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IslandWood's "Localizing your OpenSciEd Middle School Unit" workshop! SAT 03 FEB 2024!

Are you looking for an opportunity to map out specific ideas for connecting your OpenSciEd science unit to your region, community, and students?

Would you like to gather in-person with your peers to brainstorm ideas together?

Do you need STEM and Equity Clock Hours?

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Join us for a FREE Saturday session (including lunch and travel) on February 3rd at the Brightwater Education Center near Woodinville.

Staff from IslandWood, NWESD and OESD will facilitate a series of short introductions to opportunities, followed by ample time to brainstorm and develop ideas for localizing your OpenSciEd Unit to your community. You will have an opportunity to expand on ideas for unit specific related phenomena, adapt unit transfer tasks and develop ideas for connections to local community assets. Leave with a plan for ideas to try out when you teach the unit with your students.

This workshop is a follow up to our online “Introduction to Localizing OpenSciEd” workshop. If you did not attend that workshop you will be provided a recording to watch before the Saturday session and can earn an additional 1.5 clock hours for doing so.

Follow this link for more information and registration:
Localizing Your OpenSciEd Middle School Science Unit – IslandWood

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