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Ange Mason
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Mail Code: 0505
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California 92093
Phone: (858) 534-5064
Fax: (858) 822-5443
E-mail: amason(at)ucsd.edu

Workshop Description

Come and collaborate in an environmental science initiative that incorporates sensors, IT, and an online multi-player game providing an appealing context to spark middle school girls' interest in science and engineering.

Our Goals:

• Introduce teachers and their middle school students to IT, engineering, and environmental science concepts that connect with issues in their own lives.
  
• Foster IT as both a friendly investigative tool and a facilitator for enhancing science and engineering discoveries through activities that can become part of the standard curriculum.
  
• Teach effective problem solving and collaboration techniques.
  
• Present positive role models of women and minorities in science and engineering.
  
• Provide appealing venues where girls can explore their affinity for science and engineering.
  
• Create a community of women and girls with similar interests and concerns about each other.
  
• Foster girls’ and minorities’ interest in pursuing science and engineering studies and careers.
• Support data collection and evaluation to measure the interest of teachers use of IT in their classrooms, and the interest and retention of their students in IT.

Participating teachers will:

• learn about environmental sensors
• collect data in a local environment with the sensors
• use web-based tools to view and analyze the data
• test an environmental 3D-video game
• develop your own sensor-based lessons tour UCSD labs
• enjoy an interactive & cooperative learning environment
• Collect a $2000 stipend for participation

What to Expect:

• Plenty of hands-on time to practice with both sensors and computers
• Curriculum geared toward every level of science experience
• Orientation workshop taking place on June 7 and June 21, 2008
• Laptops will be provided or you may bring your own
• Refreshments and lunch served daily during the course of the workshop

Additional opportunities for participation include:

• Informal, peer-coached teaching experiences
• Monthly teacher support meetings
• UCSD student team to help incorporate your lessons into the classroom

Registration is free. Space is limited.

Professional development provided through UCSD Extension at a cost of $55 per quarter unit. This is a five-unit course.

Full participation in this workshop and the ensuing academic year program will provide participants with a generous stipend and a set of sensor equipment for their respective classrooms.

To learn more about this workshop, please send an email to: amason (at) ucsd.edu.