Science Saturdays – First Session
5 04 2008Today marked my first full-day science workshop in the STEM grant. The topic was “Earthquakes” and there is a separate page with a list of resouces from the seminar. During the workshop we plotted some seismic events, pieced together a puzzle of tectonic plates and built spaghetti/marshmallow towers that withstood a simple shake table. Thank goodness for the WWW! All this and more I put together from online resources.
I want to thank all the teachers that attended for their wonderful enthusiasm and participation. It was a pleasure and honor to work with you today. I really enjoyed the day – hope you did, too. For the PowerPoint presentation I used during the workshop, click on the link Science Session 1: Earthquakes.
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Links for the Internet Resources are on another page of this blog labelled [Quakes] – look for the tabs at the top for additional pages, or links in the sidebar under PAGES.
As it took some time to get all that paperwork done this morning, we missed sharing out our reflections of the day. So please post some comments, reflections and/or ideas here about the material presented today.
I found the course very interesting and the hands on construction of spaghetti and marshmallows was fun and informative. If there was a way to list some of the websites links in your lesson we could possible send them to ourselves or a file that could be saved to a jumpdrive would also work. Then I could add them to my Portaportal and give the teachers in the school the information. Hope your voice improves and you are feeling better.
Very interesting and informative session. Will add links to my Portaportal and share with staff at St. Elizabeth School. Looking forward to next week on weather.
I found the course to be fun and informative. I enjoyed the pre and post tests and also the hands on activities. I am looking to the next class on hurricanes.
I need time to go through everything to come up with an age appropriate lesson for my third grade class. Hope you are feeling better.
I found the first Science workshop on earthquakes to be enjoyable and informative. I will use some of the websites with my kids, and like Ed Fener, I will add them to myportaportal. I am looking forward to next week’s session on weather!
Mary Soto
I enjoyed the session on earthquakes. It was fun and very informative. The variety of activities were great. The web sites that were given will be very useful to me in my classroom teaching. The hands-on-activites such as the spaghetti and mashmallows tower, and the puzzle activities were fun and it gave us a chance to interact and learn from each other by sharing our knowledge and ideas. I am sorry that I will not be able to attend the next session on weather, but I look forward to the other three sessions and the field trip to the Hall of Science. I hope you are feeling better.