Lab-Aids Kits / SEPUP Issue-Oriented Science

Event Title	National Middle Schools Conference
Location:	Baltimore Convention Center-Baltimore, MD
Date(s):	11/4/2010 - 11/6/2010
Time:	Booth# 334

Workshop:	Writing to Learn in Science Whether recording observations or writing a lab report, research and practical experience suggests language is an essential part of science learning and that all learners develop their language skills through authentic experiences. Our work focuses on using journals in the science classroom. Journals promote written and oral literacy, reading and vocabulary development, and help identify misconceptions for more effective teaching and learning. This workshop will inspire your teaching. We will mine several authentic experiences from SEPUP Core Program activities: by constructing a wet cell battery, comparing trade-offs of incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs, and quantifying potential/kinetic energy transformations with "Drive a Nail". We will model journal set up using a structure of right-brain/left brain processing, operationalize definition development in the glossary, and move students towards owning their learning through the work they incubate in their journals. Presenter: Dick Duquin
Date/Time:	11/4/2010 10:15am-11:30am
Location:	Key Ballroom 1

Workshop:	Assessing Student Learning in the Science Classroom We will mine authentic experiences from SEPUP Program activities: by constructing a product life cycle, an alternative assessment of periodic table understandings, and using experimental evidence to make trade-offs between three industrial processes to eliminate waste. Teachers will discuss and moderate samples of actual student work, recognize the need for criteria, and practice creating assessable criteria. Finally, teachers will discuss the application of these techniques to their own work. Presenter: Dick Duquin
Date/Time:	11/4/2010
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Contact Name:	Denis Baker
Contact Phone:	614-886-0226
Contact Email:	dbaker@lab-aids.com

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Renée Carson is the Middle Level Science Specialist for the Little Rock School District. She has taught middle and junior high school for the past 30 years. She received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching in 1998. Renée has given workshop for SALI and IEY at Regional and National Conferences. She will be working with the teachers in South Carolina this summer. Rene' has trained teachers in her district in both SALI and IEY courses. Renée is leading the way in Arkansas to making the changes towards standards-based, hands-on science for the middle school student. SEPUP and Labs-Aids are making the difference for our students.

She has attended two SEPUP Leadership Conference; one in Berkeley and one in Ronkonkoma, NY. Her first opportunity to be introduced to the SEPUP material was in 1999 at Berkeley, CA.. What a dramatic change took place in her ideas about standards-based science materials!! She also began to plan how she wanted the middle school science program to take shape. Through this introduction to the material produced at the Lawrence Hall of Science, Renée began to actively pursue the best science program she could find for the middle schools in Little Rock.

The Science and Life Issue course was begun in Little Rock in the Fall, 2000. This has been an overwhelmingly successful program for all seventh grade students in Little Rock this year. The teachers were introduced to the program in August and began to implement the program when school started. Renée has continued to work with her teachers throughout the year. The students have been the beneficiaries of a great program.

In the Fall, 2001, the eighth grade students will begin Issues, Evidence, and You. Renée has worked with the eighth grades teachers throughout this school year and implementation will begin in August. The students will be prepared to continue the philosophy in the SEPUP materials, and the teachers should benefit from the preparation the students received in the seventh grade program.

Have I been pleased with the program? A most definite, “Yes!”. Parents have told me that their students have discussed science at home and have pointed out things that were never taught during their science careers. Renée will continue to work with teachers in her district as well as teachers across the country.

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