BABEC presents models and best practices for supporting high school biotechnology programs. We will demonstrate novel and engaging ways to bring hands-on, inquiry-based biotechnology into your classroom.
Click here to download workshop handout (.pdf, 3MB)
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.
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.
Do you want to make your physics more inquiry-based? We made the change this year and will share our insights and several resources to help you make the switch too.
Not enough time to teach science? Learn how EARTHS, a science-centered elementary school, integrates science, language arts, and ELD. Take home a rubric to assess science content, processes, and communication.
See inexpensive models for teaching about cells, respiratory and digestive systems. Try out an esophagus modeling lab by using a balloon, marble, and your fingers to begin peristalsis.
Handouts:
California’s beaches are constantly changing. Examine a wonderful diversity of sand, learn about the “sand highway,” and discover why beaches may be “here today, gone tomorrow.” Free curriculum.
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.
Utilize technology to further students’ understanding and engagement. Use phones, computers, and tablets to conduct real-time, in-class assessments, both formative and summative. Integrate vodcasting for remediation and differentiated instruction.
Teaching the 8th grade standards with a "paper chemistry set", inexpensively, using a paper chemistry set, to teach the organization of the Periodic Table, ionic and covalent bonding, atomic structure. Grade 8.
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.
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.
Sponsored by Sargent-Welch, Science Kit, and Ward’s Natural Science
New to the California Science Education Conference? Enjoy a complimentary cup of coffee during an orientation session let by CSTA board members and experience conference goers will give you a warm welcome and show you the ropes. You’ll get the inside scoop on where to go, what to do, and how to make the most of your conference experience. Register to win exciting science-based prizes that will be raffeld during this session.
Participants will construct an understanding of California’s water and associated supply & demand dilemmas, through hands-on, data-centered activities involving maps, all ready for immediate classroom use.
Click here to access session handouts.
Bring your laptops to explore SimScientists Human Body Systems, supplementary simulation-based instructional modules focusing on a multilevel model of carbohydrate metabolism. The modules include formative and summative assessments with reports.
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.
Handouts:
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.
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!
Click here to access handouts from presenter's website.
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.
Click Here for Workshop Handout
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.
Experience an interactive rock cycle game that is inquiry-focused and built on the three key findings in “How People Learn”. Leave with a complete lesson that can be used immediately.
Handouts:
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.
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.
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.
Explore hands-on science assessment and its relationship to students’ mastering Common Core standards. Engage in a hands-on performance task. Explore the uses and advantages of this form of assessment.
Click here to download session handouts.
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.
Density in three distinct and differing lessons. Two hands-on lessons and one method to help deal with density word problems.
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.
In this workshop the activity of different peroxidase enzymes is compared. Participants conduct a peroxidase assay on different plant and animal tissues and learn to extract and assay for HRP.
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.
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.
Handouts:
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.
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.
This workshop will focus on techniques to make science notebooks meaningful for students. Participants will engage in hands-on activities, analyze student work and reflect on challenges and successes using notebooks.
Handouts:
Comprehensive marine biology course teaching all California biology standards! Lessons, labs, activities, assessments, games, interactives/webquests. CST test scores were: 96% Advanced /Proficient in an inner-city 100% Black /Latino public school!
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.
Integration of any two subjects-including science and art-is truly a dance. Who leads? Who follows? Learn how science and arts integration can help students understand difficult science concepts.
Activity Before Content: Instructional strategies and activities that provide students with the essential experiences that serve as context for building knowledge in biology, earth science, chemistry, and physics.
Learn how to integrate climate topics and activities into your science curriculum. We will include opportunities for educators to engage in activities and interact with the presenters through table activities. Grades 4-5.
Explore new, computer-based, virtual chemistry lab activities that help students connect procedural knowledge with authentic chemistry learning! Participants will learn about freely available online materials, aligned with California science standards.
Click here to download session handout.
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.
Click here to access presenter's website with links to materials and resources.
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!
Handouts:
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.
This workshop will explore sustainability concepts and how they can be integrated into the science curriculum. Participants will map connections between sustainability concepts and science standards for their grade level.
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.
Click here to access workshop handouts.
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.
Atoms and cells are the same thing, right? Help students make sense of the very large and very small in this hands-on workshop.
Handouts:
Organisms have adaptations that allow them to survive within their habitat. What happens when their habitat changes? Explore California species and habitats, with an emphasis on the coast. Free curriculum.
Discover ways to build collaboration with other teachers through the lesson study process. See how planning lessons, videotaping and reflecting together can assist in teaching lessons that accommodate all learners.
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.
This meeting is for leaders of small science organizations to meet and discuss their issues. Representatives of organizations, CSTA Chapters, or anyone interested in starting an organization is welcomed.
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.
Handouts:
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.
Handouts:
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.
Handouts:
Join me for an inquiry-based plankton party! View plankton on the big screen, design & race your own organism & learn interactive ways to bring the ocean into your classroom.
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.
Click here to access workshop handouts.
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).
Click here to access session handout.
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.
Click here to access handouts for this session.
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.
Click here to access workshop handouts.
Come see demonstrations and activities to bring heat transfer and climate back down to Earth! Students will formulate ideas about heat transfer, and apply them to weather and the atmosphere.
