Student and Teacher Requirements
All K-3 teachers, 4th - 6th science teachers, Art, and STEAM teachers are required to review safety procedures with your classes. This has 3 steps that are required to be completed by September 5th.
All Teachers
1. Review the safety guidelines with your students.
2. Post the safety guidelines on your canvas page.
3. Inform parents that they can view the safety guidelines from your canvas page.
You do not need to send home papers to get signed unless it's your preference.
Where can I find the safety guidelines? The link is below.
4th - 6th, Art, and STEAM Teachers
By federal law you are required to take a science safety course. This is not a course in GCN. You will find it on my website. Please read the information provided and complete the quiz. This MUST be completed by Sept. 18th.
Where can I find the safety course and quiz? The link is below.
Visual Glossary
Did you know we have access to a visual glossary? Students typically remember visual cues before they will remember long definitions. You may want to try these out with your students or have them make their own visual glossary.
Where do I find it? Under the scopes tab, scroll down, and you'll see it on the left-hand side.
Inspire Discovery and Learning in PK Students, 8/2724
August 27. 2024 3:00 - 4:00
Create an environment where young children are free to learn and grow! With national interest in expanding access to Pre-K, TK, and VPK programs and numerous studies attesting to their long-term benefits, investing in early education has never been more crucial.
This edWebinar will explore how an innovative blend of play, hands-on experiences, direct instruction, and technology can enrich your teaching practices and provide developmentally appropriate, thematically integrated learning experiences. Kara Ball, author and Academic Officer at Teacher Created Materials, will address the key elements of creating a safe and engaging classroom where children learn through exploration, inquiry, and play.
In this edWebinar, attendees will:
- Discover how to create a nurturing learning environment that supports young learners
- Learn about eight Big Idea themes that form a comprehensive year-long program
- Understand how to encourage inquiry and real-life wonderings in young learners, fostering self-discovery and cross-curricular exploration
Register - If you cannot attend at the time listed, you will get access to a recording if you register.
Science Success: Setting Up Your Classroom for Engagement, Collaboration, and Community
Learn more about viewing the live presentation and the recording, earning your CE certificate, and using our new accessibility features.
Kick off the back-to-school season with best practices to encourage engagement, collaboration, and community in your science classroom. Join Tom Gantt, Director of STEM Specialists at Amplify, to learn why science is more than just experiments and lab coats. Explore how lessons that connect science to literacy, critical thinking, and the NGSS can empower students to use problem-solving skills that elevate their success in science, school, and the real world.
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to teachers, librarians, school leaders, district leaders, and education technology leaders of PreK through elementary grade levels.
Hands-On Heads-ON Science: How to Engage Students in Your Science Classroom
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Ready for active, engaged students in your science classroom? Discover why a hands-on, heads-on approach to science is a powerful way to give students the opportunity to learn science by actually doing science—and how easy it can be to implement this approach in your own classroom!
Join this edWebinar with Dr. Jesse Wilcox, Assistant Professor in Biology and Science Education, and Dr. Sophia Garcia, Instructor of Anatomy and Physiology, as they share how to implement student-centered, phenomena-driven, three-dimensional science lessons in today’s K-5 classrooms. Viewers learn how to:
- Leverage real-world phenomena to ignite curiosity
- Quickly and easily engage students with relevant science content
- Use efficient 5E science lessons with diverse learners
- Facilitate manageable, hands-on activities
- Use stations-based science lessons
You leave with fun, practical strategies you can use to make science memorable and meaningful for all learners!
Exploring Before Explaining Sparks Learning
The days of "Read the section and answer the questions at the end." are gone - or at least they should be. in the science classroom, there is a great benefit to explore before explain.
Way to Amp Up Science Assessments
A rich mix of assessments gives students creative opportunities to showcase learning—and delivers a more comprehensive picture of what they know.
Why Students Should Write in All Subjects
Writing improves learning by consolidating information in long-term memory, researchers explain. Plus, five engaging writing activities to use in all subjects.
Sink or Float
In this experiment, children are challenged to predict what will sink and what will float. They can then do the experiment with different objects and record their findings. Remember to ask them to note which predictions they got right
Water Absorption
Understanding how different items absorb water is an important concept for children to understand in real life. This experiment will help preschoolers determine what to use when drying a spill and help them understand why they can use a napkin to wipe up a drop of water, but they need a towel to dry themselves after bathing.
What melts in the sun?
This is a good way to pass the time on a hot, sunny day and teach your preschoolers about melting points. Pick a mixture of items that can melt and items that don't melt and add them to a muffin tin. You could choose items such as a cube of cheese, ice, a rock, butter, or a coin. Before starting the experiment, ask the children to predict which items they think will melt and record their answers.
Place the tray in the direct sun and wait at least 15 minutes to see what happens to the items and then revisit their predictions to see which ones they got right. Later, ask them to name other items they think would melt.
We are All Scientists
In the first in series, Dr. Ochoa’s Stellar World, of STEAM concept board books, We Are All Scientists / Todos somos científicos, Dr. Ellen Ochoa explores how children have an innate drive for discovery. Science is all around us, and children are born with a keen desire to explore, making them natural scientists.
From learning physics by juggling and grasping biology through observing a nest of fledglings, this book inspires young readers to embrace the fact that the world is their very own scientific playground. It’s true that all our little ones are born scientists, and this series is just the place to start to power their minds.
Who is a Scientist?
It turns out they are just like us! Scientists can be any race. And any gender. They can wear lab coats, jeans, or even tutus. And they are people who love to fly drones, make art, and even eat French fries!
Meet fourteen phenomenal scientists who might just change the way you think about who a scientist is. They share their scientific work in fields like entomology, meteorology, paleontology, and engineering as well as other interesting facts about themselves and their hobbies. An "if you like this, you'll like that" flowchart in the back of the book helps students identify science careers they might be interested in. Scan a QR code at the end of the book for a video of the scientists introducing themselves!
CeCe Loves Science
“Science is all about asking questions,” says Cece’s conveniently named teacher, Ms. Curie. A class assignment requires that Cece and her friend Isaac come up with a research question, and design and conduct an experiment. Their interest in animals leads them to the perfect case study: Cece’s dog, Einstein. Kids will enjoy the “What ifs?” in this witty, realistic portrayal of the scientific method in action. After reading, invite students to brainstorm questions and plan their own inquiries.
