Science Professional Development Workshop Calendar

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Science Professional Development Available Ongoing on Your Own

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Resource Name	Link	Abstract
Free on-demand professional development	Amplify	Curriculum experts from UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science will lead you through an exploration of topics designed specifically for science educators like you. Once you’ve signed up, you’ll have access to three different courses! Take all three, or pick which ones you’d like to explore to earn a certificate of completion (available for each course). The available courses include: * Establishing a Culture of Figuring Out in Your Next Generation Science Classroom * Lead with Phenomena and the Three Dimensions Will Follow * Leveraging Science to Accelerate Learning
Berkeley Professional Development for Educators Calendar	University of California Berkeley	Calendar of professional Development opportunities for teachers offered by different departments on the UC Berkeley campus.
Webinar: Participatory Science Short Course	University of California Davis (UC Davis)	This three-part, online, asynchronous training introduces the concepts, benefits and methods of participatory science to extension and education practitioners. These online trainings include: 1) an introduction to the basic elements of participatory science; 2) a review of examples of how participatory science is currently being used in various UC ANR and UC Cooperative programs; and 3) creating collaborative and co-created projects, with examples from UCANR and an emphasis on ensuring meaningful participation.
Expand Your Media Literacy Skills	KQED	KQED Teach offers a collection of free, hands-on professional learning opportunities focused on Digital Media. Educators can build skills in digital storytelling, data visualization, and critical media use to support all curriculum areas. These skills allow teachers to facilitate learning environments where their students can create digital content, develop their communications and technology skills, and engage in deeper learning that encourages critical thinking.
Ocean Plastic Pollution Online Course	Monterey Bay Aquarium	This self-paced online course is designed for teachers who are ready to go in-depth into plastic pollution issues and solutions with their students. Sign up today!
Online Course: Intro to Design Challenge Learning - Self Paced	The Tech Interactive	This course will introduce you to what design challenges are and why they’re so effective in getting learners excited about STEM. We’ll walk you through the core methods for facilitating design challenges and prepare you to implement them into your learning setting. Throughout the course there will be opportunities to experience engineering as a learner and an educator. self-paced online modules will take about seven hours to complete. Once your payment is processed, you will be granted access to the course for one year.
Webinar: Deep Time: Discovering an Ancient Earth	University of Colorado, Boulder	This coursera course is offered for free and is designed for K-12 teachers to learn more about geology and deep time. it's about the origins of science and the discipline of geology itself; about why we think the earth is enormously old, and how we assess its actual age; and about the origins of our planet and its atmosphere, oceans, and crust
Science Education Graduate Certificates	Montana State University	Educators can access electronic teacher resources, discuss issues with other educators online, and participate in high-quality graduate courses all from convenient home or work locations via the Internet. An average of 15 online graduate level science and science education courses are available each semester. NTEN courses are designed to help teachers improve and enhance their understanding of science content. Courses can be taken for professional development or as part of a graduate degree program.
Webinar: Professional Development Workshops On Demand	PBS Learning Media	PBS Learning Media self paced Professional Learning Series is created for teachers - by teachers - to bring together content experts and educators from all backgrounds. With topics ranging from history to digital engagement, educators will find something they need to enhance their practice and perspective.
Seminars on Science - Online Courses for Educators	American Museum of Natural History	These six-week courses developed by Museum scientists and educators incorporate the Museum's rich resources including three-dimensional virtual specimens, videos from the field, and interactive simulations. Teachers participate in discussions and activities with the Museum's scientists and educators. Continuing education units and graduate credits are available. For more information go to http://learn.amnh.org.
Archive of recorded webinars	Carolina Biological	Find a wide variely to recorded webinars on topics such as Energy Transfer Introducing Anchoring Phenomena and Driving Question Boards Three Essential Strategies for Teaching NGSS Phenomena Think Like an Engineer Collect and Analyze Evidence Like the Pros Life Cycle and Growth and Development
School of Professional Studies	Fresno Pacific School of Professional Studies	Courses are delivered through a combination of modalities to better serve the school community's needs: printed materials and texts, audiotapes, videotapes, CD-ROM, and online distance learning. These are not on-campus courses. They may be taken any place and any time. Over 20 course offerings including: "Science for the Elementary School," "Physical Science Activities for the Primary Grades," "Astronomy: For All Ages."
Online Environmental Education for PreK-8	Project Learning Tree	Lesson plans are flexible and can be easily incorporated into existing curriculum or non-formal education programs. The activities are correlated to state and national academic standards, including Common Core, and have an emphasis on STEM. Join the 650,000 educators across the country who use PLT’s award-winning materials with their students. Independent evaluators determined PLT increases students’ knowledge, reasoning, and academic skills. 1. Self-paced online workshop (approximately 4 hours) 2. PLT’s PreK-8 Environmental Education Activity e-Guide
Webcast: Science How - Monthly programs	Smithsonian	Video Webcasts (8AM and 11AM Pacific Time.) These free, interactive, TV-style webcast programs will introduce your middle school students to core science concepts through the lens of Smithsonian research and experts, providing students with positive STEM role models and a connection to science in their lives. The shows air live twice each day, and provide opportunities for your students to interact via live polls and Q&A with the scientist. Explore the topics in the schedule by watching a webcast and using the classroom activities, lessons, readings, and other teaching resources that support each webcast program. Online Text Chats: These free, interactive, text-based web chats feature scientists who have previously appeared on a Smithsonian Science How live webcast. The text chats do not have a live video component. The chats take place twice each day, and allow students to have conversations via text with scientists about their career pathways and research at the Museum. Supplement each live chat by watching the Smithsonian Science How video of the featured scientist and using the available teaching resources before and after the chat.
Online Graduate Certificate in Advancing Science Content Knowledge	Wheelock College	Designed to complement Wheelock's Master's in Educational Studies degree program, this 12-credit certificate builds on and goes beyond the physical and life science subject area knowledge required for approval of programs leading to an Initial teacher license (when all other state requirements are met) in the following fields: Elementary (1-6), Early Childhood Teacher of Students with or without Disabilities (PreK-2), or Teacher of Students with Moderate Disabilities (PreK- 8). Each of the four courses includes examples of the application of pedagogical content knowledge, typically in the format of assigned hands-on exercises designed to construct and solidify understanding of the content, and related to teaching of inquiry and other specific science content areas with the intention of increasing teacher impact on student learning. It is the intention of the faculty who designed the courses that participants be able to demonstrate how to effectively teach specific science content knowledge upon completion of the certificate program.
Webinar: Nature Journal Educator’s Forum	John Muir Laws	Every Wednesday (Noon-1:30 pm) Learn how to teach Nature Journaling! Join the weekly discussion and idea-sharing for teachers, home-school parents, and other educators interested in teaching nature journaling skills. Each meeting will have a theme. Most of the conversation that day will revolve around this core idea but expect interesting side routes and trails. All ages and experience levels are welcome. No registration is necessary.
Self-Paced Professional Learning For Educators	Code.org	Code.org offers self-paced modules for teachers. These modules are available at no cost to any educator with a Code.org account worldwide! Through reading, viewing videos, completing interactive puzzles, and reflecting on your learning, you will develop your own understanding while preparing to teach computer science in your classroom. After completing one of these modules, participants will: * Learn how to navigate the Code.org website and teacher tools. * Gain a high level understanding of the content, tools, and pedagogy. * Prepare to begin teaching the curriculum with your students.

