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LSTA NEWSLETTER LASER June 2018 | Louisiana Science Teachers Association In This Issue President’s Message 3 LSTA News/Awards 4-7 Regional News 8-14 Professional Development Opportunities and Resources 15-19 LSTA Membership Form 20
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LSTA NEWSLETTER LASER
June 2018 | Louisiana Science Teachers Association
In This Issue
President’s Message 3
LSTA News/Awards 4-7
Regional News 8-14
Professional Development Opportunities and Resources
15-19
LSTA Membership Form 20
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Patrice Mire President
Susannah Craig Vice President
Nathan Cotten Past-President
Shauna LeBlanc Secretary
Jean May-Brett Treasurer/BaP-SM SC/NSTA
Liaison [email protected]
Suzanne Ney Membership
Lydia Hill LA Science Program Coordinator
Jan Graff Awards Coordinator [email protected]
Casey McMann Region 1 Representative
Bianca Deliberto Region 2 Representative
Tammy Brouillette Region 3 Representative
Breyone Carter Region 4 Representative [email protected]
Darrell McDaniel Region 5 Representative
Pierre Lacaze Region 6 Representative [email protected]
Jeff Holcomb Region 7 Representative [email protected]
Laura Malone Region 8 Representative [email protected]
Stephen Knight LASER Editor
Nicole Cotten LSTA Web Master
Rob Wallace Social Media Coordinator
L O U I S I A N A S C I E N C E T E A C H E R S A S S O C I A T I O N
Louisiana science educators dedicated to the advancement of scientific literacy at all levels, and encouraging lifelong learning.
LSTA Board and Regional Representatives
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President’s Message from Patrice Mire
Hello Everyone!
WOW! It is really hard to believe that another school year has come and gone!! With our summer vacation now upon us, it is time to relax, renew, and revitalize!! This is also a time to reflect on the past school year and begin making plans for the next.
At the April LSTA Board meeting, the final touches were made to our next round of FREE regional workshops: “DOKtoring Your Assessments.” Teachers will learn how to utilize Webb's Depth of Knowledge and Hess's Cognitive Rigor matrix to evaluate science assessment items and to determine the complexity of science tasks. Details for the workshop in your region can be found on the LSTA web site (http://www.lsta.info/free-summer-regional-lsta-workshops-doktoring-your-assessments/) and on our Facebook page. To secure funds for instructional materials, teachers must often depend on their skills as a grant writer. Every regular classroom mathematics and science public/charter school teacher is
eligible to write an annual proposal for the state legislated Quality Science and Mathematics (QSM) funds. To assist in the application process, LSTA and LATM will be offering regional QSM Grant Writing Workshops sponsored by the QSM Council. These workshops will be designed to assist teachers and district staff who provide guidance to teachers who wish to submit proposals to QSM and the other programs available to educators by improving the quality of applications. It will support a Q&A period directly focused on the content area of the teacher and allow for small group exchanges on possible problems of earlier submissions and/or assistance in developing proposals for a 2018 QSM submission. 2018 QSM Proposals for non-consumable mathematics and science materials and equipment will be due September 10, 2018. Participants will be able to bring copies of earlier submissions or ideas for proposed 2018 QSM projects. Stay tuned for workshops to be offered near you. I want to remind everyone that it is time to submit proposals for 1-hour concurrent sessions for the 2018 LATM/LSTA Joint Conference. Concurrent session will be conducted on TUESDAY and/or WEDNESDAY, October 23rd and 24th, 2018. Proposals must be submitted via the online form by August 6, 2018. The Lead Presenter and Co-presenter(s) listed in this proposal must be registered for the conference. Registration should be completed by the Early Bird Deadline. To complete the submission form CLICK HERE or visit https://goo.gl/forms/MFQKg45ztI6AqG9a2. If there are any concerns or questions about this process, please contact Tricia Miller and Trisha Fos, [email protected].
