Grades 3-8 Educators and Teachers Saturday, April 26
SANTA CRUZ – The Seymour Marine Discovery Center in Santa Cruz will host a “GEMS Ocean Science Educator Workshop” on Saturday, April 26, 2014 from 9 AM-3:30 PM. Join us for this timely professional development opportunity for teachers and educators of grades 3-8, presented by GEMS and MARE educators from the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley.
The morning session will feature experiences focused on Core Ideas in Ocean Sciences. Instructors will model how students gain expertise via argumentation while constructing explanations from evidence, as called for in the Next Generation Science Standards for K–12, and the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. Implications for the science and language arts classroom will be addressed.
In the afternoon, participants will have the opportunity to convene in grade-level breakouts (grades 3–5 and 6–8). The session will focus on specific NGSS-aligned ocean sciences concepts. Participants will spend time exploring what arguing from evidence looks like at different grade spans and engage in activities from the GEMS® Ocean Sciences Sequences curriculum. Sample lessons will be provided. The afternoon will also include a live invertebrate lab allowing participants to practice gathering evidence about animal adaptations and making hypotheses based on that evidence.
Cost: $50 per person. Includes lunch, all day admission to the Seymour Marine Discovery Center, free admission on a return visit, and 10% off in the Ocean Discovery Shop. To register or for more information, call the Seymour Center at (831) 459-3800, or visit http://seymourcenter.ucsc.edu/
For more information, contact Suzanne Hebert at the Seymour Center at (831) 459-5725 or shebert@ucsc.edu