Learn how to plan and run a successful family science event at your school. Receive connections to literally hundreds of activities and other resources. (CSP)

Introduce earth science with NASA's Mission Geography program. Compare images from space and satellites to understand volcanic eruptions. Actual data helps graph, evaluate, and predict human impacts of volcanic events.

Learn how to use video to enhance your students' comprehension of motion and forces demonstrations. Equipment and software will be shown with demonstrations of motion and forces.

This hands-on workshop shows how a simple greenhouse gases lab activity can be used to show how gases behave, balance equations, predict CO2 amounts, and explain thermodynamics and climate change.

Project Learning Tree has provided free activities relating biotechnology to American forests. Do some of these hands-on activities and get access to free resources.

Try out hands-on activities for teaching about forests and watersheds. Learn how to receive free copies of a new resource, The Conifer Connection.

For teachers who wish to learn more about earthquakes, seismology, plate tectonics, and related earth science, implement exciting hands-on activities. Extensive free materials provided. Continued at 4:35-5:35.

Learn about NASA’s new solar system science and language arts program, Our Solar System Through the Eyes of Scientists. Teachers will receive free curriculum materials and learn to use them.

Comprehensive biology course focusing on marine life teaching all required California biology standards. Includes lesson plans, labs, activities, games, and web interactives/web quests. Course components tried, and test scores were phenomenal. (COSEE/SWMEA)

Science Olympiad is a competition for elementary, middle, and high school students that is fun and engaging for students. Find out how you can get involved. Hands-on.

Use polymerase chain reaction to track down the most infectious microbe on the planet. Bring current research using Wolbachia into your classroom. Engage your students in an exciting scientific adventure.

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are and will be areas of high demand in California. Panel members will describe STEM programs at their schools. Time provided for discussion. (CEEIN)

Learn how to incorporate the most popular and exciting scientific field into your classroom. Participants will receive hands-on experience solving realistic crime scene scenarios using actual forensic techniques.

In this jam-packed session, you will learn time-tested, research-based strategies and techniques designed to drastically reduce problem behavior, improve student focus, and increase instruction time.

You will collect position vs. time data from the motion of a toy car to derive the relationships between velocity, position, and time. Fun, simple, and cheap.

This is a fun performance-based assessment covering many of the 7th grade cell biology standards. Students create analogies between parts of a cell and a topic of their choosing.

The use of chemicals available in the supermarket enables students to safely explore a variety of chemical reactions in sealed zip-top bags. Appropriate for first grade and above.

Learn how online simulations help students develop experimentation skills and conceptual understanding in science. Students manipulate key variables, generate and test hypotheses, and engage in extensive “what-if” experimentation.

Participants will learn strategies to address key issues in starting or improving a biotechnology program, including funding, facilities, curriculum, student recruitment, workplace experiences, assessment, etc.

Learn how to create a mini-video that enhances your class discussions/lectures. All programs shown are free on-line or included on your computer. All levels of technology expertise welcome.

Discover what holds our universe together–GRAVITY! Attendees become inquiring scientist as they replicate Galileo’s Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment using everyday objects to discover the effects of gravity.

Interactive whiteboards allow science teachers to teach multi-sensory lessons that seamlessly integrate text, sound, video, and graphics. This session will focus on activities and lessons that encourage student participation.

Learn the science behind the food we eat. Explore trends in food safety and discover ways to encourage curiosity in investigating what happens from farm to fork. Free resources.

Discover timely, interdisciplinary, hands-on activities to help students understand the connections between human population growth and a host of environmental challenges. Receive curriculum on CD-ROM.

Eat candles, prevent water pouring out of holes, stump your students with the mystery tube. An introductory unit gets students thinking, then students design labs to keep them thinking all year-long.

Participate in activities on water properties, the amount of fresh water on earth, the water cycle, and how water shapes land from A Child’s Place in the Environment’s water unit.

Turn your classroom computer into a seismograph on the Quake Catcher Network. Learn how to use this new teaching tool that is also being used to detect earthquakes. Handouts included.

