The Inner Space Center (ISC) will host another virtual professional development (PD) program for Rhode Island middle and high school teachers on March 15, 2021. Details and a registration link are below. Questions? Please contact Holly Morin (holly_morin@uri.edu).
Date/Time: Monday, March 15, 2021, 9:30 – 11 am ET
Provider: Inner Space Center in partnership with Next Gen Education, LLC
Presenter: Peter McLaren, Executive Director, Next Gen Education LLC
Cost: $25 (check or credit card)
Program description: The Framework for K-12 Science Education (NRC, 2012) identifies three dimensions around which K-12 science education must be built. One of the three dimensions, crosscutting concepts, unify the study of science and engineering. Crosscutting concepts also help students structure their thinking to focus on understanding specific aspects of a phenomenon.
Crosscutting concepts provide a consistent language for educators to communicate with students. This 90-minute professional development (PD) workshop will provide educators with meaningful insights into creating consistent and clear prompts structured around crosscutting concepts that could be used within each phase of an instructional sequence. By structing prompts using the crosscutting concepts, student reasoning can be directed to key aspects of a phenomenon and how/why it occurs. This sets the stage for meaningful formative assessment opportunities.
This PD program, hosted by the University of Rhode Island’s Inner Space Center (ISC), in partnership with Next Gen Education, will provide educators with a framework of ocean science media and educational resources to support crosscutting concept investigations. The expanded program will also involve time for active discussion and idea exchange.
Registration for this PD program is $25 and space will be limited to the first 50 registrants. A waiting list will be maintained for interested individuals. A certificate of participation will be provided to those educators that participate in the live PD event and complete a brief exit survey.
Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrduirpjkiH9bI_RiY02_TX76ymXUxqldm
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.
