SDSEA Presents the 17th Annual Conference to Professional Educators

On March 9-10, 2001, over 1,200 educators attended the 17^th annual SDSEA science conference. The two-day confab provided an exchange of new ideas and in-service training in workshops and featured speakers. A real favorite of conference goers remains the opportunity to shop at the booths of almost 100 exhibitors of educational materials and opportunities.

This year, teachers and exhibitors presented over 190 sessions. Topics covered were life, physical and earth science; general science; teaching and learning; technology; and literacy in science. Over 75 pre-service teachers participated in the Share-a-Thon presenting short lessons, activities and demonstrations attractive to students of all grade levels. Keynote speakers came from around the world to bring their expertise and talents to addressing topics on applying science in careers, ocean science and the Internet, use of insects in crime investigations, active and conceptual physics, and teaching literacy in science.

As in previous years, this year teachers were provided with opportunities for hands on activities and demonstrations using the ISDN line and Internet access generously provided by Pacific Bell and the labors of CUE (Computer Using Educators) members, Daryl Stermon, Todd Lanzi, and Quoc Vo. WestEd demonstrated useful science websites including the EdGateway community, the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, and the San Diego Science Alliance Resource Catalogue. San Diego Science Alliance hosted a breakfast in the Civic Theater’s Grand Salon for 100 administrators and members of the corporate science community, recognizing the importance of the interaction and cooperation of the education and corporate communities in the production of students with strong science backgrounds.

Over 190 presenters came from local and out of town communities—three came from Australia—all providing attendees with a myriad of hands on science activities for all grade levels. Additionally, featured speakers Arthur Eisenkraft, Paul Hewitt, Judy St. Leger, David Faulkner, Mark Rodrigue and Debbie Silver spoke on topics such as implementing standards in physics, teaching physics conceptually, using science in career choices, forensic entomology, ocean science and the heroism in being a teacher.

Many teachers received additional benefits of attending the conference by winning door prizes and Bingo shopping sprees. Friday and Saturday afternoons over $2,200 worth of exhibitor contributed door prizes were handed out to teachers attending the days’ final keynote speakers. Additionally, on Saturday, SDSEA provided five-$100 shopping spree certificates to the winners of our Vendor Bingo. All five teachers shopped at the exhibitors’ booths until their $100 prizes were spent on new materials for their classrooms. An additional exciting event was the giving away to a teacher at Kroc Middle School $8,000 worth of materials displayed by Fisher Scientific. Among the items were several microscopes, model skeletons, preserved specimens and assorted science kits. It was an exciting way to close a conference. Perhaps next year you may be one of the lucky winners.

THANKS TO THE CONFERENCE CREW

Special kudos and thanks are extended to all those who worked diligently and tirelessly to make this conference so successful, especially members of the conference committee, presenters, student hosts, members of CUE, Pacific Bell, San Diego Science Alliance, and SDSEA Board members, all of whom have donated countless hours to make another conferences go like clockwork. Thanks to all. We hope to repeat this performance for you again in 2003 after taking a one-year hiatus for the NSTA national convention in San Diego in 2002.

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Exhibitors Provide a Big Plus to Conference Attendees

By Chuck Abel

The "Shopping"
One part of each successful science conference is the exhibits area. It's a place where you not only can "shop 'til you drop" for fun additions to your classroom, but learn about new services, products and techniques to help you involve students in learning science. Here is one place to find more material in one place at one time than you'll see this side of an NSTA national convention. Seeing services offered, equipment, kit components, or material samples first hand, being able to ask questions of the experts, and making personal contact with a knowledgeable resource beats paging through catalogs any day. As to their wares, this is the place to get your questions answered!

Beyond The "shopping"
Those folks in the exhibit booths are most often individuals who have come from classrooms and have years of experience and successful teaching ideas to share in addition to the products they offer. They also travel and meet with dozens if not hundreds of science teachers, just like you, to problem solve with them about meeting needs. They
pick up dozens of ideas from programs they see or hear about. For those not in the market for new "stuff" the company representatives will problem solve with you about what you already have, and can put you in contact with someone who can solve your problem if they can't, on the spot. In short they are a valuable resource to tap.

