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Tracy Watanabe

Water: The Essential Resource | Connected Educators - 0 views

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water professional development

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 07 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Tracy Watanabe on 07 Oct 13
     
    National Geographic and Annenberg are offering a week-long course on water (Oct 9-16), the first in a series of online courses that extend through CEM and beyond, with credit available from the University of San Diego. "Description: Water is an essential theme in social studies, science, and geography. Whether teaching about natural or human systems, water is part of the story. This open online course, framed around California's Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI), focuses on ocean and freshwater topics and strategies for teaching environmental topics in Grades 4-8. Resources and support are provided for how to use EEI to implement Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy."
Tracy Watanabe

STEM related contests and competitions | Generation YES Blog - 1 views

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stem challenge

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 23 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Trash Transformation Challenge from Tech Directions
  • The deadline is January 31, 2013
  • Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Launches 2013 Program Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision, the world’s largest K-12 science and technology competition is now accepting entries for 2013. Students research scientific principles and current technologies as the basis for designing inventions that could exist in 20 years.
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  • The deadline is January 31, 2013.
  • The Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge 2013 is Now Open! Calling all engineering, design, art, and architecture students and teachers across the globe: The 2013 Extreme Redesign contest is now accepting entries.
  • “Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge” Opens Call for Entries As global environmental challenges increase, the Siemens Foundation and Discovery Education are looking to our country’s future leaders for innovative solutions.
  • The deadline for all entries is March 5, 2013.
  • National MASTERMIND BrainTwister Challenge In the first annual MASTERMIND BrainTwister Challenge, students will be challenged to come up with their own games, puzzles, and riddles for the MASTERMIND BrainTwister Challenge. Children ages 7 through 12 are eligible and can enter online. Deadline December 31, 2012.
  • SpaceTech Engineering Design Challenge Challenge: Design a Thermal Control System for a space station in lunar orbit.
  • Call for Entries for 2012 Digital Media Teacher Innovator Awards PBS LearningMedia and The Henry Ford are sponsoring the third annual Teacher Innovator Awards, recognizing PreK-12 educators using media in new and unique ways to enhance students’ learning.
  • The deadline to apply for the awards is December 12, 2012.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 23 Oct 12
     
    Great opportunities here for authentic learning...
Tracy Watanabe

Project Overview: Square of Life -- Studies in Local and Global Environments - 2 views

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environment environmental habitat global pbl projects project collaboration

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 26 Sep 13 - No Cached
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  • Tracy Watanabe on 26 Sep 13
     
    This global collaborative project at http://ciese.org/curriculum/squareproj/ -- Registration closes SEPT 30 Driving questions: Why HERE and not THERE? Presents students with a world map and two animals/insects from different areas (EG Monarch butterfly and Australian stick insect specimens). Pose a challenging question: Why here and not there? Why there and not here? How can we find out? Register class on Square of Life, an Internet-based collaborative project that has students investigate their local environment and share information with students from around the world. Students examine a square yard of local ground and organize what they find into categories they define themselves: living and nonliving, plants and animals. Through close examination, they organize small creatures into groups by shared characteristics, and learn to discriminate between classes of animals, including insects and isopods. Theorize about the role of habitat and niche in insect distribution. Share their findings with Australian students (or students from around the glove) and report their conclusions about Why here and not there? Why there and not here?
Valinda Wells

The Math and Science of Junk Mail Project - 2 views

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shared by Valinda Wells on 03 May 11 - No Cached
  • Valinda Wells on 03 May 11
     
    This project leads 5th through high school students through an investigation into the impact of junk mail. Students use math to calculate the amount of unwanted mail received and science to determine the amount of environmental impact on the environment caused by this mail. A benefit of this project is that a basic outline of activities is included. A pitfall is that quite a bit of class time would be required to complete this project.
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