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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.

This month we are are happy to announce that our Science Fellows will be learning and supporting in new ways in 22-23.

At this time we would like to introduce the Fellows' areas of focus and begin to collect interest. More information on training, application process etc will be forthcoming but we want to make sure that we have enough folx interested in these areas.

Please submit this form to indicate your interest. Fellows will participate in targeted professional learning and help to support teachers in their area of focus. Unified Science Fellows are paid for their time.

• Assessment Design
• SBLGR/ PTP Pilot
• Equity
• New Teacher Support
• Multilingual Learner Support
• Curriculum Pilot - MS & HS OpenSciEd

Check out this opportunity from SDCOE! Task design pilot for July 13-14, 8:00-2:30, virtual

Sign up here: http://sdcoe.k12oms.org/1022-218558

Have leftover supplies you don't need anymore? Still holding to old supplies from a course you don't teach anymore? One teacher's leftovers are another teacher's treasure!
Look at our new BUY NOTHING page, submit the form with your un-needed supplies and look at the available supplies from other teachers!

https://sites.google.com/a/sandi.net/ngss-draft-lessons/buy-nothing-sdusd

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 !

Researchers from the National Science Foundation are working to develop and test performance tasks for 8th-grade students. We are looking for:

• Teachers to pilot the performance task next year (training included)
• Teachers to give feedback on the tasks and video clips of test implementation (2 hr online session)

Both opportunities are paid via stipend.

Please email tlerner@sandi.net if you are interested

If you are out of student workbooks we have a limited supply of workbooks to assist with restocking! Please email Tali @ tlerner@sandi.net for details

• Use Seek by iNaturalist to identify your tree and any living things you see on or near your tree.
  
• Use The Cornell Lab Merlin Bird ID to identify birds you hear and/or see.
  
• Looking for further inspiration to get outside this summer, consider giving San Diego Nature Bingo a try. Through the wonders of Twitter, we recently collaborated with ​Dr. Sarah McAnulty, executive director of Skype A Scientist, in the development of San Diego Nature Bingo!
  
• We invite you to share your phenomenal adventures with SDCOE on Twitter all summer long using the hashtag #sparksciencejoy.

Please see the Flyer for a three-day summer workshop for 8th grade teachers on the science of sound and music. Participants get $1,000 for being a part of the learning and leave with an 8th grade instructional unit on sound as well as several web applications to explore sound.

Salk's Education Outreach offers free training and equipment for San Diego county middle school & high school teachers to perform biotechnology activities in their own classrooms on their own schedule. We have three types of activity kits available for free-loan to teachers who have taken our free training course: DNA extraction of wheat germ, gel electrophoresis modeled using food coloring, & PCR. You can read more about each kit here.

To help us plan the best times to host these workshops please take our brief 2 minute survey: https://forms.gle/EumCWKLMKLnRGvSA6

The Watershed Connections - Reducing Pollution and Protecting San Diego Bay teaches students about the connection between water and land as well as common storm pollutants through a virtual experience. It is a presentation designed to build student awareness of their environment and the important water quality issues we face in San Diego. Our one-hour program is available for 2nd through 6th grade students located within the San Diego Bay Watershed. This program supports Next Generation Science Standards and the CA Science Standards.

If you would like to reserve a specific date and time for your school, please respond via email or phone so we can confirm your presentation. We would love to have the opportunity to share this interactive learning tool with your students! Feel free to contact us with any questions. Please kindly share this information with fellow educators and community members who may benefit from the program.

Contact Sierra Reiss sierra.reiss@rcdsandiego.org

CLEAN is putting on their regular professional development webinar series again this spring. They host this to help teachers learn how to use the CLEAN collection to teach about climate and energy. We also have a new webinar this year highlighting climate change and mental health!

Here is a link to more information on their site: https://cleanet.org/clean/community/webinars/webinars.html

SPARK is a student organization at the University of California, San Diego. This organization is a science theater outreach program with the goal of sparking students’ interest in STEM fields at an earlier age. The program is free and due to the Covid-19 pandemic is offered remotely via Zoom, Google Classroom, etc.

Our organization designed two science shows geared towards middle school / high school students. These interactive shows will provide students with a chance to be exposed to exciting scientific-centered scenarios that will hopefully foster their interest in STEM subjects, providing more insight into the fascinating world of science!

Click here for a brochure about the shows and their alignment with Next Generation Science Standards. For additional information please visit our website at: https://sparkatucsd.weebly.com/

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