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Approaches to Inquiry: professional development for teachers
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Inquiry is an important content topic in science education. But inquiry is also a way of teaching and learning. In this 4-day training, teachers explore the nature of inquiry and its potential to boost students’ understanding of science content and their self-motivation as learners. Held at the Fort Worden Conference Center on the Olympic Peninsula this workshop combines methods and materials developed at the Exploratorium’s Institute for Inquiry with activities developed at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center. Learning sessions take place in classrooms, the marine lab and the natural environment. Dates: August 17-21, 2010
For Teachers, grades 5-10
$200 tuition covers instruction, instructional materials, and room & board at Fort Worden ConferenceCenter.
Credit and clock hours are available at additional cost. A fall follow-up session is planned.
Workshop components include:
- An activity comparing 3 approaches to hands-on science from a learner’s perspective, looking at how each approach affects learners and the learning process.
- Clarification of scientific process skills used by scientists and by students, with tools for assessing and improving student proficiency in those skills.
- Approaches that get students asking their own science-related questions and shifting questions that aren’t investigable into those that lead to investigations.
- A full day inquiry session focusing on natural environments of Fort Worden State Park.
- Strategies for shifting existing lessons in small ways that move responsibility from the teacher to the learner and boost acquisition of science process skills.
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ASA Statistics Workshop for Middle and High School Math and Science Teachers - A
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Dear Washington Science Teachers Association,
The American Statistical Association’s (ASA) Meeting Within a Meeting (MWM) Statistics Workshop for Mathematics and Science teachers will be held on Wednesday, August 4 and Thursday, August 5 in Vancouver, B.C, Canada in conjunction with the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM). Because prominent statistics educators will be in town for the meetings, ASA takes the opportunity to arrange a statistics workshop for teachers. The MWM statistics workshop will provide an opportunity for middle and high school teachers to enhance their knowledge and teaching of data analysis and statistics within the mathematics and science curriculum and receive hands-on activities they can use in their own classrooms.
The registration fee is $35, which includes materials and refreshments. The American Statistical Association is also going to provide lodging reimbursement assistance to help U.S. teachers attend the workshop in Vancouver, Canada. The MWM program will also include a one-day pass to attend the Statistics Education Sessions at the Joint Statistical Meetings. Optional graduate credit is also available.
More information and registration is available at www.amstat.org/education/mwm. We hope you will encourage your mathematics and science teacher colleagues to register for this unique professional development opportunity. Because space is limited, we recommend that interested teachers register as soon as possible. If you have suggestions on how I can best reach out to mathematics and science teachers in Washington with this information, please let me know.
Thank you,
Rebecca
Rebecca Nichols
K-16 Education Manager | American Statistical Association
732 N. Washington Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314
(703) 684-1221, ext. 1877 | rebecca@amstat.org | www.amstat.org/education
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Medieval Trebuchet Competition for Students
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Medieval Trebuchet Competition for Students
at The Snohomish Pumpkin Hurl
Saturday, September 18
Snohomish, WA
The Snohomish Pumpkin Hurl is now in its 3rd year and we are so excited to add a student activity to the event.
What is it?
--Teams pit their skills against other regional student teams, by hand calibrating (or fully constructing) tabletop trebuchets to hurl objects the furthest distance. Afterward students keep trebuchets in their classrooms for future demonstrations and science experiments.
--5th, 6th, 7th and 8th graders in teams of two compete for First, Second, and Third Place prizes.
--Retired Science teacher Bill Gruner of the Yakima School District will coordinate and run the competition...a demonstration of kinetic energy.
--FREE event entry for pre-registered teams. Entry requirement: 3 paragraph essay and diagram explaining how trebuchets operate.
For more information and to register your team, contact:
Debbie Carlson-Gould, Event Manager
Snohomish Festival of Pumpkins
425-308-8363
manager@FestivalofPumpkins.org
www.FestivalofPumpkins.org
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CONGRATULATIONS 2010 IMAGINE TOMORROW AWARD RECIPIENTS
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Congratulations to Heritage High School, Vancouver, on winning the grand prize award at Imagine Tomorrow 2010 as well as first prize in the Multidisciplinary Collaboration challenge! Other first place award recipients include Lake Roosevelt High School (Coulee Dam), Bellingham High School, and Tacoma School of the Arts. For a complete list of award recipients and to see a recap of this year’s event, please go to http://imagine.wsu.edu/!
Plan now to join us in Pullman, May 20-22, for Imagine Tomorrow 2011, and ask your students to begin thinking of ways to ENERGIZE THE PLANET! Tena Old Imagine Tomorrow Washington State University skeen@wsu.edu |
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OSPI Recruiting for Science Director - Teaching & Learning
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| Thursday, May 13 | | · | Research Study |
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