Your role in problem solving and inspiration
Your role in going through the conference exhibits area is that of a problem solver. It ultimately is up to you to match your needs and those of your students to what exhibitors offer. Or, if not finding a match, to seek a company's resources in solving a problem for which a solution doesn't yet exist. This last piece of creating, triggers the inspiration which creates improved products. Of course the bottom line for the companies represented in these booths is to get you to use their program, product, or service.

Philanthropy
One of the ways a company gets you familiar with their products or services is through giveaways. Fortunately for the SDSEA conference and its attendees our exhibiting companies have been generous with door prizes. This year we gave away a $400 reflecting telescope with computer robotic controls, a 20 gallon "River Tank" ecosystem worth $400, a stereo dissecting microscope worth nearly $300, an ecology kit worth $150+, and many, many more books, kits, CD-ROMS, free passes, etc. The total value of door prizes this year was well over $2,200.

Next conference visit the exhibitors.

They represent a valuable, and often under-utilized resource for science teachers.

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SDSEA Helps Out Schools and New Teachers
Chuck Abel

Your local professional organization continues to contribute to successful science teaching by providing $500 in materials for classrooms around the county and state. Again this year 3 new teachers and 2 veteran teachers walked away with $100 shopping sprees, paid for by your association, during the last hour of Saturday's conference exhibit time.

The 4th annual Exhibitor BINGO contest was a feature of the just completed 17th annual conference. Teachers circulated in the exhibits area having their BINGO cards stamped by participating vendors. Once a card was completed, teachers worked on completing other cards to increase their chances in the noon drawing. The 5 winners then had an hour to shop at the exhibitor booths for any classroom science supplies they liked.

This year's winners were:
Cynthia Moser, a new teacher from Encanto Elementary in San Diego City Schools; Cristina Maestro, a new teacher from Castle Park Middle School in the Sweetwater district; Angela DeaMude, a veteran teacher at Chaparral High in the Grossmont District; Maria Marquez, a veteran teacher at Southwest High School in El Centro,California
April Hoffman, a new/student teacher at Las Posas Elementary in Camarillo, California

The "goodies" SDSEA bought for their schools included books on genetics, insects, sharks, whales, science assessment, etc., a collection of preserved animal specimens, science videos, packaged science kits, and several science reference books. The companies from whom they purchased materials were, Acorn Naturalists, Science 2 Discover, SeaWorld, EDC Educational Services, Children’s Literature Connection, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, and Wards.

. . . and the Winners ARE:

The really big door prizes went to:

G Pat Busbee of Montgomery Academy (City Schools) won the River Tank ( a $400 value) with plants and animals from Carolina Biological.

G Linda Hawk of San Dieguito High School won the Celestron 60mm robotic computerized telescope ( a $300 value) from Oceanside Photo and Telescope.

G Gary Rollins of Westwood Elementary school (Poway dist.) won the stereo binocular dissecting microsope ( a $300 value) from Cal-Ed Optical.

President's Message

Steve Mull

Science education is alive and well in San Diego County. I saw it in the faces of over a thousand teachers at the SDSEA's annual conference. I saw it in the many businesses represented by the San Diego Science Alliance. It was obvious in the enthusiasm throughout the conference center that educators know the importance of a quality science program and that San Diego County will deliver.

There are so many individuals that worked very hard to make this conference a success that I will not attempt to list them, for fear of leaving one out. Each one volunteered countless hours and deserves the science community's sincerest thanks. However, we do need to extend our warmest thanks to Penny Wilson and Kathy Hepler, the chairs of the event. Their dedication to the science community is extraordinary.

As we bring this conference and school year to a close, it is not too early to start thinking about next year's conference. "What?" you say. "We just left one conference and you want me to think about next year?" Well, next year San Diego will be hosting the NSTA conference, with as many as 20,000 science educators participating. SDSEA representatives are already hard at work with the NSTA to make this event a "to die for!" We are working with Balboa Park, Sea World, and the many members of the Science Alliance to make this truly a community effort.