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.
Handouts:
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)!
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.
Click here to access the presenter's website hosting the workshop handouts.
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.
Click here to download handouts from PLT website.
"Significant figures" are often used, but often not understood. Students practice taking measurements using scales and equipment with different numbers of gradations, and thereby learn the meaning of "significant figures".
Click Here for Workshop Handout (.doc)
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.
Click here to access presenter's website with links to materials and resources.
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.
Click here to access handouts from presenter's website.
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.
Experience a lab science approach to 6th grade earth science. Use the understandings in sixth grade earth science to focus on lab activities that give students a rich science experience.
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.
Handouts:
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!
Handouts:
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.
Learn about fantastic online animations that help students understand DNA replication and protein synthesis. Then participate in a fabulously fun hands-on lesson that integrates meiosis and Mendelian genetics. Handouts provided.
Handouts:
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
Click here for conference handouts (10MB file)
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.
Handouts:
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.)
Click here to access workshop handouts.
This workshop is designed to help students understand the concept of law of conservation of mass, organize steps in solving stoichiometry problems, and help teachers create relevant test questions.
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.
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.
COME FEEL THE FORCE - Second grade physical science. Experience lively activities that build background knowledge for teachers and students. Identify common student misconceptions through student work and assessments.
Handouts:
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. .
Experience an engaging, inquiry-based alternative to teaching the periodic table developed by four IMSS (Integrated Middle School Science) educators. The series of activities allows students to make their own discoveries and develop practical understanding of the periodic table. Grade Level 5, 8
Handouts:
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.
Click here to access handouts from presenter's website.
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.
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!
Click here for presentation materials. (.pptx, 3.8MB)
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!
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.
Handouts (Links to Handouts Posted on Goolge Docs):
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.
Click here to download session handout.
CIRM, the state stem cell agency, with a UC Berkeley team and high school teachers, created a five-module stem cell curriculum. This workshop will walk through how the menu of activities can be fit into the existing standards.
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.
Click here for session handouts.
Global warming is a hot topic both politically and scientifically speaking. We will share our cumulative research project that we do in our general physics classes at La Salle HS.
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.
Hanouts:
Use this unit to build the foundation for erosion and deposition. An engaging/interactive slide show, materials to perform hands-on activities that demonstrate the 2 types of weathering and assessment examples.
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.
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.
Handouts:
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.
Click here for session handouts.
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.
Click here to access materials from the Popluation Connection website.
This session will look at engaging science activities and the mathematics that is embedded. We will explore the use of graphing, number sense and the common core standards for math.
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.)
Handouts:
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.
Handouts:
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.
Click to view Handouts for Presentation.
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.
Handouts:
Note from presenter:
I would be delighted if you would complete in this one-minute survey about the workshop:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CSTA2012
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).
Click here to access session handout.
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.
Click here to access handouts for this session.
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.
Handouts:
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
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.
Handouts:
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.
Handouts:
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.
Workshop Handouts:
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).
Click here to access session handout.
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.
Click here to access handouts from presenter's website.
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.
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.
Three essential concepts underlie weather phenomena: thermal energy, particles, and changes of state. See how to teach these and how these models explain weather with simple materials but deep thinking.
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.
Click here to access session handout.
We motivated high school students to learn about chemistry and botany through an integrated unit on handcrafted soap. Then we sold the soap as a science club field trip fundraiser!
Click here to access the Power Point and video.
Teach literacy through science instruction on the Water Cycle. Science teaching can support English Learners with techniques such as discussion circles, concept maps, poetry, and songs.
Click here for session handouts.
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.
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.
Click here to access presenter's website with links to materials and resources.
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.
Handouts:
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.
Bring Medieval Excitement to your classroom, and build Mini Catapults. Desk-top catapults will allow you to explain the principles of speed, velocity, and force while students are engaged and intrigued.
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.)
Handouts:
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.
The workshop will provide inquiry-based hands-on activities in teaching plants and animals. It will also address multicultural components that could be incorporated into the lessons.
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.
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'.
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.
Please contact the presenter for handouts:
Julie Strong
858-453-3440x257
Hands-on activities with grocery store plants will explore plant structure and function. Receive curriculum to build content knowledge and develop multi-disciplinary connections with edible plants.
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.
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.
Do you want students to experience science, not just memorize facts? Learn how to teach about reference points, balanced and unbalanced forces and get your students to think for themselves.
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.
Click here to download session handouts (38.5 MB).
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.
Click here to download workshop handouts (.zip, 3MB)
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.
California Geological Survey geologists will show how to access and use official coastal tsunami maps. Includes: short PowerPoint, free videos, lesson plans, hands-on and topographic activities, and other resource materials.
Darrell Reasner
Mandi Bottoms
Marian Murphy-Shaw
Grant Paul
Jonathan Osborne
Eric Muller
Almetria Vaba
Peter Hippard
Edusmart
Derek Gregg
Rick Pomeroy
The Tech Museum of Innovation
National Science Teachers Association
Society for Science & the Public
California Institute for Biodiversity
UC Online Academy
Karen Larson
Eric Muller
nwilliams14
Therese Arsenault
Kendia Herrington
elopez76
Anna D.
Jennifer Weibert
Take A Tour Of Site Features 