Come learn fun, educational, and teacher-friendly labs geared for 1st-3rd grade students. You'll leave with hands-on experience and worksheets to use on Monday.

Motivate students to become independent inquirers about the natural world through social action projects. Engage in activities that simulate the process, receive project components, and get ideas for integration and correlations with state standards.

This science safety workshop will provide participants with a general overview of science safety for public schools. A comprehensive set of materials will be provided to each participant.

Research shows that time spent planning "smarter" translates into improved student achievement. Explore elements of a standards-based instructional unit, using the backwards mapping model. Receive printed materials and interactive CD.

We will give a demonstration of WordSift (www.wordsift.com), an interactive vocabulary development tool. Researchers from Stanford and teachers from the SFUSD will share applications and experiences using this tool.

This is a hands-on, ready-to-use, student-friendly workshop. These standards-based manipulatives will motivate and engage your students with visual, kinesthetic, and fun activities.

Learn about affordable, engaging, and standards-based ways to teach about forces and motion by studying flight. Use hands-on methods to teach and explore the forces of lift, drag, gravity, and thrust.

Take the Hiller Aviation Museum’s most popular hands-on program home today! Build, fly, and control simple airplanes, gliders, and helicopters as your students soar with the science of flight.

ACE (Alliance for Climate Education) aims to inspire, educate, and empower high school students on climate change through a dynamic, multi-media assembly presentation.

Contour maps of all kinds, but especially weather maps are easier to understand if 3-D representations instead of 2-D are used. This makes the information they convey easier to visualize.

Learn how to use medical scenarios as an inquiry-based approach for teaching human anatomy and physiology. Participants will take part in scenarios and receive lesson plans.

Discussions, questions, tutoring, connecting, group work, inquiry, scheduling assignments, labs and tests, templates and formatting, research, current events, photos and video: ways to extend your classroom through social networking sites.

Use thinking routines and fictional case studies to improve your students' understanding of the nature of science, and develop their awareness of socioscientific issues, unethical science, and pseudoscience.

Stoichiometry problems without a calculator? What's a student to do? Help your students do mole conversions using proportional relationships between moles, grams and particles.

Inquiry-based lessons are a key to developing scientific literacy. Come and learn about the inquiry process by developing criteria to use in designing and testing your own simple parachutes.

Learn how to tap into the students’ naturally inquisitive nature and how to leverage the many collaborative resources that are available to you.

Try these engaging ways to teach graphing and data analysis across the science curriculum to improve STAR scores and scientific literacy.

This workshop explores strategies for making creative use of evidence and data to develop engaging and content-rich inquiry lessons for teaching chemistry that maximize student participation and promote understanding.

Learn how earthquake scientists create a simulated “big one” on the San Andreas fault using supercomputers. Activities and free materials will make connections to plate tectonics, faults, and earthquake preparedness.

Discover the fascinating life cycle of one of California's most common, yet hidden, animals. Students discover that a soft grub is hiding inside a hard-shelled acorn.

Get active in this workshop! Make boats, density columns, lava tubes, submarines, and much more. Learn about my Float Your Boat Challenge, and get into the human displacement chamber.

Time can be on your side! Vocabulary development, notebooks with emphasis on the conclusion, Cornell notes, GLAD strategies/word analysis utilized. Gain a wealth of strategies. Bring your camera.

Learn the ins and outs of creating a field project that connects the standards, classroom instruction, and community to significant environmental restoration projects.

This workshop is intended to help teachers effectively meet the needs of students with learning disabilities. Included will be understanding IEP goals, using accommodations, and effective methods for classroom use.

Hands-on activities using GEMS, and other materials showing the relationship between Earth and the sun, distance in relationship to other planets and stars, and data collected from several missions of NASA.  Hand-outs provided.