The NSTA has also teamed up with SDSEA to offer San Diego educators a discount rate, around $30 off for SDSEA members. Let's see, membership in the SDSEA is $20 a year. You can save $30 on NSTA registration alone, not counting other SDSEA membership benefits. Hmm, do the math! For more information, check out the web site, sdsea.org.

Other exciting conference news, we have elected a new president and treasurer. Congratulations to Judy Heitz, our new SDSEA president, and Kathy Hepler, our new treasurer. These two individuals already work tirelessly to promote science education in our community and will be exceptional officers.

Yes, I am moving into early retirement. Just when I kind of get the hang of this president gig, it is time to move on. I'll still be around though. Join us, become involved in the science community. We meet the first Wednesday of every month, at the county office. All science educators are welcome and encouraged to join us.

San Diego Zoo InternQuest

San Diego Zoo InternQuest is a work-exploratory internship offered for high school juniors and seniors. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, students meet with and visit the work sites of Zoo and Wild Animal Park professionals. Students record their experience through journals and digital pictures that are posted at the student- created Zoo InternQuest Web site www.sandiegozoo.org/wildideas/internquest

Applications are being accepted now through April 30, 2001 for next school year. For more information, see the Zoo InternQuest web site www.sandiegozoo.org or call Kathy Myers, Education Specialist, San Diego

Zoo at (619) 231-1515 ext 4139.

If you are interested in arranging for a Powerpoint presentation about the program for your students, please contact Kathy Myers.

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SAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM TO OPEN EXPANDED FACILITY WITH NEW EXHIBITIONS AND GIANT-SCREEN FILM

The San Diego Natural History Museum will celebrate the grand opening of its new, expanded facilities with a new traveling exhibition, Epidemic! The Natural History of Disease, April 6-August 12. This thought-provoking exhibition examines how to best control the worldwide spread of infectious disease. Through dioramas, three-dimensional models, interactive labs, videos, and more, visitors will uncover amazing and fun facts as they learn why it’s a germ’s world after all. This exhibition is especially appropriate for students studying microscopic life or genetic cell biology.

Also available will be Ocean Oasis, a breathtaking giant-screen film premiering April 6 at the Museum’s brand-new 300-seat multimedia Charmaine and Maurice Kaplan Theater. This film takes viewers on an engaging journey into two remarkably different, but inextricably linked worlds—Mexico’s Sea of Cortés and the Baja California desert. Whether gliding side-by-side with a graceful giant manta ray or witnessing the elaborate tango of courting terns, audiences will witness the beauty of life in a seemingly barren landscape. Ocean Oasis was filmed with an IMAX® camera and produced by the Museum, Summerhays Films, and PRONATURA A.C., Mexico’s largest conservation organization. For more information, visit www.oceanoasis.org.

The Museum will also assemble a sampling of natural treasures—some old favorites, some never before on display—that tell myriad stories of our region's habitats, both past and present, with Natural Treasures: Past and Present, opening May 25. Visitors will learn the secret stories of rocks, fossils, plants, and animals from Southern California and Baja California. They will also discover our region's dramatic geologic past, tremendous variety of climate, and the changing array of plants and animals that today is one of the most diverse and endangered in the world. Natural Treasures also provides a sneak preview of new regional exhibits being planned for the Museum, and invites visitor feedback on future displays. The Museum will build its permanent exhibit collection over the next few years.

Admission to the Museum is $4 for per person for youth groups and includes admission to the exhibitions and Ocean Oasis. Call (619) 232-3821 ext. 210 for reservations or visit www.sdnhm.org for information about the Museum.

New Teacher Focus Group

The New Teacher Focus Group will meet on Saturday May 12 at La Jolla High School. Lessons and demonstrations will be shared by veteran and new teachers. The meeting will start at 9:00 a.m. and end about noon. Come or encourage other teachers to come and learn demonstrations, labs and teaching techniques to help make teaching easier and more fun. This is a grassroots effort to improve science teaching and make the lives of science teachers easier.

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Sand Castle Engineering - Dreams in the Sand

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https://www.teachworth.net then select Sand Castle Contest

A simple and fun competition combining science, sand and fun will be held with the emphasis on FUN will be held twice this year. This is an effort by local science teachers and professionals to allow students to use basic research skills, engineering and science principles at the beach in a series of low stress but high activity competitions. This year come to the south end of Mission Beach (just off of San Diego Court) on Saturday April 7 to watch and enjoy the secondary teams then return on April 21 to watch the elementary teams. The action should start about 8 a.m. and end by noon.