Do you know an outstanding formal or informal science educator that you feel needs recognition for the outstanding work they do? Do you need assistance in attending the 2018 LATM/LSTA Joint Conference in Shreveport? Then, please check out our web site for a list and description of awards with the links to the nomination forms and a link to apply for a travel grant! Please take time to read through the newsletter. It contains plenty of information for educators (ex. awards, conferences, workshops, and other professional development opportunities) along with great opportunities for our students. Yours in SCIENCE EDUCATION,
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LSTA Offers Free Membership
Good News! In an effort to support teachers of science this year during the implementation of the revised LSSS, LSTA is extending a complimentary membership to ALL Louisiana teachers of science, administrators, and informal educators until October 24, 2018. All you need to do is complete and send in a membership form!! Contact your regional representative or download a form from our LSTA web site! And more good news for current members. While the LSTA Board is celebrating with the 1000 + Louisiana science teachers who attended the NSTA Area Conference in New Orleans, the board acknowledges the high cost of a national event. As a result, the Board has approved extending membership expiration dates from November of 2017 to November 2018.
Joint LATM LSTA Conference
Save the Date for
Full STEAM Ahead Joint LATM LSTA Conference
October 22-24, 2018 Shreveport Convention Center
For more information, visit one of our websites:
http://lamath.org/ http://www.lsta.info/
Louisiana Science Teachers Association
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Joint LATM LSTA Conference Call for Proposals
LATM/LSTA Concurrent Sessions (1hour) Proposal Form
Proposals for 1-hour concurrent sessions to be held on TUESDAY and/or WEDNESDAY, October 23rd and 24th, 2018 are now being accepted. Proposals must be submitted via the online form by August 6, 2018. The Lead Presenter and Co-presenter(s) listed in this proposal must be registered for the conference. Registration should be completed by the Early Bird Deadline.
To complete the submission form CLICK HERE or visit https://goo.gl/forms/MFQKg45ztI6AqG9a2
If there are any concerns or questions about this process, please contact Tricia Miller and Trisha Fos, [email protected]
Full STEAM Ahead LATM/LSTA Confrence Hotels
Hilton Shreveport 104 Market Street
Shreveport, LA 71101 (318) 698-0900
Reservation Website: https://book.passkey.com/go/2018JointConference
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Run of House 105 105 115 125
Hilton Shreveport guests will pay $8.00 for self-parking.
Sam’s Town Hotel & Casino 315 Clyde Fant Parkway Shreveport, LA 71101
(877) 429-0711
Reservation Website: http://www.samstownshreveport.com/math-science-conf
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Shreveport Downtown Hotel 102 Lake Street
Shreveport, LA 71101 (318) 222-7717
Group Name: Louisiana Math and Science Teachers Association
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Conference 2018 Dr. Debbie Silver- Extended Session Speaker
Monday October 22, 2018 Dr Debbie Silver will present a Leadership session Supporting Teacher Efficacy: Empowering teachers is key to improving student outcomes. Based on her bestselling books, Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8 and Deliberate Optimism – Reclaiming the Joy in Education, Dr. Silver offers insights into how leaders can help math and science teachers realize their best professional selves as they focus on what they can control and minimize the effects of the things they cannot. Debbie will discuss the importance of mastery, competence, and the ability to reframe life’s circumstances. Laced with her trademark candor and humor, Dr. Silver will provide valuable research information along with practical examples of putting theory into practice.
The Louisiana Association of Science Leaders is proud and honored to provide travel support to bring Dr Debbie Silver to Louisiana’s 2018 Joint Mathematics and Science Conference FULL STEAM AHEAD.
LSTA Awards and Travel Grants LSTA is now accepting applications for Awards and Travel Grants. Additional information and application forms can be found on the LSTA website (https://lsta.info).
Louisiana Association of Science Leaders (LASL) Are you a district science supervisor, science content specialist, school master teacher, Teacher Leader or science coach? Based on the Frameworks for K-12 Science Education the way science educators approach the teaching and learning process and the use of tools and resources to improve science teaching and learning has shifted. This year at the LSTA/LATM Joint Conference, the Louisiana Association of Science Leaders will provide a strand of concurrent sessions specifically of interest to those in science education leadership positions in their schools, districts, universities, or state regions. In order to make the sessions more valuable, please contact Julie’ DuBois at [email protected] with session topics of interest and if you are interested in presenting a session for science leaders.
