The ocean is rich with phenomena that are unknown to many. On January 25, 2021, from 10am-11am, URI’s Inner Space Center (ISC), in partnership with Next Gen Education, will offer a free professional development (PD) session for Rhode Island middle and high school educators. Ocean Exploration is Phenomenal: Using Inner Space Center (ISC) Resources for Phenomena-based Lessons and Units is a PD session designed to provide science educators with opportunities to identify and use ocean science phenomena in their lessons.
In this session participants will experience how phenomena are used as drivers for student engagement within three-dimensional lessons aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Using ISC media and educational resources, learn how to identify phenomena through an ocean science lens, understand best practices for student engagement and explanation of phenomena, and how phenomena drive lessons aligned to the NGSS. Phenomena-based resources will be shared.Registration is required and the program will be limited to the first 50 registrants.
- To register for this free PD event, please go here.
- The registration deadline is January 20, 2021.
A certificate of participation will be provided to those that participate in the live PD event and complete associated activities.
If you have any questions about this professional development program, please contact Holly Morin (holly_morin@uri.edu).
The ISC hopes that all teachers, students, and other impacted RI residents have been able to transition to online work and other activities as smoothly as possible. Given this shift to virtual learning, and requirements associated with this adjustment for teachers and students, the ISC is extending the application deadline for Naval Science and Technology Camp. The deadline has been extended to May 1, 2020. Notification of acceptance will be made by May 15, 2020.
Registration is now open for the ISC’s Summer 2018 session of Ocean Science Exploration Camp. This year’s camp will take place from July 23-27, 2018, at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography in Narragansett, RI, and will focus on biological oceanography. Biological oceanography is the study of marine animals, their distribution and abundance, and how they interact with and adapt to the ocean environment.