Science Professional By Arrangement at Your School

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Resource Name	Link	Abstract
Professional Development for your School, District, or Organization	California Academy of Sciences	The Cal Academy team can customize a professional learning sequence based on the goals of your school or district. Example topics include: Making the Most of Science Notebooks; Inquiry/Student Investigations; Science Discourse; Best Practices for virtual and/or in-person PD.
School Site Specific Trainings	UC Botanical Garden	Our Education staff offer unique tools and support for diverse school communities to transform gardens into enriched educational resources. Teachers, parents, garden educators and community members can all be a part of the process in accomplishing learning goals for children through garden-based education. Our fee-based workshops can be customized to meet your needs. Past topics include: * Botany on Your Plate curriculum * Math in the Garden curriculum * Using the Garden Environment for Afterschool Programs * School Garden Planning and How-To’s * Integrating Academics into the Garden * Nutrition from Fruits and Vegetables * Linking Garden Activities to State Standards For more information, contact the Education Program Coordinator
Whole School Science Professional Development	Community Resources for Science	CRS workshops are designed to help build knowledge, skills and confidence in science teaching. Our workshops provide teachers with techniques, resource connections, tools, and planning time. Workshops are offered to both teacher groups of ten or more and whole faculties. Whole-school workshops are offered on-site to let faculties work together as a school community to accomplish their science goals and understand student learning. We support the development of teachers who are able to plan, teach, and refine strong, subject-integrated science lessons using an inquiry-based approach to their teaching and their own professional development.
Science and Math Professional Development	The Lawrence	For 50 years, the Lawrence Hall of Science has designed, led, developed, and supported high-quality science and math professional learning experiences, PreK-16, in the San Francisco Bay Area, nationally, and internationally. We offer a variety of outstanding professional learning options for educators and leaders that help districts, schools, afterschool programs, outdoor/environmental education programs, science centers, educators, parents, and youth realize the potential of activating science and math learning, and STEM literacy for all.
STEMCorps	CuriOdyssey	CuriOdyssey STEMCorps Teacher Professional Development programs are designed to deepen educators’ comfort, competence and capacity in integrating and delivering outstanding STEM learning experiences for their BIPOC students. Learn and apply CuriOdyssey’s award-winning education methodology of creating robust student experiences that are inquiry- and project-based, learner-driven, and inherently aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards. Online ongoing support: The learning continues through a virtual community of practice. This educator centric forum provides for ongoing learning, networking and access to lessons and curriculum developed by CuriOdyssey and fellow educators. For more information email stemcorps@curiodyssey.org
Customized Workshop	Life Lab Science Program	Life Lab trainers will work with you to develop a customized workshop to meet your specific needs. Resolving issues with your garden site, working effectively with the special needs of your student population, and facilitating parent/community involvement are some of the many topics on which to focus your workshop.
Custom Professional Development	The Tech Interactive	We’ve expanded The Tech’s highly rated professional development programs and are now able to bring topics like Demystifying the new NGSS standards, Embracing the E of STEM, and Using your makerspace directly to your faculty on-site. Contact us to find out how you can integrate Design Challenge Learning across your entire curriculum with PD that’s customized to your school’s unique needs. Half-day, full-day and after-school sessions available.
Teacher Workshops - Nature Journalling	John Muir Laws	Presentation focuses on the most important aspects of using nature journals to integrate science, language arts, and art. Sessions include: * Conceptual framework for nature journaling including links to NGSS, and CCSS. * Field demonstrations of activities. * Strategies for giving feedback and evaluating student work. * Site evaluation to highlight resources for nature journaling activities.