The reading apprenticeship model is a well-tested approach to adolescent science literacy instruction. Participants will practice two reading apprenticeship routines with rigorous chemistry and biology texts and discuss implementation issues.

Explore surface tension through hands-on activities that stretch students' understanding of water molecules and properties of liquids. 5Es of inquiry-based science will connect with ideas for performance and written assessments.

In the Fall of 2007, Loyola High School introduced a Physics First science curriculum grounded in inquiry instruction. Findings from a three year study indicate the effectiveness of a Physics First curriculum.

Join the Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope (GAVRT) Team where your students pair with NASA/JPL scientists and collect real-time data while operating a 34-m radio telescope from your classroom computer.

What are the geologic environmental conditions at a subduction zone? Use actual data from the JOIDES Resolution to explore drilling sites extending across the convergent boundary near Japan.

This workshop will provide teachers with strategies to assess students’ scientific reasoning by discussing an assessment that incorporates an authentic situation, its accompanying scoring rubric, and student work.

Discover hands-on activities designed to give students a comprehensive understanding of energy efficiency and renewable energy. This step-by-step program utilizes activities to engage and inspire students in these emerging technologies.

Activities introduced will include satellite construction, space bubble, revolving moon, and straw rockets. Connections to math, reading, and Discovery science clips will be implemented. Come ready for an aerospace adventure.

Make a simple and easy-to-build aluminum can steam engine for use with your forces, chemistry, or physics class. Kids love this lab and so will you…I guarantee it!

Learn how to develop a science professional learning community and inquiry-based lessons and projects. Explore technology, resources, protocols, and tools for increasing the inquiry and building 21st century science skills.

UCSB Teacher Education Program faculty and alumni share favorite discrepant events that address K-12 standards. Learn about how these events help students store key science concepts in long term memory.

“Text Study” is a cyclic writing activity that isolates a particular standard and analyzes it through the perspective of the scientific method. Students make connections between their textbooks and labs.

Participate in a spirited discussion about the signs of life, and then engage in a hands-on experiment where, like Dr. Frankenstein, we bring something dormant to life.

Invisible gases revealed! With simple hands-on activities, students can investigate carbon emission and measure greenhouse heating. Receive an activity plan and classroom media. Discussion and background include implications for Californians. (CEEIN)

Demonstrate effective science teaching strategies for all learners, particularly ELs. Instructional practices: collaborative inquiry, science talk, language and literacy in science, and contextualizing science will be modeled using animal skulls.

Actions speak louder than words as participants perform different motion scenarios, collect position and time data, and interpret the resulting graphs. High levels of student engagement; great for EL students. (CSP)

A national demonstration project developed activities to help teachers bring “sense of wonder” science to four-year-olds. Learn activities which engage pre-K children in the science of their everyday world.

Struggling with getting science into the elementary curriculum? Come and receive a week’s worth of strategies to integrate science standards with reading, writing, language arts, and math. (CSP)

Science or writing? Accomplish both at the same time. Learn various ways of helping students make student-authored science books to demonstrate learning and take home to discuss with parents. (CSP)

Increase achievement in K-12 classrooms by examining how well-designed questions and structured responses explicitly teach students to communicate in a polite and productive way. Get strategies to use Monday morning. (K-12A)

The Organized Binder improves classroom management, offers a starting routine, goal setting, reviews content standards, a time for reflection, all while organizing students and teachers.

Come explore three interactive, hands-on activities that will make the concepts of DNA structure, replication, transcription, and translation come alive for your students. Includes a "super simple" DNA extraction that you can use Monday in your classroom. (CSP)

This session will focus on color and perception, properties of light, and the physiology of the eye. Hands-on activities are from the Exploratorium Teacher Institute. All materials are designed to be effective, cheap, and easily obtainable.

Using dry ice, learn hands-on that science is about wondering why, asking questions, observing, coming up with possible explanations, and then designing investigations to test those explanations.

Universities use active learning instruction based on research demonstrating that the model promotes enhanced learning and retention. Active Learning achieves similar goals in secondary schools, better preparing students for university instruction.

