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Please share photos and other exciting news from your class with us! We would love to feature it here, on our site and on social media.

This month we are are happy to announce that our Science Fellows will be learning and supporting in new ways in 22-23.

At this time we would like to introduce the Fellows' areas of focus and begin to collect interest. More information on training, application process etc will be forthcoming but we want to make sure that we have enough folx interested in these areas.

Please submit this form to indicate your interest. Fellows will participate in targeted professional learning and help to support teachers in their area of focus. Unified Science Fellows are paid for their time.

• Assessment Design
• SBLGR/ PTP Pilot
• Equity
• New Teacher Support
• Multilingual Learner Support
• Curriculum Pilot - MS & HS OpenSciEd

Have leftover supplies you don't need anymore? Still holding to old supplies from a course you don't teach anymore? One teacher's leftovers are another teacher's treasure!
Look at our new BUY NOTHING page, submit the form with your un-needed supplies and look at the available supplies from other teachers!

https://sites.google.com/a/sandi.net/ngss-draft-lessons/buy-nothing-sdusd

Did you find a great curriculum resource? Participated in a great research opportunity? Do you enjoy reading one of the books we offered teachers? Had a great PLC or PD meeting that you want to recommend for other teachers?

We want to hear your recommendations and share them with other science teachers!

If you have a favorite curriculum, reading, activity, or PLC plan that you want to recommend to other teachers we want to capture a short (1-3 minutes) video of you describing it and share it with other unified science teachers!

Email tlerner@sandi.net and one of us will come to visit you and record a short clip !

Researchers from the National Science Foundation are working to develop and test performance tasks for 8th-grade students. Participating teachers will be trained and implement 3 performance tasks as unit summary experiences for their students. Participating classes will receive supplies to support the teaching of motion and sound and participating teachers will receive a stipend.

Please email tlerner@sandi.net if you are interested

If you are out of student workbooks we have a limited supply of workbooks to assist with restocking! Please email Tali @ tlerner@sandi.net for details

• Use Seek by iNaturalist to identify your tree and any living things you see on or near your tree.
  
• Use The Cornell Lab Merlin Bird ID to identify birds you hear and/or see.
  
• Looking for further inspiration to get outside this summer, consider giving San Diego Nature Bingo a try. Through the wonders of Twitter, we recently collaborated with ​Dr. Sarah McAnulty, executive director of Skype A Scientist, in the development of San Diego Nature Bingo!
  
• We invite you to share your phenomenal adventures with SDCOE on Twitter all summer long using the hashtag #sparksciencejoy.

Just in time for summer, library card holders can now check out a free vehicle day-use pass to over 200 participating state parks right at their local library. State Parks is providing the free day pass in partnership with the First Partner’s Office and the California State Library system.

The California State Library Parks Pass is valid for entry of one passenger vehicle with up to nine people. Visit CheckOutCAStateParks.com for complete details, including an interactive map with participating libraries and nearby participating state parks

The Edible Schoolyard Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting organic school gardens, kitchens, and cafeterias in public education, is offering a free, virtual workshop this summer to explore the fundamentals of edible education.

The four-day interactive program from June 21 to 24 is designed to support educators and organizations who are in the early stage of developing their garden, kitchen classrooms and curriculum. Visit the program webpage for more details and to register.

The San Diego Botanic Garden is partnering with San Diego Ag in the Classroom to bring educators a free teacher resource fair this fall.

Save the date for the Food and Flower Happy Hour Teacher Resource Fair on Oct. 4. The 4 to 6 p.m. event at the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas is open to all K-12 educators. There will be a special focus on science, biology, the environment, and other topics related to agriculture and education, as well as free giveaways. Refreshments will be served. Registration opening soon; bookmark the registration page.

Salk's Education Outreach offers free training and equipment for San Diego county middle school & high school teachers to perform biotechnology activities in their own classrooms on their own schedule. We have three types of activity kits available for free-loan to teachers who have taken our free training course: DNA extraction of wheat germ, gel electrophoresis modeled using food coloring, & PCR. You can read more about each kit here.

To help us plan the best times to host these workshops please take our brief 2 minute survey: https://forms.gle/EumCWKLMKLnRGvSA6

The Watershed Connections - Reducing Pollution and Protecting San Diego Bay teaches students about the connection between water and land as well as common storm pollutants through a virtual experience. It is a presentation designed to build student awareness of their environment and the important water quality issues we face in San Diego. Our one-hour program is available for 2nd through 6th grade students located within the San Diego Bay Watershed. This program supports Next Generation Science Standards and the CA Science Standards.

If you would like to reserve a specific date and time for your school, please respond via email or phone so we can confirm your presentation. We would love to have the opportunity to share this interactive learning tool with your students! Feel free to contact us with any questions. Please kindly share this information with fellow educators and community members who may benefit from the program.

Contact Sierra Reiss sierra.reiss@rcdsandiego.org

CLEAN is putting on their regular professional development webinar series again this spring. They host this to help teachers learn how to use the CLEAN collection to teach about climate and energy. We also have a new webinar this year highlighting climate change and mental health!

Here is a link to more information on their site: https://cleanet.org/clean/community/webinars/webinars.html

SPARK is a student organization at the University of California, San Diego. This organization is a science theater outreach program with the goal of sparking students’ interest in STEM fields at an earlier age. The program is free and due to the Covid-19 pandemic is offered remotely via Zoom, Google Classroom, etc.

Our organization designed two science shows geared towards middle school / high school students. These interactive shows will provide students with a chance to be exposed to exciting scientific-centered scenarios that will hopefully foster their interest in STEM subjects, providing more insight into the fascinating world of science!

Click here for a brochure about the shows and their alignment with Next Generation Science Standards. For additional information please visit our website at: https://sparkatucsd.weebly.com/

Where do bad rainbows go? 🌈

Prism. It's a light sentence.

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Great news - returning science teachers will now have uninterrupted Amplify access throughout the summer with new classes updating in mid-August.

New teachers will start seeing access after August 15th.

Reminder - if you are using Canvas as your Learning Management System read this Canvas Integration Help Article to learn more about syncing Amplify and Canvas