Workshops and Course Schedule
To register for one of the programs listed below, please complete the SMEC on-line registration form, unless otherwise indicated. For additional information please call the Center at (910) 962-3168 or send e-mail to smec AT uncw DOT edu.
Check out SMEC's SUMMER 2008
Professional Development Programs
Introductory Biotechnology
Dates: June 16-20, 2008
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: UNCW Dobo Hall.
Instructors: Dr. Sonja Pyott, UNCW Dept. Biology/Marine Biology and Mr. Gary
Cavender, South Brunswick High School
Registration Fee: $75 payable to NC Biotechnology Center
Stipend: $50/day - Breakfast and lunch provided;
lodging for out of town teachers.
Renewal Credit Offered: 3.0 CEUs
This five day, activity-based workshop will cover an introduction to biotechnology, DNA structure and function, expression and regulation, protein structure and function, transformation of E. coli, and PCR amplification. Supplemental workshop activities will address the science content and also the "Science and Technology" and "Personal and Social Perspectives" program strands in the NC Standard Course of Study. Complete information about the workshop may be found on the Biotechnology Center's Web site. Space is limited, so register now at www.ncbiotech.org/summerworkshops/. The Biotechnology Center is handling all registration for this workshop; applications submitted through the SMEC website will not be processed. If you have questions, please contact Amy Black (amy_black@ncbiotech.org).
Click here to Register: www.ncbiotech.org/summerworkshops/.
SITE: K-2 Science
Dates: August 4 - August 8, 2008, fall '08 and spring '09 TBA
Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Location: UNCW Watson School of Education, Room 223.
Instructor: Mr. Brian Brinkley, UNCW Watson School of Educ. and Ms. Ambie Hower,
NHCS
Cost to LEA: $400
for nine days. School systems should pay for participant's
registration and two substitute days. Optional but strongly encouraged,
are stipends for summer and Saturday sessions and travel funds for teachers.
Renewal Credit Offered: 5.4 CEUs
SITE: K-2 Science is a nine-day institute (five
days in the summer and four days during the 2008-2009 school year) that focuses
on the three science curriculum modules that run through the NC Science
Standard Course of Study for Grades K-2. The Institute modules
include: Earth Systems, Force & Matter, and Living Organisms.
Click
here for SITE: K-2 Science application form.
Completed application form required for registration
SITE: 3-5 Science
Dates:
July 28 - August 1, 2008, fall '08 and spring '09 TBA
Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Location: UNCW Watson School of Education, Room 223.
Instructors: Dr. Dennis Kubasko, UNCW Watson School of Educ. and Ms. Beth Brampton,
NHCS
Cost to LEA: $400
for nine days. School systems should pay for participant's registration
and two substitute days. Optional but strongly encouraged, are stipends
for summer and Saturday sessions and travel funds for teachers.
Renewal Credit Offered: 5.4 CEUs
SITE: 3-5 Science is a nine-day institute (five
days in the summer and four days during the 2008-2009 school year) that focuses
on the four major science themes that run through the NC Science Standard
Course of Study for Grades 3-5. The Institute themes include:
Rock Cycle (soil properties, composition/uses of rocks & minerals, &
landforms);
Ecology (plant growth & adaptations, animal behavior & adaptations, &
interdependence of plants & animals)
Energy/Forces/Motion (light, heat, magnetism & electricity, forces & motion)
Weather & Climate (water & water cycle, clouds & climate, global climate
change)
Click
here for SITE: 3-5 Science application form.
Completed application form required for registration
SITE: Content
Area Reading in Science And Mathematics (CARSAM)
- Grades 6-12
Dates: July 21 -
July 25, 2008
Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Location: TBA
Instructors: Ms. Heather Ertzberger
Cost to LEA: $300 for five days.
School systems should pay for participant's registration. Optional but strongly
encouraged, are stipends for summer and travel funds for teachers.
Renewal Credit Offered: 3.0 READING CEUs
SITE: CARSAM is a five-day institute that will
focus on strategies for increasing student learning in grades 6-12 by enabling
them to cope more effectively with required reading and writing. This is a
hands-on institute; all lessons will be applied directly to participants'
classroom textbooks and other reading materials. Instruction will involve
analyzing texts used in classrooms, designing lessons to help students use those
texts and other written materials more successfully. Topics include:
Before, during and after comprehension strategies---Principles of working with
struggling readers---Readability of texts and other written materials---5E
lessons and metacognitive strategies.
Click
here for SITE: CARSAM application form.
Completed application form required for registration
Middle Math Summer
Institute for Grades 6, 7 and 8
Dates:
Grade 8 - Monday, July 28: 8 am - 3 pm &
Tuesday, July 29, 8 am - noon
Grade 7 - Tuesday, July 29, 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Wednesday, July 30, 8 am - 3 pm
Grade 6 - Thursday, July 31, 8 am - 3 pm &
Friday, August 1, 8 am - noon
Location: UNCW (TBA)
Instructors: Ms. Heather Ertzberger, Ms. Elizabeth Murray
Registration: $130/session. School systems should pay for participant's
registration. Optional but strongly encouraged, are stipends and travel funds for
teachers.
Renewal Credit Offered: 1.0 CEU
In response to teacher requests, this workshop has been divided into grade-specific content sessions. Each ten hour session will focus on the mathematics curriculum competencies in the NCSCOS using activities, manipulatives and state math kits. Dr. Kelli Slaten, UNCW Dept. Mathematics & Statistics, will provide graphing calculator instruction in the 8th grade session.
SAFETY in the SCIENCE
CLASSROOM
Date: August 22, 2008
Time: 8:00 am - 3:30 pm
Location: UNCW
Instructors: Ms. Lawson Greenwood, HS Chemistry Teacher and
Mr. Stan Harts, UNCW Dir. Environ. Health
& Safety
Registration: $75
This one day workshop is targeted for high school science teachers. Its
theme is "Keep it Fun, Keep it Safe." This interactive experience will
cover the inquiry strand of the NCSCOS that requires "doing" science, the legal
side of science classroom safety, discussion of safe chemical storage, inventory
and disposal, and HANDS-ON practice using safety devices found in the typical
science lab including fire extinguishers, eyewashes, fire blankets, showers, and
sand buckets.
See our Photo Albums section for photos of previous SMEC activities.
