Project-based Teaching with Engineering Design workshop
Discover how engineering design and engaging, real-world projects can help students learn and apply STEM concepts. Work with experienced instructors to develop an engineering challenge thats tailored ...
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-06-16 09:00:00
Workshop: Introduction to Robotics
Find out how you can use robotics in your science and technology classrooms as you build with Lego Mindstorms NXT. Then watch your creations come alive using the interactive Lego Mindstorms Education ...
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-06-16 09:00:00
Workshop: Disaster Relief
Uncover the source of a deadly disease running rampant in the wake of a tsunami in Southeast Asia. Learn how to trace and diagnose the outbreak using microscopy, water chemistry, Gram staining and ant...
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-06-18 09:00:00
Workshop: GLOBE Weather
Identify the differences in climate and weather as you observe atmospheric phenomena. Learn GLOBE protocols for cloud cover and types; contrail cover and types; precipitation and temperature. Registra...
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-06-19 09:00:00
Workshop: Teaching and Learning with Technology
Designed to help close the technology gap that often exists between teachers and their students, this workshop will explore blogs, podcasts, online chats and a variety of Web 2.0 software applications...
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-06-23 09:00:00
Workshop: FOSS Chemistry
Understanding interactions in the natural world has captivated chemists for centuries. Learn ten FOSS investigations that bring real-world chemistry to your classroom including substances, elements, p...
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-06-25 09:00:00
Workshop: STEM Teaching Strategies
Effective STEM teaching starts with classroom strategies grounded in solid pedagogy. Learn strategies for inquiry-based teaching including Concept Development (inductive), Concept Attainment and Suchm...
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-06-26 09:00:00
Workshop: Biotech
Discover the answer to a chronic health problem plaguing a family in Africa as you use CSI techniques to get to the genetic root of the diagnosis. Learn about the structure and function of DNA, protei...
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-06-27 09:00:00
Workshop: Integrating GLOBE in the Classroom
Learn how you can build on the GLOBE protocols and integrate GLOBE into the daily classroom curriculum as you and your students contribute to this worldwide science research project. Registration is r...
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-07-08 09:00:00
Workshop: Introduction to Rocketry
Experience the fun of learning science by building your own small-scale model rockets. Design, build and launch rockets as you use hands-on learning to explore fundamental scientific concepts includin...
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-07-08 09:00:00
Workshop: GLOBE Land Cover
Mapping and monitoring the surface of Earth is critical to conserving its resources. Learn how to build a densiometer and clinometer and use GLOBE protocols for biometry, MUC classification, mapping a...
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-07-11 09:00:00
Workshop: Advanced Rocketry
Move beyond basic rocket kits in this course focused on bigger rockets capable of flying faster and carrying payloads. Learn to safely build and launch rockets with the capability of carrying on-board...
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-07-14 09:00:00
Workshop: Applied Robotics for the Classroom
Expand you construction and programming skills as you explore the full classroom potential of robotics with Lego Mindstorms NXT. Investigate STEM classroom applications for advanced programming with s...
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-07-14 09:00:00
Workshop: Green Engineering
Uncover the earth-friendly side of engineering in this workshop dedicated to exploring Environmental Engineering. From the water cycle and nitrogen cycle to filtration and flow rates, workshop partici...
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-07-14 09:00:00
Workshop: PASCO Chemistry
Learn how technology can impact the chemistry lab with new, standards-based experiments using PASCO probeware and the Xplorer GLX. Registration is required.
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-07-16 09:00:00
Workshop: Body Systems
Determine the differential diagnosis for a series of puzzling symptoms in a medical hybrid of House, M.D. and Grey’s Anatomy. This workshop covers all Biology Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (T...
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-07-17 09:00:00
Workshop: PASCO Physics
Get new ideas for including PASCO probeware into your physics classroom with the Xplorer GLX interactive science software and data analysis probes. Registration is required.
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-07-17 09:00:00
Workshop: PASCO Biology
Integrate PASCO probeware in your biology classes with hands-on training designed to inform your lab investigations with data analysis using the Xplorer GLX. Registration is required.
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-07-18 09:00:00
South Plains Math & Science Competition
Join school’s from across West Texas for the South Plains Math & Science Competition. Featuring math and science exams and a hands-on engineering design challenge, the competition is open to...
Category: Education, 09:00:00, 2008-11-15 09:00:00