The contest is sponsored by SDSEA. Main organizers are Mike Thacker, Vivian Fung, (both local scientists) and Martin Teachworth (physics teacher at La Jolla High School). The competition is open to all high and middle schools in San Diego County. Students form groups from 2 to 4 and compete in five different events. The first event requires students to build a tower of sand and water to be as tall as possible and also be capable of holding a water filled bottle. The next event is to build a bridge of sand capable of holding a water filled bottle and having as large a span as possible. Then a realistic castle is to be made. The students must research an actual castle, bring research to show the judges then build it in the 30 minute time period. Next, students create sand art, the topic being a sea creature in its natural habitat. The event also requires research to show the judges. The final event of the competition is a tower building relay race, with one person building and the partners transporting water and sand from the tide line.

In 2001, there is also an elementary competition on Saturday April 21. The elementary student have the same fun events to do, but have the advantage of being able to come and watch the older students compete two week ends earlier.

To find out more information, look at the Sand Castle web page (https://www.teachworth.net then select Sand Castle Contest) or contact Martin Teachworth ([email protected] 858.454.3081 x 224)

Career Exploration

https://www.jobshadow.monster.com.

Monster.com, in partnership with Junior Achievement, has set up a website that contains testimonials and descriptions of various careers. Students can enter the website and select a mentor according to career field. The picture of a real person in that position, as well as a bio, pops up. The student can read about that person's experience in that position. There are a number of positions available and it's a fairly simple website to maneuver in, so if you'd like to assist your students with career exploration on the web visit this site.

CalMax Program

CalMAX is a wanted and available materials exchange program where a variety of materials are offered at a minimal or no cost. Materials that are designated through KidMAX (materials for school's and educational purposes) then they are FREE. This program was established to "reuse" materials normally destined for the landfill, which minimizes the use of natural resources, landfill space and is it makes good business sense. Plus, you can't beat FREE materials!

Here is the web site for a brief overview of the program: https://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/CalMAX/KidMax.htm Be sure to check out the other listings in the left column of the site because many of them are school/education related.

Job Description

From the Internet

Let me see if I've got this right. You want me to go into that room with all those kids and fill their every waking moment with a love for learning. " Not only that, I'm to instill a sense of pride in their ethnicity, behaviorally modify disruptive behavior, observe them for signs of abuse and T-shirt messages.

"I am to fight the war on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, check their backpacks for guns and raise their self-esteem.

I'm to teach them patriotism, good citizenship, sportsmanship and fair play, how and where to register to vote, how to balance a checkbook and how to apply for a job.

"I am to check their heads occasionally for lice, maintain a safe environment, recognize signs of potential anti-social behavior, offer advice, write letters of recommendation for student employment and scholarships, encourage respect for the cultural diversity of others, and, oh yeah, always make sure that I give the girls in my class 50 percent of my attention.

"I'm required by my contract to be working on my own time summer and evenings at my own expense toward advance certification and a master's degree; and after school, I am to attend committee and faculty meetings and participate in staff development training to maintain my employment status.

"I am to be a paragon of virtue larger than life, such that my very presence will awe my students into being obedient and respectful of authority.

"I am to pledge allegiance to supporting family values, a return to the basics, and to my current administration. I am to incorporate technology into the learning, and monitor all Web sites while providing a personal relationship with each student.

"I am to decide who might be potentially dangerous and/or liable to commit crimes in school or who is possibly being abused, and I can be sent to jail for not mentioning these suspicions.

"I am to make sure all students pass the state and federally mandated testing and all classes, whether or not they attend school on a regular basis or complete any of the work assigned. Plus, I am expected to make sure that all of the students with handicaps are guaranteed a free and equal education, regardless of their mental or physical handicap.

"I am to communicate frequently with each student's parent by letter, phone, newsletter and grade card.

I'm to do all of this with just a piece of chalk, a computer, a few books, a bulletin board, a 45 minute more-or-less plan time and a big smile, all on a starting salary that qualifies my family for food stamps in many states. Is that all?"

