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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.

We have created a Lending Library of science board games - available to use in your classroom! These games are available to lend to your site through school mail. We ask that you return the materials when you are finished with them, and contribute any resources that you develop (lessons, handouts, etc) that could be used by future borrowers.

Email Sarah smoynes@sandi.net to make a request

• Welcome to Amplify Science page - introduction and getting started resources
• Most recent Amplify Science Newsletter
• Back to basics training recoreding and resources summer 2022
• Amplify Student workbooks are available in limited amount. If you are out of student workbooks we have a limited supply of workbooks to assist with restocking! Available through Destiny.
  

• You can now see all our professional learning opportunities in a new calendar page
• Starting October, we will host a monthly district wide PLC as a space for collaboration with other secondary science teachers. Read more and enroll through our calendar page.
• We want to know what PD you are interested in! Please answer this one question form

Join us for a night just for educators on Tuesday, Oct. 4! Be our guest as you are introduced to the world beneath the waves and the resources available to you and your students through Birch Aquarium at Scripps. Please note, advanced registration required. Register Here

The SD Botanic Gardens and San Diego Ag in the Classroom are hosting a Teacher Resource Fair on Oct 4 at the Botanic Garden. It is an after school event with beverages and snacks!

This is an awesome for teachers interested in getting outdoors with students to attend for instructional materials and give aways.

Registration and further info is here: https://sdaitc.org/event/2022ffhh/

The Fleet Science Center would love to welcome you and your staff to our Educator Open House!

San Diego County educators! Spend an evening at the Fleet! Tour the galleries with your colleagues, preview innovative educational programming, enjoy some snacks, and maybe even win a raffle. You can explore how you can use documentaries in the Heikoff Giant Dome Theater*, our Don’t Try This at Home assembly show and our new Global Soundscape experience in your curricula.

Fleet education professionals will share ways you can use the Fleet to enhance your STEM education lesson plans.

Thu, October 13, 2022

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PDT

Doors Open at 5:15

Highlights:

• Network with passionate science teachers.
• Enjoy refreshments.
• Preview our documentary films and school programs and our new Global Soundscapes experience
• Enter to win raffle prizes.

Register through Eventbrite

Hybrid Teachers on the Estuary at the Tijuana River NERR November 1st-3rd 4-6:30 p.m. (virtual) and November 10th in person 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Teachers on the Estuary (TOTE) is a teacher training program that explores Authentic Data Literacy and brings coastal research into the classroom.

At this training you will:

· see and experience science being done at the Tijuana River NERR and learn how you can use it to enhance your teaching.

· interact with Reserve researchers, visit wetland restoration sites, and see the long-term monitoring that is used to manage these projects (living experiments).

· find out how to integrate your training experiences with online nationwide Reserve data and our virtual and in-person monitoring-based field trips.

Click here to register by October 21st

1. Free Virtual Workshops and Podcasts (workshop poster for schools here)

2. Outdoor Learning Resources, Kits & Equipment (2-page overview here)

3. Routes to Resources Support Services

The professional association for environmental and outdoor education in California, AEOE provides programs and practitioners with the tools, resources, and expertise to ensure that future generations are equipped with the skills, knowledge, and experiences necessary to develop lifelong connections to the natural world and the commitment to sustain it. In addition to supporting the efforts listed above, AEOE provides a number of services, including a spring statewide conference, Environmental Educator Certification Program, annual awards recognizing outstanding service to the field of environmental education, and a job board for environmental education professionals.

Please help us spread the news.

• Application deadline: November 4, 2022.
• Eligible applicants: Non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations, projects of a non-profit fiscal sponsor, public schools or districts, government entities, Federally Recognized Tribes and other California Native American Tribes as defined by Governor's Executive Order B-10-11. Projects throughout California are eligible.
• Applicants may request any amount up to $50,000. At least 25% will be small grants up to $20,000. Approximately $2,000,000 will be distributed.
• WHALE TAIL® grants focus on reaching communities that have historically received fewer marine education and stewardship opportunities. We strongly encourage applicant organizations based in and composed of the communities they are engaging.

WHALE TAIL® grants support experiential education and stewardship of the California coast and its watersheds. Education and stewardship projects relating to climate change as it impacts the coast and ocean are eligible and encouraged. Shoreline cleanup and coastal habitat restoration projects that have an educational component are also eligible for these grants.

Thank you to all the owners of WHALE TAIL® License Plates and donors to the Protect Our Coast and Oceans Fund for making these grants possible. Funds were also allocated in 2021 through the California state budget allowing this year's grants to support even more great education and stewardship projects.

A walk-through of the WHALE TAIL® Grants application will be presented on October 4 at 3:30pm, including time for questions. Register for the webinar.

Download the grant guidelines and application form at www.coastal.ca.gov/whaletailgrant.

Get answers to Frequently Asked Questions about WHALE TAIL® Grants.

As always, we're putting aside the majority of our poster sets for donation. Since pre-launching the donation request list in our RISE community, we've already received more requests than we can fill! While we cannot guarantee a donation, if you'd like to be considered you can sign up here. While all educators are eligible pending availability, we will be prioritizing Title I and rural schools.

The Center for Excellence in Education’s Teacher Enrichment Program has some exciting news about this years’ Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Application window is now open and closes February 6, 2023. You can learn more about this opportunity below or see the letter attached for more details. Click here to register.

Use this new OER professional learning resource to brainstorm science and engineering phenomena that are compelling to students and their communities.

The 60-minute resource offers four categories of meaningful phenomena, a structure that helps educators incorporate a wide variety of phenomenon types into their curriculum:

1. Everyday phenomena (all students have seen or will be able to experience)
2. Contemporary scientific phenomena (related to current science investigations)
3. Societally relevant phenomena (related to science-technology intersections and social/socio-ecological justice)
4. Culturally relevant phenomena (grounded in the worlds of specific communities in culturally significant ways)

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 !

What should you do when no one laughs at your science jokes?

Keep trying until you get a ‘reaction’.

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