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Materials to Use in Your Classroom!
Teacher Workshops
Each
year, we develop new lessons
that teachers can put to work in their classrooms, lessons that use the
Little Shop way of making science hands-on, exciting and engaging. And
each year we share these lessons with over 300 teachers in Colorado,
neighboring states, and even other countries.
For each
of the 10 topics in this workshop, there is a
sequence of activities that follow the "5 Es": Engage,
Explore, Explain, Extend, Evaluate.
Each session begins with a series of Engage
and Explore activities. These are open-ended
hands-on investigations designed to give
participants a chance to explore, to get a feeling for the topics to be
discussed. These are described in PDF files that give an intriguing
question for each activity:
"Why is the sky purple?" or
"If hot air
rises, why is it cold in the mountains?"
The sessions then continue with a traditional lecture, the Explain
portion, with heavily illustrated animated slides, available in
PowerPoint and PDF formats below. These slides for a clear and coherent
whole, and are an excellent reference to the material of the course.
The sessions finish with an Extend
activity, a chance for participants to use the knowledge and insight
they gained. This is a crucial piece of the puzzle, to let folks apply
what they
just learned.
Finally, we finish with some form of Evaluation,
which could be as simple as discussing what worked well, or as detailed as
a written test.
Other Workshops
Korean Physics Teacher Workshop
Ram Welcome
Math, Science, and Tech Day
Shepardson Science Enrichment Classes
STEMapalooza
Super Science Saturday
Colorado Association of Science Teachers Conference
Saint Stephens Indian School Workshop
Upward Bound
American Horse School Workshop
Little Wound School Workshop
Colorado Springs Hub Teacher Workshop
Tavelli Elementary Science Enrichment
18th Annual Little Shop Open House
Southern Ute Education Center Workshop
Shiprock Schools Workshop
CMMAP Climate Conference
Weather and Climate Class for Teachers
Scottsbluff Schools Workshop
We
present a more complete set of activities as part of a
summer course called "Weather and Climate for Educators" that we teach
with our CMMAP partners. This full-week workshop earns teachers two
credits and covers all of the basic science needed to understand the
atmosphere, from conservation of energy to the nature of warm and cold
fronts. You can learn more about this workshop—and download all of our
materials—on this page.