You Be The Chemist Challenge The Chemical Education Foundation annually sponsors the “You Be The Chemist Challenge!” This is a great opportunity for individual 5th grade and middle school students who love chemistry. It is held in the spring, and is like a “spelling bee” but for chemistry! Local sites include LaTech, Southeastern Louisiana University, Greater Baton Rouge, Greater New Orleans, and DOW sites! Winners from across the local sites attend the state competition that is held at LSU. The top student winner then competes at the national competition. https://www.chemed.org/programs/challenge/ Contact Brenda Nixon, [email protected], 225-205-2680.
Shell Regional Lab Challenge LA Winners Congratulations to the 2018 Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge Competition winners! Eighteen Louisiana Science educators are winners in the inaugural year of the Shell Science Lab Challenge. To enter the Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge, K-12 science teachers located in select school districts near Shell assets were asked to describe their school’s current laboratory resources, explain why laboratory upgrade support is needed, and describe their approach to science education instruction utilizing their school’s current lab facilities. A panel of science educators then reviewed and selected the top entries. The regional winners each received a school science lab makeover support package valued at $10,000 (for the elementary and middle levels) and $15,000 (for the high school level). The winning teachers now advance to the national phase of the competition, where they will have a chance to win an additional $5,000 of support to attend the NSTA National Conference on Science Education in St. Louis, Missouri, April 11-14, 2019.
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Convent Asset Elementary Level: Heather Ordoyne Sixth Ward/Vacherie Elementary School Vacherie, LA Middle Level: Helen Martinez Gramercy Elementary and Magnet School Gramercy, LA High School Level: Janie Ryland Lutcher High School Lutcher, LA Criterion Asset Elementary Level: Lacy Behl Chamberlin Elementary Port Allen, LA Middle Level: Cynthia West Devall Middle School Port Allen, LA
High School Level: Brittany Nelson Port Allen High School Port Allen, LA Geismar Asset Elementary Level: Ashley Townsend Oak Grove Primary School Prairieville, LA Middle Level: Jennifer Gautreau Lake Elementary School (6th grade) St. Amant, LA High School Level: Jaimie McQuarn and Daniel Lambert East Ascension High School Gonzales, LA New Orleans Asset Elementary Level: Allison Tappan
Vic A Pitre Elementary School Westwego, LA Middle Level: Dawn Sevin Lacache Middle School Chavin, LA High School Level: Jessica Hudson Eleanor McMain Secondary School New Orleans, LA Norco Asset Elementary Level: Tiffany Scott Luling Elementary School Luling, LA Middle Level: Lauren Waguespack Harry Hurst Middle School Destrehan, LA High School Level: Tyler Dufrene Hahnville High School Boutte, LA
Sun Belt Science of Baseball Youth Clinic
The Sun Belt Conference and Science of Sport are excited to continue our mission of bringing STEM principles to the young people of Louisiana (and all across the world!) through the sports they love!
Lafayette area teachers and students were invited to participate in Science of Baseball events on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Students, ranging in age from late elementary to early high school, took to the field for a STEM Field Trip where they learned how to measure their strike zone, determine the perfect angle to hit a home run, calculate their fielding percentage, and discover other STEM principles in the game of baseball. 50+ young people spent time learning a
few Science of Baseball lessons, then testing their skills with some on-field projects and even watched the Ragin' Cajuns put all those concepts to play in that evening's game.
Teachers also joined in on the fun by taking part in a professional development workshop! They were provided with the Sun Belt Conference Science of Baseball curriculum, a teacher's bin full of resources and materials to accompany the projects in the lessons and also a 3 hour training on how to best implement the curriculum into their own classrooms. Thanks to the College Football Playoff Foundation, over 20 teachers also got some extra
swag before watching the tournament game that night.