"And you want me to do all of this and expect me not to pray?"

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SDSA Teacher Hotline

Would you like access to scientists who can answer questions, provide information about new discoveries and new areas of science, and enthuse students about scientific professions.

In San Diego County, we are fortunate to have a wealth of people resources from science-related businesses, institutions of research and higher education, museums, health networks, and scientific professional societies.

The Teachers' Hotline is a tool that can lead you to an appropriate scientist who lives and works in San Diego County, and who is eager to share scientific knowledge

HOW DO I ASK A QUESTION?

IT'S A SIMPLE PROCEDURE. ALL YOU NEED IS ACCESS TO THE INTERNET.

Go to the Science Alliance home page (www.sdsa.org).

Click on the blue Ask A Scientist window, and then on ASK A QUESTION.

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Electric Car Race

A fun competition call the SAE Electric Car Race will take place on Saturday May 5. The SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) of SDSU has been sponsoring and hosting this event for a number of years. Hopefully this year more students will participate and enjoy learning how to design, build then fix a small electric car. This year car kits containing all the parts needed to make a small racing electric car (except for the frame) may be purchased for $6.00. It is a great investment. The kit contains batteries, wheels, axles, various matching gears, an electric motor and various hardware. The only part which must be used is the motor. All cars will use the same brand of motor, but any other part may be changed or modified as desired.

Students learned to solder, design, build, then FIX problems. Students name the cars, then enter to race as individuals or as a team (this is up to the teacher and students to decide).

The overall goal is to get students to learn about engineering in a fun and exciting way. This competition certainly fits this goal. SAE volunteers are willing to talk with students at the school before the competition. This is a real help to get students and teachers ready to design and build. If your school and students are not doing this activity this year, you should plan on doing this next year. Even if the kits are not competed in the SAE competition, students will learn a LOT of real life science and engineering while building the cars. Funds in any program are always in short supply, but as fun and exciting as the activity is, the PTA or parents should be willing to help fund the program or start a club at school. A subtle hint to increase parent involved and interest is to offer a race off at school at night and allow a PARENT or ADULT division. This will get a lot more parents involved with a school activity

This event takes place the first Saturday of May each year. This year it will be held at La Jolla High School tennis courts and should start about 8 in the morning.

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News You Can Use:
Land, Sea, and Air Mail on the Web

SeaWorld, Busch Gardens, and Discovery Cove have created a new monthly newsletter just for teachers. And it arrives on your e-mail “doorstep.” LAND, SEA, & AIR MAIL brings you news you can use about animals that live on the land, swim in the sea, and soar in the sky. Each issue focuses on one subject and includes classroom activities for grades K-12, animal information, links to other cool web sites, environmental action tips, and the latest updates from Julie Scardina, SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Ambassador. In addition, exceptional teachers and schools are highlighted each month.

September’s issue covered Animal Athletes, with tie-ins to the Summer Olympics in Australia. November’s issue explored the world of the Florida manatee. January’s topics will include gray whales, bird migrations, sharks, activities for Earth Day, and more.

Interested? To subscribe to LAND, SEA, & AIR MAIL go to www.seaworld.org, click on the newsletter logo (just like to one above) and scroll to the bottom of the page for subscription directions.

Don’t miss this easy and convenient source of animal information and classroom activities. Did we mention it’s free? Sign up today!

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SEED FAIR

San Diego Environmental Education Discovery

To “plant a seed” of environmental knowledge in the fertile minds of San Diego educators and students

MEET THE TEST: “THE NATURE CHALLENGE”

