Coweta Science Update

GaDOE has launched a new innovative platform to provide the opportunity for science teachers and GaDOE staff to collaborate, connect and share thoughts and resources as well as encouragement for the 2020-2021 school year! The instructions below will help guide you in the creation of your account and navigating to the virtual professional learning communities that you are interested in.

Step 1: To get started, visit the GaDOE community website via this link, select "Create an Account" and follow the prompts for setting up a new account on the platform.

Step 2: Once you have completed your account you will have to wait briefly for activation/approval. Once approved, you are ready to join a group! Navigate to the "Groups" section. For science teachers and leader, there are several groups available to join: Select and join the groups you are most interested in.

To assist you as you move from the classroom or laboratory setting to online teaching, Vernier is offering the Vernier Experiment and Sample Data Library—a free collection of over 300 experiments with sample data covering many subjects that you can distribute to your students at home. Students will use the experiment data we’ve collected to perform their own analysis. You can see how to use this website with your students from the YouTube video of our science curriculum meeting last month. Click on this link and it will take you to the specific part of the video to see the Vernier Library in action.

Other data sources like this can be found in these locations:

Data Nuggets- Case study format with real data sets

PASCO Distance Learning Resources- some data files

Concord Consortium CODAP Project- raw data files for analysis

When exploring the professional learning playlist, be sure to check out the following videos focused on making science accessible for ALL students. The videos are all pre-recorded and include a resource PDF that can be used to access the links discussed in the video. The videos are accessible on the professional learning playlist or by using the following links:

• What is 3-D Science? An introduction for Special Education Teachers
• 3-D Science Supports for Struggling Learners
• Co-teaching in the 3-D Classroom

Upcoming professional learning is also included in the playlist. The Content Integration Specialists have teamed up to provide the following professional learning:

Reaching for Success: How Thoughtful Planning of Integrated Lessons Help Students Achieve Success.

Oct 14th@9-11 Registration link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/rt/3118998237379415567

Oct 23rd@1-3 Registration link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1483437307667321871

A more detailed description is available in the Fall Professional Learning Catalog available at the following link: Professional Learning Catalog Fall 2020.

To our K12 stakeholder community - educators, administrators, students, parents, and partners - while we can't be with you in person during this time, we do want to bring to you some excellent resources for learning in your home and backyard. We are working with faculty across GTRI and partnering with CEISMC to develop free online resources for you to use at home that will be available here and at CEISMC's STEAM from a Distance (see link below) and sharing links from other great resources we find such as those from partner agencies.

Check back as we also add resources, including videos, challenges, and activities, developed for K12 STEAM education by GTRI researchers and faculty.

Take care and be well. We hope you find value and fun in these STEAM education resources while learning from home.

GTRI STEM Lesson Plans and At-Home Activities K-12

NASA has activities and resources are categorized by grades K-4, 5-8, 9-12. There are even weekly webinar and free lectures for educators.

EarSketch is a free program that helps students learn to code through music. Grammy-award winning artists Ciara and Common have both provided studio-quality music tracks you can remix from home using code.

https://www.amazonfutureengineer.com/earsketch

https://www.teachers.earsketch.org/

• SENIC Nanotechnology Outreach Demonstration Guide: A detailed guide to some nanotechnology demonstrations, developed by the NNCI site at Georgia Tech. These are not full scale lessons, but rather 10 minutes activities.

• SENIC Nanotechnology Outreach Instruction Sheets: Additonal material designed to accompany the lessons contained in the Demonstration Guide.

• SENIC Size and Scale Poster

• NNCI Nanotechnology Resource Guide for Educators 2018

• Particle in a Box Game – Experience the Quantum World: Winner Students’ Choice Award at the Serious Games Competition 2015. Flyer with more information available here.

Access Mars lets you explore an 3D replica of the Martian surface, exactly as it was recorded by the Curiosity Rover. As Curiosity has travelled across Mars, it's take digital photographs with two stereoscopic camera systems. By combining and analyzing these photographs, scientists at NASA JPL have created a 3D model used to study Mars and plan future experiments. For the first time, this same 3D model is now available here for any to explore in their browser using WebVR.

Below are the codes for the Coweta Science Google Classrooms. Be sure to join for the latest info and update. Google Classroom will be the primary manner I communicate with teachers in Coweta County.

Help me to help you! Let me know who you are, where and what you teach. I'll share the directory with everyone so you can form your own learning communities. Just click on this link. Easy-peasy!

Looking for help in teaching online (or in person)? Want to master Google Classroom? Want to know how to make a Bitmoji interactive page like all of your friends? Look no further than the CCSS Professional Learning Website. Its your one stop shop for professional learning!

Please contact Dr. Donald White with any questions or comments.

Email: donald.white@cowetaschools.net
Website: https://sites.google.com/cowetaschools.net/coweta-science/home
Location: 167 Werz Industrial Boulevard, Newnan, GA 30263
Phone: 770-254-2800
Twitter: @dwhitesciguy