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Region I
A group of Plaquemines Parish students have been participating in a series of field trips organized by the nonprofit Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL). On their third trip with "The 300", students boarded air boats and toured the Caernarvon Freshwater Diversion and the 600+ acres of wetlands built by it in the Big Mar since 1998. Students from Phoenix High School and Belle Chasse High School also attended the biennial State of the Coast Conference where they presented New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and LA Governor John Bel Edwards with a book commemorating their experiences in the field. Additionally, Belle Chasse High School student Lisa Dao won the CRCL Essay Contest and read her essay at the “Restoration on the Half Shell” event at the State of the Coast Conference. Finally, congratulations to 2017-18 eCYBERMISSION competition winners in Region 1. eCYBERMISSION is a web-based science, technology, engineering, and mathematics competition for students in grades six through nine that promotes self-discovery and enables all students to recognize the real-life applications of STEM. 2017-2018 eCYBERMISSION COMPETITION State Winners and Honorable Mentions include: Louisiana 7th Grade Winners 1st Place: UA Team 2, Ursuline Academy, New Orleans Louisiana 8th Grade Winners 1st Place: Ursuline 3-2, Ursuline Academy, New Orleans 2nd Place: Ursuline 3-5, Ursuline Academy, New Orleans LA Honorable Mention: Ursuline 7-3, Ursuline Academy, New Orleans
Please submit news for Region 1 to Casey McMann at [email protected].
Regional News
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Region II SuSTEMable Agriculture: SuSTEMable Agriculture: Integrating Concepts from Sustainable Agriculture into Environmental, Life, and Physical Science Classes, a week-long professional development program for middle- and high-school science teachers, will be offered from June 25-29 on LSU campus. Participants will receive a $1000 stipend for attending the 5 day program. Dr. Maud Walsh and Jennifer Irving of the LSU School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences are the workshop leaders. Click here for more information and to fill out the online application. Please apply as soon as possible, as time is short and space is limited. We will begin reviewing applications on June 1, 2018. For more information contact Jen Irving at [email protected] or 225-578-9005 or Dr. Maud Walsh at [email protected] or 225-578-1211. Linda Gauthier, a retired teacher from St. Louis King of France in Baton Rouge has received the Outstanding Service Award. She returns often for presentations on topics such as Lunar samples and the New Horizons mission to Pluto. Linda has also continued to participate in activities, field trips and the St. Louis King of France Coastal Roots Program.
LIGO Presents: Magnetic Forces and More – Physical Science and Inquiry Classroom Activities | Middle School Science Teachers | 12 Contact Hours. This event will take place on June 25 &June 26, 2018. Participants will explore magnets, magnetic forces, static charges, and inquiry. LIGO’s (The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) teacher workshops concentrate on inquiry, science interactives, and the physical sciences. LIGO-Science Education Center staff includes three former teachers who have been trained by San Francisco’s Exploratorium. Day 2 of the workshop is a field trip to the
LIGO Education center in Livingston. Completion of this workshop will qualify you for a stipend and priority booking for your class at the LIGO facility as well as financial support for bus transportation for your students to the Livingston, LA LIGO Science Education Center for an extraordinary hands-on science field trip experience. Register HERE.
Please submit news to your region 2 representative, Bianca Deliberto at [email protected].
Region III
6th Grade students from Montegut Middle attended the annual STEM Day at the Baby Cakes Game. Students participated in many STEM related activities, and were required to share their experience the next day at school.
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Students in Dawn Sevin’s 7th grade honors class at Lacache Middle School were required to build an operational ROV that was neutrally buoyant, maneuverable, and able to pick up objects floating at different depths. They spent time investigating ROVs, designing one on paper, building it, testing it only for buoyancy and balance at school, making modifications as needed, and then they re-tested them at LUMCON (Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium) . At LUMCON the student groups were judged on 3 different task: 1) maneuverability and buoyancy, 2) ability to operate through an obstacle course, and 3) ability to pick up as many floating rings as possible in three minutes.
Region 3 is proud to announce that Dr Shannon Lafont, NBCT, Member LSSS WritingCommittee, LSTA Distinguished Service to Science Awardee, LafourcheMSP Director and Ann Robichaux, LSTA Middle School Science Teacher of theYear, API Teacher Awardee, Project Maury Trainer will be presenting a Physical Science workshop for middle school teachers June 19-20 through Core Elements. If you interested in participating in this exciting professional development opportunity you can register using the following website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2018-core-element-summer-stem-institute-registration-45244436327
Please submit news for Region 3 to Tammy Brouillette at [email protected].