Experience all the excitement of a game show with an environmental slant as young people from 4^th grade through 12^th grade face off Friday and Saturday, April 27-28, 2001 at San Diego Mesa College. The Nature Challenge is a FREE environmental knowledge and problem solving competition for teams of 4^th, 5^th-6^th, 7^th-8^th, 9^th-10^th, 11^th-12^th grade students. There are five components to the Nature Challenge: Bell Ringer Questions (cognitively based short answer), Dilemmas (expository essay type situations), Team Problems (indoor problem solving activities), Nature Investigations (outdoor problem solving), and Environmental Action Projects. All but the Action Project takes place during the above dates. Teams consist of 4 youths, (according to the appropriate division,) and one adult coach. Questions and activities emphasize regional ecology, natural history, and conservation, falling in seven areas of focus: biodiversity; niche/habitats; threatened and endangered species of San Diego and Imperial Counties; habitat loss; food webs/interdependence; flora and fauna of San Diego and Imperial Counties; and application (involvement in the environment). The purpose of the Nature Challenge is to motivate students, reinforce key concepts, review learning, and involve students in conservation activities in their community. All activities and events are closely aligned with the CA State subject matter Standards.

Any school or youth group can send one or more teams; each team must be individually named. Pre-registration is required. You’ll want to begin preparing your students now for the April competition. Teacher Orientation Packets with rules, coaching tips, and grade-level appropriate sample questions and activities are available. SanDCREEC can also make study recommendations. Watch for further information.

Environmental Action Projects - Each team must direct an environmental action project (EAP) of their own choosing anytime between now and May 15, 2001. These projects do not have to be complicated. The EAPs can involve the individual team, the class or the entire school—whatever, the team decides! Team Teachers/Coaches/Leaders will work directly with Dr. Neal Biggart of The Environmental Trust (619/461-8333) to select and implement the EAP.

Begin planning now to enter a team of students who will be competing for fun and special awards as well as working in behalf of the environment. Further information can be obtained from Betsy A. Leonard, SanDCREEC, Nature Challenge Coordinator 619/232-3821 extension 192 or [email protected].

So you don’t want to enter a team, but you would like to be involved. Excellent! SEED Fair needs all kinds of volunteers—judges, monitors, writers, planners, directors, etc. It is a BIG event and growing each year. Contact the SanDCREEC Coordinator to discuss your involvement.

RESOURCES FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND GEOGRAPHY INSTRUCTION

https://personal.cmich.edu/~Franc1m/homepage.htm

To give a K-16 audience access to a wide variety of web sites about the earth and environmental sciences examine the above web site. The sites are organized according to the topics covered in many earth science classes. Admittedly, the site is not flashy. You'll find no flash animations or Java applets. What you will find are 700 + sites selected on the basis of image quality, ease with which lesson plans can be developed, organization, authenticity, scope, and format. There are no commercial endorsements associated with the page. Please make your colleagues and students aware of this site if you feel it would be useful.

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Environmental Education Competitive Grants

All great dreams need funding, and your environmental education project is no different. The bigger the dreams, the more money required! Question: Who will help you purchase books to implement your ACPE (A Child's Place in the Environment) curriculum or build a recycling center on your school grounds? Answer: The Office of Environmental Education in the California Department of Education!

CDE offers five Categories of Competitive Grants, ranging from $5,000 to $15,000. Mini-grants (on just about any topic) are funded up to $5,000, and implementation, site/facility, networking, and interdisciplinary implementation or planning grants are funded up to $15,000. The OEE staff reviews these grants with a panel of twelve environmental educators selected each spring. Applications and guidelines are available in PDF format on the OEE website at www.cde.ca.gov/cilbranch/OEE. Grant deadline is May 15. Around seventy-five percent of competitive grants are funded each year! Winning programs are those encouraging student learning and development of healthy attitudes and personal responsibility toward the environment. You have a good chance--so get going! If you want a copy mailed to you, call Rebecca in the Office of Environmental Education today! 916-322-9398.

Need an encouraging success story? Dave Long, a teacher at Cabrillo High School in Lompoc helped students build a warm water reef aquarium in 1986. The project was so contagious, that Dave and his students raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, and have built a colossal student run aquarium featuring amazing tanks and displays along with teaching classrooms attached! Take a virtual tour through the amazing student run Cabrillo Aquarium https://site.yahoo.net/cabrillo/!

You can do it too! Dream your dreams, and go after the money! This is a good place to start! Mone isn't everything, but it sure helps. Happy hunting!

