Science Workshops
Sponsored by
The Salem State Collaborative for Math
and Science
Location: Peabody High School, 485 Lowell Street, Peabody, MA
01960
Time: 8:30
– 2:30 PM
PDP’s: 5 PDP’s per workshop attended
Cost: Collaborative Members: $30 per workshop
Non-Collaborative Members: $125 per workshop
Check Website for Collaborative Members www.salemcollaborative.org
Topics in Forensics for Middle and High School Science
Teachers Session 1
Date: November
14, 2006
Topics in Forensics for Middle and High School Science
Teachers Session 2
Date: December
1, 2006 (Not necessary to take Session 1)
Presenters: Michele Perrone, Scott Gordon, Lynnfield
Public Schools
Description:
These two independent workshops will focus on various techniques used in
forensic science that are appropriate for science classes in grades 6-10. Activities have applications in biology,
chemistry, and physics, and can be easily adapted to meet the needs of a
particular middle school science curriculum.
Participants in this workshop will perform a number of activities
including practicing such techniques as
crime scene analysis and evidence collection, fingerprinting techniques and
analysis, blood typing, blood spatter analysis, DNA fingerprinting, mold
casting and shoe print analysis, tire track analysis, and specific case
studies. Handouts, which include
background information and instructions for performing these activities, will
be provided. Information presented in
these courses applies to basic forensic science lessons. Those already teaching a forensics course at
the high school level may find the information redundant.
Preparing for the Anatomy Component of the Biology
MCAS
Date: November 3, 2006
Presenter: William Wallace, Lynnfield Public Schools
Description: This
workshop is designed to give teachers useable lesson plans as well as a basic
understanding of the anatomy and physiology principles elucidated in the
recently revised Massachusetts Science and Technology/Engineering High School
Standards. Systems covered will be
those listed in Content Standard 4:
Anatomy and Physiology and will include the digestive, circulatory,
respiratory, nervous, muscular/skeletal, and reproductive systems. If you are concerned about preparing your
students for the upcoming MCAS in biology, this course will provide you with
the lessons necessary to teach these concepts.
The course will be taught by an experienced anatomy teacher who will
provide hard copies of all materials presented and lessons discussed.
Frameworks-Linked Biology Labs and Activities
Date: November 16, 2006
Presenter: Zachary Billings, Peabody Public Schools
Description: This
workshop is designed to provide teachers with a series of frameworks-based
biology experiments and activities to be used in a high school biology or
middle school life science class.
Activities will be based around the six areas of the Massachusetts High
School Learning Standards for Biology and teachers will leave with laboratory
or classroom-based lessons for each of the areas of ecology, the chemistry of
life, genetics, evolution, anatomy, and cell biology. Handouts will be provided
for all lessons. This workshop is
appropriate for teachers in grades 7-12.
Please
register at our website www.salemcollaborative.org.
If you have questions, email Jim Kearns at registration@salemcollaborative.org
or call Jim at 781-771-4860. Make checks payable to CPMSIE. Registration
fee should be mailed within 72 hours of registration to Jim Kearns, 750G
Brookside Drive, Andover, MA 01810.
DEADLINE
to sign up for these workshops is one week prior to workshop