Science Activities Workshops

The Science & Technology Teacher Resource Center offers FREE science workshops to teachers! Join us for a few hours and add some new ideas to your science repertoire. Workshops are offered at our site or they may be scheduled at a time or place more convenient to you.
Call 619-847-5518 to schedule a time.
We have received a generous grant that allows us to offer these programs to you for FREE !

Family Math or Science Night Create excitement and get parents involved with your school.

Attend this workshop to find out HOW to organize this event at your school. We will discuss WHAT to include and WHERE to get ideas to make the event a success. This 2 hour workshop will be held at the Resource Center 5:30-7:30 on January 21, 2010.

Engineering The "E" in STEM Discover how to teach higher order thinking skills in an exciting, meaningful way by incorporating

Engineering into your curriculum. Learn how easy it is to create design challenges that engage your students and require only simple materials. This 3 hour workshop is available at the Resource Center form 5:30 -8:30 pm on February 4, 2010.

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Fundamentals of Inquiry & Assessing for Learning

From the Exploritorium these hands-on workshops examine different ways of teaching science by exploring the process skills of inquiry and learning how to gather evidence of student thinking to develop the next steps for teaching. These two workshop series may be scheduled to meet needs of your faculty.

Call: 619-847-5518
To book a
FREE Workshop!!

We can bring the workshops to your school or
your faculty can come to our facility.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Environmental Education Workshops

These award winning environmental education programs help your faculty ground science into everyday issues meaningful to your students and they are aligned to the California Content Standards!

These programs are designed to satisfy the goals of educational programs by complementing existing curricula rather than displacing or adding more concepts. They provide the tools educators need to bring the environment into the classroom and their students into the environment.

Choose the outstanding environmental program that is right for your teachers  and let us bring it to your school. 

We can tailor the workshops to meet your faculty's needs. Each workshop is 6 hours long. It can be presented as an all day workshop, a two session 3-hour workshop, or as a three session 2-hour workshop.

Upon completion of each program participants receive FREE curriculum guides packed with activities, games, and projects to use with their students.

Project Learning Tree
What do you do with a Tree Cookie?
Discover activities to increase your students’ awareness and knowledge of the world around them, as well as their place within it. Attendees will be provided a FREE 470 page Environmental Education Activity Guide. This 6 hour workshop will be held at the Resource Center from 9-3 on Saturday March 13, 2010.

Project WET
WET stands for Water Education for Teachers. Join us for an introduction to how water impacts our lives. Attendees of this 6 hour workshop will be provided with a FREE 500+ page curriculum & activity guide filled with games and activities to use with their classes. This 6 hour workshop will be held at the Resource Center from 9-3 on Saturday January 30, 2010.

Project WILD
This 6 hour workshop provides you with games and activities to use with your students that introduce them to how animal life fits into the environment. Attendees will receive a FREE  500+ page curriculum & activity guide.
This workshop will be held at the Resource Center from 9-3 on Saturday February 27, 2010.

Growing Up WILD an environmental education program for Early Childhood Education focusing on wildlife and environmental education concepts for children ages 3 to 7.

MESSENGER
Field Trip to Space
Things are happening in Space. Are you including them in your teaching? MESSENGER spacecraft will flyby Mercury on September 29, 2009. Join this exciting workshop to fine ways to create this historical event into a "Field Trip Into Space" for your classroom. Learn how to incorporate NASA's MESSENGER program materials into your classroom's study of the Solar System during this hands-on, collaborative, interactive presentation. Make a scale model of the Solar System. Make a model showing how craters are made. Try an activity to share with your students that shows how the sun emits UV light and what simple things will protect them from the UV light.

NASA MESSENGER Educator Fellow, Sharon Freeburn, will present this 3 hour workshop from 5:30-8:30 on March 25, 2010, or schedule it for your location.