SD Unified Science
Special Edition Holiday Newsletter
Unified Science sparks curiosity and creativity, empowering the next generation to enact change in our local and global communities.
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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.
The Gift of Time
Please submit your name using this form and each month we will draw names. The winners will be contacted by a member of our team who will arrange a time to come cover your class so that you can plan, observe a colleague or engage in a bit of professional self care.
Introducing LEGO design in first grade
Celebration: We are learning & growing with the Title 1 Science supplies! 🎉
Sphero Robotics
LEGO BricQ & Spike Prime
Aquaponics
Secondary Maker Spaces
Learning how to use maker space 3D printers, now newly installed at 9 schools.
Elementary Maker Space
Building a habitat for our LEGO creatures. These maker space materials are now featured in 43 of our schools.
Pasco sensors
New Professional Learning Opportunities!
- 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
NEW Professional Learning session you can join:
- Introduction to Secondary Maker Spaces - part 2 - January 11th
- Pasco 101 - How to use the sensor and data logs when teaching science - January 31st
- Braiding Sweetgrass Book Club - starting January 11th
- Ambitious Science Teaching bookclub - starting January 19th
- Multi Lingual Learner support in the science classroom - February 2nd
sign up using our Professional Learning page
We want to hear your highlights and recommendations!
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 !
Science Joke! 😂
What do you call it when a biologist takes a photo of himself?
A cell-fie
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