Region IV
The Lafayette Parish School System would like to thank the students, faculty, and staff for a job well done in sustaining our district recycling initiative during the 2017-2018 school year. LPSS has 30 sites currently contributing to the recycling stream keeping approximately 10.5 tons per month of paper and plastics out of the waste stream. Reports show LPSS recycled more than 83.5 tons from September through April of this year. Southside High School and Prairie Elementary lead the way for the district utilizing two recycling containers at each campus. Principal Cayce Booher said, “Setting up a recycling program on Prairie's campus was a great way to teach students about the environment and how what they do impacts it. It has also helped promote leadership skills as we have a team of students who spearhead recycling on our campus.” LPSS is the single largest commercial recycling customer for Waste Management in Acadiana and has increased recycling more than 18% since September of 2017. Congratulations to the following Lafayette Parish students for placing in the Louisiana Literary Rally in the named Science disciplines:
Vanissa S. 1st Place Environmental Science (Paul Breaux Middle School) Cole V. 3rd Place Agriscience II (Comeaux High School)
Team Phenomena 3616, composed of students from Ovey Comeaux High School, Lafayette High School and Homeschool Group, won the 2017 Regional Robotics Tournament in Kenner. Over 60 teams from around the world competed. With their win, Team Phenomena 3616 qualified to compete at the World Championship in Houston for the third time under current teacher and mentor Lisa Ranney. The team had six weeks to design, program and build their robot to overcome challenges that tested their engineering abilities.
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Thanks to the Lafayette Parish School System Science Team for contributing in the 2018 Teacher Leader Summit and sharing the district’s journey of successfully implementing the Louisiana Science Standards
Please submit news for Region 4 to Breyone Carter at [email protected].
Region V
Lova Moreno at Henry Heights Elementary School in Lake Charles teaches Kindergarten French Immersion. They use iPads to record what they are working on and then she uploads their work to the Seesaw app. Parents can then access Seesaw to see what is happening in her classroom. They raised butterflies, added host plants, then their butterflies laid little tiny perfect blue eggs! The students then watched the eggs turn into the larvae stage before morphing to the caterpillar stage, the chrysalis, and voila! back to the butterflies!
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Teachers at E.K. Key Elementary School in Sulphur held a fun-filled STEM Day for students with support from CITGO. The Sphero Obstacle Course was a highlight. Students also enjoyed a Botany Exploration among other exciting stations.
7th Grade Science teacher, Amanda LaBove and Art teacher, Jessica Woolmington, joined forces with John O’Donnell who works for Healthier Southwest Louisiana to create a teaching garden at F.K. White Middle School in Lake Charles. With support from the local Junior League and donations from Stine Lumber, the project came together brilliantly. Teachers from all content areas plan to utilize the teaching garden.
Please submit news for Region 5 to Darrell McDaniel at [email protected].
Region VI
Region 6 is holding a regional workshop on Thursday, June 21 at 9 am. The workshop will take place at the Rapides Parish School Board Media Center. This is a chance to learn new methods to increase the depth of knowledge in your assessments. This is a free workshop for members and other science educators. To enroll please contact Pierre LaCaze at [email protected] Students at Poland Junior High School recently brought the classroom outside when they learned about the Louisiana’s coastal wetlands. The students visited Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Cocodrie. At LUMCON, they participated in several hands on activities exploring the biodiversity of a coastal marsh, as well as the threats to this delicate ecosystem. Students left with a new respect for Louisiana’s wetland habitat and the role that it plays.
Poland students taking part in a field trip to LUMCON.
Please submit news for Region 6 to Pierre LaCaze at [email protected].
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Region VII
The annual Teacher Leader Summit in New Orleans got off to a great start for Bossier Parish Schools, when Elm Grove Middle School educator Spencer Kiper was announced as a finalist for the 2019 Teacher of the Year awards.
