NWESD Science Announcements and Opportunities

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Join OSPI, Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association, and additional partner organizations for field experiences to highlight: tribal sovereignty, school gardens, and local ecosystem recovery projects that engage students preK-12 in hands-on, real world learning, and civic engagement. Our goal is to ensure that environmental educators are offering high-quality outdoor learning opportunities that are aligned with standards, considered best practices in environmental education, and anchored in local, relevant phenomena for student learning. 11/07 at Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association! Learn more and register on PdEnroller: https://www.pdenroller.org/ospi/catalog/163547

CBO’s are Community Based Organizations. Sometimes we hear them referred to as “informal educators”, “place based educators”, “NGO Educators”, etc. As an educational service district, we foster relationships with CBO’s who are in turn fostering relationships with our districts. Follow this link to learn more about our ClimeTime CBO Partners! In the NWESD Region, we are fortunate to have such an amazing group of CBO partners who help us reach teachers in our region!  

Teaching Outside for K-5 Educators! The Teaching for the Climate Collaborative (TCC)  's Teaching Outside workshop is designed to provide teachers and other elementary education staff with the basic skills and tools to implement experiential activities on school sites, in local parks, and in urban settings. Teachers will partake in hands-on, experiential, and discussion based learning while practicing assessing and managing risk in an outdoor classroom, participating in outdoor and climate centered NGSS aligned activities, and collaborating on ways to make outdoor lessons effective and engaging for students.* * Please note, the majority of this workshop will be held outside on school grounds. TCC are offering two different sessions for you to choose from! https://www.pdenroller.org/nwesd/catalog/163173 (THU 21 MAR 2024; Skyline Elementary in Ferndale)   https://www.pdenroller.org/nwesd/catalog/163390 (THU 18 APR 2024; Irene Reither Elementary in Meridian)   ...

Hello Wonderful Educators!   Are you interested in learning how to use science notebooks as a way to foster outdoor observation skills with your students?  If so, join PEI on for a free professional learning experience where you will practice several simple activities you can use with your students and collaborate with grade-alike peers to plan how you might integrate the content into your teaching practice.    Those who attend both sessions and complete a short asynchronous task between sessions will receive six STEM clock hours.  Register   here !   Who: K-12 Educators Dates: November 2 nd   and   16 th   from Times: 4:00 – 6:00 pm   Take Care, Amy Keiper  Hear me say it   (she/her) Northwest WA FieldSTEM Coordinator 724 Columbia Street NW, Suite 255 Olympia, WA 98501 (c) 360.464.8706 pacificeducationinstitute.org "My deep hope is that w...

  OpenSciEd is an Open Educational Resource that is freely available to educators to use with their students. One of the reasons they created this as an "open" resource was because teachers invariably  find they have to customize and tailor things for their students and communities. And that's what Localizing is all about! Join us for this introductory Zoom session where we provide an overview of the process teachers use to make meaningful community connections from their science instructional units to their students' lives.  Tuesday, November 28th 4-5:30 pm This 1.5 hour Zoom will share strategies used by science teachers in the Localizing Amplify Science Project including the process and models of work. 1.5 clock hours (1 STEM & .5 Equity)  This session will support teachers interested in learning about the localization with just an introduction, and also teachers who might like to participate in an upcoming workshop in January to work on a unit they teach. ...

  What is the Community of Practice? The OpenSciEd Community of Practice is a collaboration and professional learning space for middle school and high school teachers (as well as TOSA's supporting OSE science teaching, administrators who wish to engage in deep learning with teacher implementers/early adopters, and OSE facilitators) across Washington State working to implement OpenSciEd instructional materials and deepen their practice around these high-quality instructional materials in a collaborative environment.  This virtual learning community will share best practices, learn together, trouble-shoot issues with implementation, and share resources. The community will meet via Zoom from 4:00-5:30 pm for three sessions.  What is OpenSciEd? The OpenSciEd curriculum is an Open Educational Resource (OER) that fosters deep, engaging science learning and is the only curriculum designed for the NGSS that has had every unit rated as quality. More information is available at...