Localizing Your Science Unit

Presenters

Jeff Ryan, Brad Street, Brian MacNevin, Kim Zemel

Description

Are you looking for an opportunity to map out specific ideas for connecting your science unit to your region, community, and students? Would you want to gather in-person with your peers to brainstorm ideas together? Do you need STEM and Equity Clock Hours?

Join us for a FREE Saturday session (including lunch and travel) on March 8th from 8:30am – 2:30pm at the Brightwater Education Center in Woodinville.

Staff from IslandWood, NWESD and OESD will facilitate a series of short introductions to opportunities, followed by ample time to brainstorm and develop ideas for localizing your unit to YOUR community. You will have an opportunity to expand on ideas for unit specific related phenomena, adapt unit transfer tasks and develop ideas for connections to local community assets. Leave with a plan for ideas to try out when you teach the unit with your students.

This workshop is a follow up to our online “Introduction to Localizing OpenSciEd for Secondary Teachers” or “Introduction to Localizing National Science Units” workshops. If you have not attended one of our Introduction to Localizing workshops you will need to watch a recording before the Saturday session and can earn an additional 1.5 clock hours for doing so.

Details

Those who turn in a reflection on a pre-reading, attend the workshop, and complete a follow-up survey will receive 6 clock hours (5 STEM and 1 Equity). Those who have not attended one of our Introduction to Localizing workshops will need to watch a recording before the Saturday session and can earn an additional 1.5 STEM clock hours for doing so. Clock hours will be free thanks to LASER grant funding.

• Participants will bring an science unit to focus on. We suggest it be one you are teaching or supporting this school year that you feel has potential for local connections (Life and Earth Science units are more ideal than others).
• Lunch will be provided.
• Funding is available for those who live more than 50 miles from Woodinville. This includes reimbursement for mileage and a hotel room for those who are confirmed for travel coverage after filling out the confirmation survey.

Additional Notes:

After completing this course, teachers will need to claim and pay for clock hours on pdEnroller.

Dates

March 1-8, 2025
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Pre-work- due March 8th by 8:30 am
Sat, March 8, 2025
8:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Brightwater Environmental Education Center

Location

Brightwater Education Center in Woodinville
22505 WA-9, Woodinville, WA 98072