Kiper teaches STEM at EGMS and is the Bossier Parish Middle School Teacher of the Year. He advanced to win Regional Middle School Teacher of the Year and was then named a state semi-finalist.
Now, it's on to the state competition, where Kiper will be honored at a ceremony in July in Baton Rouge and Bossier Schools will be there to cheer him on!
Fifth grade students at selected Caddo schools had the awesome opportunity to participate in amazing STEM activities at STARBASE. STARBASE Louisiana, is a premier Department of Defense STEM program sponsored by the 307th Bomb Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command. Launched in 1999, the program has provided an exciting 25-hour hands-on minds-on STEM curriculum to over 27,000 area 5th grade students and their teachers.
Please submit news for Region 7 to Jeff Holcomb at [email protected] .
Region VIII
Cathi Cox-Boniol (Lincoln Parish ACHIEVE) and Missy Wooley (LA Department of Education) were part of a special training session in the newly remodeled SciTEC classroom on the Louisiana Tech University campus in order to be prepared to use the new technology for STEM-related opportunities in the coming months. Cathi was part of a panel discussion focused on P12 Engineering Education and Outreach as part of the American Society for Engineering Education/Engineering Deans Council Engineering Deans Institute held in New Orleans. Cathi then attended the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association Conference held in Atlanta, GA, where she participated in the STEM Showcase,
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represented Louisiana at the Consortium Directors meeting, presented a session on “Bridging the Gap Between Science and Engineering,” and was honored with the ITEEA “Public Understanding of Technology & Engineering Education Award.”
Congratulations to Ruston Junior High School students Landry Tucker and Joshua Thorson for bringing home the state championship and runner-up award respectively in the “Louisiana You Be the Chemist Challenge.” Landry will now represent Louisiana in the national challenge to be held in Washington DC this summer. Cathi and Missy wrapped up the 2017-18 academic year by facilitating a 3-day training experience with all k-2 teachers in Lincoln Parish on the Louisiana Student Standards for Science and incorporating STEM into the early grades classroom. Both now begin working on the MSP Project focused on the new middle grades OpenSciEd curriculum.
Please submit news to your region 8 representative, Laura Malone at [email protected]
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University of Louisiana At Lafayette Summer Scholars Residential and Commuter Program
Professional Development Opportunities and Resources
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NSTA Support for Science Teachers in Hurricane Affected Areas
This year has been tough for many living in the paths of hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The storms devastated many communities and many residents are still working to get back on their feet. Doing what we can to support science teachers and schools, NSTA is offering a number of free resources and opportunities for those living and working in areas affected by the storms.
Free subscription to the NSTA Learning Center The Learning Center is the source of unlimited professional learning resources and experiences for science educators. The center now contains more than 12,000 digital resources and opportunities, including SciPacks, Science Objects, journal articles, and more. We've also created a private forum for teachers affected by the hurricanes to connect with fellow colleagues and share ideas and opportunities.
http://www.nsta.org/publications/
Choice of a free NSTA eBook+ Professional Learning edition These engaging e-books can help you refresh your content knowledge and boost confidence before tackling a tricky topic. Each e-book is designed with images, animations, simulations, and videos all of which can be used in the classroom. The 25 content-based e-books range from Atomic Structure and Interdependence of Life to Force and Motion and the Solar System.
Free NSTA Press eBook: Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings Named a 2017 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K–12, this engaging e-book brings to life the many ways in which scientists from Galileo to Jane Goodall have used science notebooks to sketch their observations, imagine experiments, record data, or just write down their thoughts.
If you live or work in affected areas in Florida, Louisiana, or Texas, visithttp://learningcenter.nsta. org/engage2017 and follow the links to request these free resources until June 30, 2018. Enter the promo code: ENGAGE2017.
