronomy to ponder the existence of life beyond Earth.
Reproductive Endocrinology uses a combination of lecture and hands-on activities to help bring the science of saving species into the classroom through investigations into the utility of endocrinology in wildlife conservation.
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.
Come explore a series of amazing cellular landscapes by David Goodsell – each representing the crowded environment of a cell – packed full of proteins, jostling around, trying to do their job.
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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Fun, interesting and easy standards based labs, activities, and a project demonstrating the scientific method. Participants will leave with engaging activities that you can use on Monday.
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LET’S GO meaningfully uses technology to help students do scientific inquiry. Join us for three different field-tested activities exploring ecology of soils. While technology enhances these lessons, it’s not required. Grades 5-10.
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.
Model Based Inquiry allows students and teachers alike to formulate and clarify scientific concepts, including the NGSS cross-cutting concepts of: Patterns, Cause and Effect, Scale, Proportion and Quantity, Systems and Systems Model, Energy and Matter, Structure and Function, Stability and Change.
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Explore hands-on science performance assessment and its relationship to students’ mastering Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards. Engage in two hands-on performance tasks, explore the uses and advantages of this form of assessment, and take home sample students set-ups.Grade level 3-8.
Ticket: $40
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Looking for an active and engaging manipulative on Genes and Inheritance? Come check out our creative, budget friendly project/assessment that uses Potato Heads. You will walk away with all of the materials (including a Potato Head suitcase) and black line masters needed for immediate implementation. Grade level 7-12.
Ticket: $30
Astronomers observe the universe with telescopes across the EM Spectrum. Build a Galileoscope, and learn how astronomers use telescopes to explore the universe. Free telescope, tripod, lessons, and observing guide. Grade level 6-12.
Ticket: $30
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When math and science teachers collaborate, students learn to model and defend science concepts using mathematical reasoning. Participants will develop an understanding of strategies for teaching concepts using common language. Grade level 7-12.
Ticket: $15
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.
Ever wanted a fun and exciting way to demonstrate the cardiovascular system? We did too, so we built one! Come discover the cardiovascular system and how to build your own.
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Help students understand the connections between human population pressures and public health through hands-on activities and current data sets. Participants will receive a CD of lesson plans and wall charts.
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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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Learn how to supervise and grade Science PowerPoint projects. The student chooses a topic, determines a thesis, conducts research, creates slides, and presents to the class. Scoring guides provided.
Use model-based reasoning to help students develop an understanding of Newton’s first two laws. Activities are designed to address students’ most common misconceptions regarding forces and motion.
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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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Participants will learn about plant nutrients, fertilizer practices, and care that go into producing our abundant food supply. Lessons and activities reinforce academic knowledge through chemistry, environmental education, and mathematics.
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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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This hands-on session will go from static electricity to current electricity. We'll do a few activities, address misconceptions and see online simulations to help students learn this topic.
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A great practical introduction to teaching under the Next Generation Science Standards. Examine teacher videos and review curriculum and student work modeling the integration of science practices and content. Grades 6-9.
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Unit on the Nature of Science (NOS), integrating a set of NOS lessons from the ENSI website using a student reader and teacher guide. Exposes misconceptions. Use for any science.
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Hands-on activities explore the forms of energy – motion, heat, light, sound, electricity, and energy transformations. Gain confidence teaching energy concepts and receive free resource materials to energize your classroom!
Show your students how astronomers know so much about stars. We’ll explore light spectra and use internet tools to identify different stars, white dwarfs, planetary nebula, x-ray binaries, and more.
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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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Scientists do everything from climb trees to SCUBA dive in order to carry out their work. Perk students’ interest in a career in science through an exploration of multimedia resources.
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Bring your questions and expertise to this round table discussion of best practices in science fairs. Let’s discuss scheduling, management, safety, pros and cons of competition, and more.
Come up with a compelling question that will drive your next class project to success. Get coaching, resources and support as you add PBL to your curriculum.
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We will frame the challenges for our English Language Learners (ELLs) in secondary school. After identifying challenges in building language capacity in content classes, we will focus on specific strategies that will help make science classes a place to leverage many of the activities that can increase students' use and comprehension of English.
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Build a spectrograph to learn how scientists use visible light to study the Sun. Experiment with your instrument; learn activities about light and spectroscopy; receive (free) spectroscopes for your classroom
Join us for exciting discoveries, and engaging hands-on EM Spectrum activities. Learn about NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Airborne Astronomy Ambassador Program from one of its first ambassadors.
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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In this session we will examine the benefits of experiential learning, plan an experiential lesson based on California State Science Standards, and practice questioning skills necessary for experiential learning.
Interested in inquiry-based teaching? Participants in this workshop will investigate the Particle Model of Matter, fundamental to all sciences, and will explore a pedagogical approach called 'Model-Based Reasoning'.
Want to get your English, history, and math colleagues teaching science? Learn to create standards-based interdisciplinary performance assessments which train students to think like scientists in historical and “real-world” scenarios.
First year teachers share the lessons they developed using Lesson Study methodology. Sales of lessons will be shared.
In this workshop we will learn about supermassive black holes by building a model AGN out of easy-to-find edible materials. Participants receive NASA materials, including our Active Galaxy popup book.
New data from NASA’s airborne observatory SOFIA regarding star & planet formation, origin of chemical elements, and the life-cycle of organic compounds in space. Free lesson plans, posters & resources.
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Can your students build conversion strings with confidence? Bring a flash drive and walk away with a complete stoichiometry unit: lecture notes, concept maps, worksheets, activities, labs, and test materials.
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The presenter will model how to embed academic language development strategies into a biology lesson and then facilitate groups of participants to implement these strategies in their own science teaching.
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