West Central Sharing Group
Date: Wednesday October 5th
Time: Doors open at 5:45 for pizza and snacks, sharing begins at about 6:00. Should conclude about 8:00
Location: Altoona High School, 711 7th St. West. Altoona WI 54720 (Use the main entrance and follow signs to science rooms)
Meeting Details:
Part 1 – Whole group discussion. Theme: Class webpages, Web 2.0 tools, SMART board and other technology based resources/lessons.
Part 2 – Subject specific breakout sessions.
· Biology theme: ongoing research projects in the biology room (what you have been doing, what are you thinking about doing, ways to fund these projects, and motivation/support to go and do it).
· Chemistry theme: How to get through the “boring” stuff. (i.e. measurement, sig figs, notation, and other early year essentials) Ways to make it interesting and to help it “stick.”
· Physics theme: Kinematics (traditional start to the year) or non-traditional beginnings (different units/topics you begin with)
· Earth/Space Science: I don’t want to leave anyone out, but I’m not sure how much interest has come from these areas. If there is interest we will split them off as well.
PLEASE NOTE: Themes are just a starting point and suggestion. By no means are you limited to sharing something awesome that doesn’t fit in those themes. They were just picked as topics that might be of interest this time of year.
Anyone and everyone is welcome to bring something to share, no matter how big or small you think it is, but YOU DO NOT HAVE TO. Feel free to simply join us for some great science teaching discussions and networking.
Technology Notes: Altoona HS is equipped with projectors in each room and one SMART board. Projectors are connected to a desktop computer so BRING A FLASH DRIVE with any files you want to project and share. We will be creating a group Wiki for easy file sharing as well.
Please forward this information on to all your science teaching colleagues. There is sure to be something for everyone!
I look forward to meeting all of you on the 5th!
Brad Wysocki
Chemistry/Physics Teacher
Bloomer High School
