Grades 3 – 8 Math, Science and Social Studies

Teacher Sharing Workshops

Sponsored by the Salem State Collaborative Project for Math, Science and Interdisciplinary Education (CPMSIE)

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

 

Time: Registration – 3:30 Workshops 3:45 – 6 PM

Location: Lynnfield High School, 275 Essex Street, Lynnfield, MA 01940

All workshops are 1 hour in length.            Session 1: 3:45 to 4:45 PM             Session 2: 5 – 6 PM

Cost:                        $5 – for Member Schools $25 for Non-Members

                        See www.salemcollaborative.org for membership list.                              

 

Workshop #1: Technology in Teaching Social Studies

Presenter: Darren Damiani, Lynnfield Public Schools

Audience: Grade 3-6 Classroom Teachers

Description: This Teacher Sharing workshop session will give you the opportunity to learn and discuss ways of using technology to help teach your social studies curriculum and the use of the Technology strands of the Massachusetts's Frameworks. We will focus on the use of Kidspiration, and Inspiration to teach students a fun way to organize their thoughts using pictures and words.  We will also focus on the use of scavenger hunts and webquests as an enrichment or assessment tool.

 

Workshop #2: What ELSE Can I do with Those Cuisenaire Rods and Pattern Blocks?

Presenter: Bob Simmons, Elementary Mathematics Consultant

Audience: Grade 3-5 Classroom Teachers

Description:  Using the Grade Three through Five Mathematics Learning Standards as a guideline, this Sharing Workshop will discuss and review all the many applications for student learning using Pattern Blocks and Cuisenaire Rods. Come share your favorite applications and learn some new ones.

 

Workshop # 3: Ideas for Teaching Simple Machines, Geology

Amy Curry, Education Director, Saugus Iron Works

Audience: Grade 3-6 Classroom Teachers

Description: The Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site represents an incredible resource through which students can study both the interrelationships of simple and compound machines in action, as well as how characteristic properties of locally found rocks helped discern their importance to the iron making process. 

 

Simple Machines at the Iron Works is a hands-on program that allows students a chance to closely examine representative tools commonly used by colonial iron workers in the labor-intensive and physically demanding iron-making process before they see many of these machines in action on the reconstructed industrial site.

 

Mystery Rocks explores the fundamentals of geology and how certain characteristics inferred the presence of the necessary materials used to make iron in the 17th century.  Extensions are made to how different rocks can tell the story of the earth’s geologic past.

 

Come and share some of your teaching materials and strategies for these two content areas. Both programs will be presented, related materials, including pre-visit and background information, will be distributed, and there will be plenty of time to ask questions and suggest ideas about these widely popular programs. 

 
 
Workshop #4: Calculator Use for Grades 5-8 Teachers.
Presenter: Cyndi O’Neil, Lynnfield Public Schools

Audience: Grade 5-8 Math Teachers

Description: This workshop will focus on the features of the TI-73 graphing calculator.
Participants will have the opportunity to share their ideas working with the TI-73 or other calculators in their classroom and participate in activities that can be incorporated into the middle school curriculum. These activities would include enrichment...pictographs, circle graphs, data organizing.

 

Workshop #5: How Can the TI-83/84 Graphing Calculator help on the MCAS Grade 7/8

Mathematics Exam

Presenter: Nancy Nichols

Audience: Grade 7/8 Math and Special Education Teachers

Description: Participants will review the grade 7/8 MCAS exam, with an emphasis on the statistics and patterns, functions and algebra strands. Patterns of test questions will be explored with a focus on how to use the technology available to find the solution to these problems.

 

Workshop #6: SmartBoards in Improving Mathematical Understanding

Presenter: Sarah Heller

Audience:  Grade 5 through 8 Math Teachers

Description: Smartboards and computer projection systems are transforming how mathematics is being taught. Take a look at how SmartNotebook, Autograph, Geometer’s Sketchpad and other software packages can help bring understanding to difficult mathematical topics.

 

Workshop #7: The Water Cycle

Presenter: Scott Gordon, Lynnfield Public Schools

Audience: Grades 3 through 6 Teachers

Description: This workshop will focus on the water cycle, in particular the various ways by which water can move through the water cycle.  Participants will be given a thorough overview of the water cycle and important phase changes will be discussed and classroom demonstrations given.  Student activities will be discussed and practiced by program participants.  These activities include an age-appropriate water cycle game, a comparison of the flow of water through various substances, and a cloud formation demonstration, among others.  The use of point-of-view guides to capture student interest and enhance writing skills will be discussed and practiced as will a water cycle play to practice reading skills.  Handouts of all materials will be provided.  This workshop addresses standard 10 in the Science and Technology/Engineering Curriculum Framework for grades 3-5 and standard 1 for grades PreK-2 in Earth and Space Science.

 

Registration Information:

Please email the following information to Jim Kearns at registration@salemcollaborative.org, mail to Jim Kearns, 750 G Brookside Drive, Andover, MA 01810 or register at our website www.salemcollaborative.org. If you have registration questions, please call Jim at 781-771-4860.

Make checks or Purchase Orders payable to CPMSIE

DEADLINE to sign up for K-8 Sharing Conference is November 22nd.