SD Unified Science
January 2024
Unified Science sparks curiosity and creativity, empowering the next generation to enact change in our local and global communities.
- Science: bit.ly/sdusdscience
- STEAM: bit.ly/sdusdsteam
Please share photos and other exciting news from your class with us! We would love to feature it!
Want Sphero BOLT? Now Title 1 Schools can borrow them!
Introducing Sphero’s new pilot loan initiative — the BOLT Power Up Program — as part of our 2023 CSForAll Commitment! This allows Title I schools, non-profits, and other youth organizations to apply to borrow a Sphero BOLT Power Pack for up to six weeks, in an effort to reach more than 1,000 new students throughout 2024.
The Sphero Power Up Program was created to help level the playing field for computer science and STEM/STEAM education and to make innovative learning more attainable. Expanding access to Sphero robots, activities, and educational content gives more students, particularly those in underfunded school districts and rural or urban communities, the chance to learn computer science and STEM using tech tools.
Free Discovery Lab for High Schools!
Interested in booking a Deep Sea Debris program? Now is the time! The JEM Project is generously sponsoring any San Diego high school to participate for FREE in our Deep Sea Debris program — either as a Discovery Lab at the aquarium or an Aquarium Express Outreach at your school.
In this program for grades 9-12, your students will discover how human activity is impacting deep-sea ecosystems. They will examine the stomachs of a deep sea predator, the longnose lancetfish, and collect data about their contents to understand how pollution impacts every part of our ocean planet.
California Environmental Literacy Initiative’s (CAELI) first-ever statewide environmental literacy survey.
CAELI is pleased to announce the release of California Environmental Literacy Initiative’s (CAELI) first-ever statewide environmental literacy survey. This fifteen-minute survey aims to understand how environmental literacy is being implemented in California classrooms including identifying areas of achievement plus districts that currently lack access.
By participating in this survey, teachers and administrators will contribute valuable insights that will shape the decisions and resources provided by school districts and county offices of education.
Not only will your input support the educational experiences of students across California, but you also have a chance to win one of four $250 prizes as a token of their appreciation. Thank you in advance for your valuable contribution!
To participate, please take the survey.
Attention MS Teachers: Amplify Resources!
- Welcome to Amplify Science page - introduction and getting started resources
- Most recent Amplify Newsletter
- Caregiver Hub
- Instructional Leaders Community of Practice
- 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. Please reach out to your site Destiny contact (usually the librarian)
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 !