Learn basic properties and principles of air and air pollution. Build a simple particulate air sampler while teaching science and math. Free materials and videos. Drawing for electric vehicle kits. (CEEIN)

An ocean acidification virtual lab involves students in an interactive lab using actual data from current research. Students look into causes, set up the experiment, and compare individual and class data.

Incorporate new place-based technologies into your classroom to enhance learning. Learn about creating media-rich, interactive, science-based maps using free tools from Google.

Hands-on activities promote energy conservation and efficiency at home and school. Receive sample materials to implement an energy management program in your classroom or school.

Create a mini-farm in a box and observe the effects of wind erosion. Then try re-creating your farm so that it is protected from wind. Learn the fascinating history of the American dustbowl and how modern agriculture tries to avoid a repeat.

Fun hands-on triangulation activity, then a web-based activity that teaches students how to read real P-S wave data in order to determine the magnitude of an earthquake. Web based homework your students will love, five-word poster, and gallery walk.

Learn how to make teaching science in your elementary classroom thought-provoking, engaging, and playful, all while building scientific literacy and growing dendrites. Hey, that was easy! (K-12A)

Use hands-on inquiry investigations to teach students the process of weathering. Your students will love doing these investigations, giving them the foundation to learn about erosion and deposition.

Gain a better understanding of the basics of using science notebooks in the classroom to help build students’ science content as well as investigation and experimentation skills.

You will learn how to diagnose misconceptions students hold, how to use hands-on activities to move students away from misconceptions, and how to modify activities so that they address misconceptions.

Weblogs encourage students to become a team of learners offering support throughout the learning process. Weblogs are inquiry-based tools that instill confidence and thorough knowledge through increased active participation.

Explore the evidence for evolution using several hands-on activities that look at evolution as it occurs over millions of years as well as very short periods of time. (K-12A)

Introduce students to genetic research and technology associated with agriculture. Provides genetic principles and tools to encourage students to think critically, creatively, and freely about genetics and agriculture.

Stop reading about breaking down compounds--do it! This session will provide you with hands-on activities on how to separate compounds into elements using everyday inexpensive supplies. Handouts included.

An overview of how to use MERLOT, search for online resources that have been submitted and reviewed by teachers, build a portfolio through content builder, and share materials.

Join Monterey Bay Aquarium educators and enable your teens to be “green” through action-oriented projects using integrated mobile technology. Help your students understand how their consumer choices impact their world.

Active participation in easily reproducible, interactive learning models. Examples of inquiry-based, hands-on lessons for the classroom that meet California state standards will be shared.

Engage in the "doing" part of science.  Explore how different levels of inquiry help students build science knowledge and inquiry skills. Teachers will support student investigations through all inquiry levels.

Monterey Bay Aquarium educators will share literacy strategies that integrate science and language arts. As participants, you’ll make a variety of fun, hands-on, standards-based activities appropriate for your PreK-5 students.

The California Geological Survey shows how to access and use new online state coastal tsunami maps. Free video, lesson plans, hands-on and topographic map activities, and resource materials provided.

Immerse yourself in a virtual world! Discover the microorganism causing a deadly zombie outbreak. Implement a cure and save the town while learning important biotechnology concepts. Participants receive free software.

Looking for a way to get your students excited about genetics? Discover engaging new ideas for using modern and classic superhero examples to teach this challenging topic.

Come learn of short 5-15 minute activities to engage your students from bell to bell.

Using read-alouds and science leveled readers, participants will see how they can reinforce their science "legally" during their English/language arts block. Participants will receive a free science book. (K-12A)

For teachers who wish to learn more about earthquakes, seismology, plate tectonics, and related earth science, implement exciting hands-on activities. Extensive free materials provided. Continuation of the 3:15-4:15 session.

The Target Science Investigation Immersions Model for developing better science field investigations through science seminars, field investigations and collaborative design wil be shared along with lesson samples and teacher reflections.

Lively hands-on activity stations designed to assist students in constructing knowledge about the laws of motion. Hand-outs include:Conceptually linked lessons, as well as book and technology resources. (K-12A)

Where do you fit in the food web? Come and survive the different ecosystems. This workshop will give you ideas to work with English and Spanish Language Learners and gifted students.