SDUSD Science

K-5 Mystery Science is now available! See Educator Update for access

6-8 Amplify Office Hours are now available: Amplify Help & Resources

9-12 Bio, Chem, and Physics Collaboration is happening: HS Science Meeting Schedule

Science Support Office Hours: Wed 1-3pm Zoom link

Our partner Illumina wants to connect their team to your students through virtual work-based learning opportunities, and they have partnered with Skype A Scientist as the best platform to do so. If you are unfamiliar with Skype A Scientist, it’s a free program through which professional scientists across the world can sign up to be matched with classrooms to discuss various scientific questions and their careers with students.

Sign-up Instructions

To request a speaker, just go to the website, click “Get Involved,” and select “sign up as a teacher.” You must complete the form, which is where you can specify what type of professional you’d like to connect with. For example, if you’d like to hear from an Illumina professional, you can write that in the text box, and Skype A Scientist will connect you. If you already have a personal relationship with an Illumina scientist who has agreed to present to your class, you can write that person’s name in the text box as well.

If these instructions or the form seem too complicated, we’ve created a quick instructional video for how you can sign up. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/qctbWkMRFXs

Tijuana Estuary’s Teachers on the Estuary (TOTE) is going virtual this year with a five 1.5 hour session series that starts at 3:30 p.m. so you can attend after school. Content includes sessions with our Research Coordinator Dr. Jeff Crooks on estuarine ecology and using our on-line data. Tijuana River NERR educators will demonstrate the Detecting a Changing Climate virtual field trip and Environmental Literacy Coordinator Crystal Howe will discuss strategies to enhance your remote learning. See flyer for registration information or email Education Coordinator Anne Marie Tipton at annemarie.tipton@parks.ca.gov .

At this training you will:

· Learn about estuarine ecology from Tijuana River NERR’s Research Coordinator.

· Discover strategies to enhance your remote teaching.

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

· Experience the Detecting a Changing Climate Virtual Field Trip.

· Take a Virtual Tour of the Reserve.

This year the Salk Institute's 5th annual Ellen Potter Research Connections for Teachers Symposium is going virtual! Join Education Outreach on Saturday, October 24th from 10a-12p PDT for an exciting FREE virtual professional development opportunity for middle and high school science teachers. This year’s theme is “Visualizing Science: Bringing science to life in a virtual world”, focusing on how technology can be used to advance research even during a pandemic! The event will include a presentation from Salk scientist Uri Manor and a demonstration from Salk’s Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Core! Educators will then have the opportunity to collaborate to bring what they learned back to their students and explore related virtual lab simulations. Please feel free to share the attached with your colleagues!Complete the Google form here to register. Please reach out to the Education Outreach team at education@salk.edu with any questions about the event.

The Strategic Energy Innovations (SEI) team is thrilled to launch The Energy Challenge, a month-long virtual competition that rallies your students’ school spirit and hits NGSS standards through engaging energy education. Check out the details below!

Who: High school students in CA.

What: Weekly bilingual (Spanish/English) hands-on competition activities that are adaptable for distance, hybrid or in-person learning where students learn about energy while earning points for prizes. Challenges can be either synchronous or asynchronous with in-class time!

When: Monday, October 5th - Friday, October 30th. Students can join at any point during the challenge!

Where: Students can complete challenges from the comfort of their home and submit their work to the online Energy Challenge Hub.

Why: Save energy, save money, and win prizes! There is $3,000 worth in prizes being given away and the overall school will win a cash prize plus bragging rights!

Register here today!

Young Women in Biology, is hosting a new virtual student professional development program called the Discover Workshop Series to educate students, especially girls, about the various STEM sectors and careers and how they can contribute their unique skills and interests to helping solve complex global issues, from pandemics to protecting our natural resources. Students interested in science are of course encouraged to apply, but the program will also cover other roles in STEM industries such as sales, marketing, law, regulation, quality control, manufacturing, and more.

Event Details

Apply here: https://www.womeninbio.org/event/SoCalSTEMSeries before October 14th

When: the 2nd Wednesday of every month from Oct 14th, 2020 to May 12th, 2021; 6 – 7 pm PST

Who: High school students in San Diego County

*Note: This is a monthly interactive webinar series to be held on the second Wednesday of every month during the 2020-2021 school year. By registering you are committing that you will attend a minimum of six of the seven events. Please do not reserve a space that could go to somebody ready to make this time commitment.

The Stanford NGSS Assessment Project (SNAP) has two FREE online courses available to guide teams of teachers, administrators, specialists, and others in learning how to develop and use performance assessments to guide teaching and learning for NGSS. Registration is open and ongoing.

https://scienceeducation.stanford.edu/curriculum

California State Parks just launched its new Dual Language Virtual Junior Rangers Adventure video series with associated activities.

The topics addressed in this dual language—Spanish and English—video series are geology; tide pools; California Tribes: Chumash; weather and climate; native plants; and native animals. The activities can be found on the State Parks Junior Rangers webpage. Children who participate in Junior Rangers, a statewide program for ages 7-12 years old, receive a digital badge for each virtual adventure completed.

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