Join Steve Spangler for an intensive one-day, boot camp training that is guaranteed to change the way you teach science forever. This fast-moving seminar is for pre-k and elementary teachers who need creative science integration strategies… who are tired of trying to “squeeze” science into their already packed teaching schedule… and who want to make science even more fun and meaningful in their classroom. Stop squeezing and start integrating!
The Boot Camp tour will be in the following cities.
Houston, TX Sept. 28th
Dallas, TX Sept. 30th
Chicago, IL Oct. 5th
Washington, D.C. Oct. 7th
Orlando, FL Nov. 9th
Tampa, FL Nov. 11th
Steve will be sharing his favorite Halloween experiments at the Houston, Dallas, Chicago and Washington, D.C. workshops.
The one-day workshops are only $189 per person.
The bottom line is this – Steve Spangler will help you take the fear out of teaching science and become a more effective science teacher using simple and inexpensive materials.
Register online or call 1-800-223-9080 but do it fast. Space is limited and workshops are filling up.
Our staff along with almost 100 teachers just returned from an amazing hands-on learning experience on a cruise to Alaska.
Great teachers will go to extreme measures to get kids excited about learning, but how do you get teachers excited about teaching? You put them on a cruise ship in the middle of southeast Alaska for Science at Sea.
The cruise immerses the teachers in the environment, culture and the science of Alaska.
It’s a seven-day program where teachers across the country meet with the best naturalists in Alaska to learn about ecosystems, wildlife and how we effect the world we live in. The teacher take that experience back to the classroom.
The best teachers take time during their summer break to learn and prepare for the next school year. What has your teacher been up to this summer?
No one has to twist my arm to visit highly motivated teachers in Florida. Our Hands-on Science Boot Camp kicked off its fall tour with stops in Tampa and Orlando. We consider a boot camp to be one-day, highly intensive, roll-up-your-sleeves and get messy training with a single, strategic focus: To find new ways to get students fully engaged and excited about learning science. I’m always honored to have repeat participants from past years, and I always seek these people out and ask them this question… Why did you come back? Without fail, these returning participants are focused on some aspect of their science teaching and they’re looking for some creative ways to solve their problems.
We had a great group of returning teachers from the Brevard Public School who shared their latest plan for engaging students in their hands-on/minds-on approach to learning… and it’s called Brevard Public Schools HSSS Team (Harris Super Science Saturday Program). Science trainers at the district level target schools that could benefit from modeling and training of their students and staff. For six weeks, the students and teachers at the school show up for a few hours in the afternoon to explore
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A new report from the Consortium on Chicago School Research shows the act of increasing graduation requirements in science for high school students does not necessarily help them grow their science knowledge.
In 1997, the Chicago Public School District increased the science requirement to graduate from one year of science to three.
The policy change was in response to CPS graduates not taking enough courses to prepare them for college and to respond to the overall concern in America that students fall behind other nations in math and science.
The new policy did increase students’ science coursework. Before the change, less than half passed three or more college-prep science courses. After the change, almost all graduates passed at least three full-year science classes.
Students headed to college and earning B averages or higher, were more likely to take three years of science and succeed in them, but only 19 percent of students were in this category. That left 5 out of 6 students earning C’s or lower and graduation rates also declined after the new policy went into effect.
There’s just something amazing about dry ice – the solid that turns into a gas. Science teachers call it sublimation… kids call it amazing. Over the years I’ve presented a number of television segments about using dry ice to make Halloween even more fun – Screaming Ice, Bursting Smoke Bubbles, Spooky Apple Juice, the Crystal Bubble. This segment featured on the NBC affiliate in Denver is one of my favorites… probably because of the three little helpers.