Major STEM Opp (G5-16) Sept 2018 - Student Experiments on Int’l Space Station
Student Spaceflight Experiments Program -- Mission 13 to the International Space Station (LINK TO: http://ssep.ncesse.org/2018/03/new-flight-opportunity-for-school-districts-announcing-student-spaceflight-experiments-program-ssep-mission-13-to-the-international-space-station-starting-september-2018/ Audience: School Districts Serving Grades 5-12, Informal Education Institutions, Colleges and Universities Inquiry Deadline: June 15, 2018 Contact: Dr. Jeff Goldstein, Center Director National Center for Earth and Space Science Education 301-395-0770, [email protected] The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education announces Mission 13 to the International Space Station. This opportunity gives students across a community the ability to design and propose microgravity experiments to fly in low-Earth orbit on the International Space Station (ISS). One experiment in each community will be selected to fly to ISS.
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Mission 13 is open to school districts serving grades 5-12, informal education organizations and 2- and 4-year colleges. Interested communities must inquire about the program no later than June 15, 2018. An important consideration - the expectation is that a team of educators in a participating community will engage typically 300 students, for a pre-college initiative, or 30-40 students for an undergraduate initiative, over 9 weeks of experiment design and proposal writing spanning September through November 2018. Students across the community are separated into teams of 3-5 students, each team designing and proposing a microgravity experiment, and making the case for why their experiment should be selected for flight to ISS. The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) provides a fully authentic research competition as a STEM Project Based Learning experience. Launch of the Mission
13 flight experiments is currently projected for Spring 2019.
LaSTEM
LaSTEM Launches Official Website
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The official site for LaSTEM is an online resource for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) education. It contains a wealth of information, ranging from experiential programs and STEM schools to
the latest news and developments in the STEM Workforce.
It is your one-stop shop to everything STEM in Louisiana!
Visit Here!
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About LaSTEM The Louisiana Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Advisory Council (LaSTEM) was created by Louisiana State Senator Sharon Hewitt in the 2017 Legislative Session, and is Chaired by the Louisiana Commissioner of Higher Education, Dr. Joseph C. Rallo. Under the auspices of the Board of
Regents, the Council is tasked to coordinate and oversee the creation, delivery, and
promotion of STEM education programs, to increase student interest and achievement in
the fields of STEM, to ensure the alignment of education, economic development, industry, and workforce needs, and to increase the number of women who graduate from a
postsecondary institution with a STEM degree or credential.
Framework for Leading NGSS Implementation An excellent resource for districts, is available at https://www.wested.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Framework-for-Leading-NGSS-Implementation.pdf
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Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science (TIES)
The purpose of the Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science (TIES) is to familiarize interested science teachers with the concepts of natural selection, common ancestry, and diversity in order for them to confidently cover the topics in their classrooms and fulfill their curriculum requirements. TIES introduces teachers to the most important points of evolution and natural selection with a focus on the amazing advances of genetics. The success of TIES depends upon providing ready-to-use resources that teachers can begin to use immediately. Participating teachers or student teachers leave our workshops with presentation slides, labs, guided reading assignments, an exam, and a valuable resource list for their lesson plans. TIES is funded by the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science which is a subsidiary of the Center for Inquiry. School Districts wanting to in-service or provide professional development for their teachers can contact me to set up a workshop. The full workshop usually runs about 3 hours and includes content knowledge presentation on genetics and evolution, lab simulation and explanations and a walk through of the web page were they can access lots of free, high quality information, presentations, tests, labs, and activities. Here is a link to the website for your perusal: https://richarddawkins.net/ties/ If you are interested in becoming a member of this amazing Professional Learning Community as a teacher or scientist, please take a minute to sign up on the website. If you don’t want to participate, you can still feel free to take what resources you want and use them in your classroom. Everything that we have is FREE! You can also follow us on Facebook @RDFRSTIES and Twitter @rdfrsTIES. The links are also on our website.
James Patterson Library Classroom Library Give Away I want all teachers and their students to have a great classroom library – that’s why I’m partnering with Scholastic Book Clubs and giving away $2M. Apply here: http://bit.ly/2IvCO8q
LSU’s Chem Demo Program The link below is about LSU's Chem Demo Program a science roadshow run by LSU https://cen.acs.org/articles/96/i17/Louisiana-State-Universitys-ChemDemo-program.html
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Core Elements Summer STEM Institute
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ALL CHECKS SHOULD BE MADE PAYABLE TO: LSTA