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New San Diego Wetlands Resource

Introducing a new curriculum packet, devoted entirely to the wetland habitats of San Diego County. This packet is stuffed with everything the 3rd to 6th grade teacher needs to implement a wetlands unit, including a vocabulary, eight fact sheets, illustrated species identification cards, two classroom activities, a map of San Diego's watersheds, a bibliography/reference guide, and brief descriptions of each San Diego wetland area. This packet, which supports National Science Education Standards, was developed and created through the collaborative efforts of SeaWorld, San Diego wetland areas, and the Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project.

Best of all, the San Diego Wetlands packet is FREE to teachers and educators! Available at most San Diego wetland areas--contact the facility nearest you. And it will soon be available on the SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Education Website. Call the Sea World San Diego Education Department, (619) 226-3834 for more details.

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Help Fight The Fight Against Breast Cancer!

Let this be your good deed for today... it only takes a second. Go to the site below. Click the button and a free mammogram is donated to someone at no cost to you. It is paid for by corporate sponsors (who gain advertising in the process because you see their logo). All you do is go to the site and click on the "donate" button. It takes just a few seconds. However, you're only allowed one donation, so please pass this on: https://www.thebreastcancersite.

This is a great cause in the fight against breast cancer!

FREE GEOTHERMAL WORKSHOP

Learn about how we use Earth's heat

• August 28, 2001, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m., Town & Country Hotel, San Diego

• For teachers of General Science, Earth Science, Social Studies and

Environmental Science, Grades 4 - 12

• Continuing Education Units

The Geothermal Education Office will present a free workshop on Geothermal at the Town & Country Hotel in San Diego on Tuesday, August 28, from 1 pm to 5 pm. The workshop is being held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Geothermal Resources Council, the geothermal industry’s worldwide membership organization.

The event will feature slide presentations by seasoned speakers about geology, exploration, drilling, generation of electricity, direct-use technologies and environmental and energy policy issues - with plenty of time for q's and a's.

All attendees will have access to the Geothermal Industry Exhibit Hall to see latest geothermal technology.

Lots of free age-appropriate curricular materials will be available. If your school is already in session on this date, the Geothermal Education Office will give a $20. subsidy to your school toward the cost of substitute teachers. Although planned for gr. 4 - 12 teachers of General Science, Earth Science, Social Studies and Environmental Science, teachers and administrators of all grades and subjects are welcome.

Recent "electrical" events in California mean our students need all the more to understand energy options. This workshop will give you more background about renewable geothermal energy (which is abundant in the San Diego area) and will offer you the opportunity to interact with energy experts.

Registration is required and space is limited, so sign up early! Please contact the Geothermal Education Office to register by phone at 1-800-866-4436, ext.2, or fax name, affiliation, address and phone number to 415-435-7737 or send by email to [email protected].

This workshop has been approved for .4 Continuing Education Units ($20.) through Sonoma State University. Paperwork for this will be provided to interested teachers.

Hot Off The Press

The current issue of the San Diego Science Alliance is "hot off the press." To read it, visit our web site at: www.sdsa.org click on Newsletter on the top green bar .

We hope you will find the issue of interest.https://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?pr0098

Free Genetics Software

https://genscope.concord.org/

For Macintosh computers, this free software program teaches genetics, and inheritance via a species of imaginary dragons. There are additional files for humans, laborador retrievers, and horses.

Paid for by NSF - it's great fun and comes with suggested activities!

Are you a Green Teacher?

Now read by more than 11,000 North American educators, GREEN TEACHER is a 52 page, non-profit magazine for those wanting to promote environmental and global awareness with young people. Full of inspiring ideas and advice from successful green educators, GREEN TEACHER offers perspectives on the role of education in creating a sustainable future, ready-to-use activities and teaching units, and reviews of new resources. Schoolyard naturalization, community mapping, sustainable development, GIS in classrooms, environmental monitoring, habitat restoration, analyzing our ecological footprints and international development are just a few of the topics covered in recent years.

Among the features of Green Teacher's website, located at "www.greenteacher.com", is an index of the titles and descriptions of all the articles and activities published in its ten year history. Visitors can also freely download 100's activities from several editions of the Planet Earth Pages K-12 activity section. Recent editions have focused on renewable energy, sustainability, development education, and food. They welcome contributions, whether they are submissions of articles or teaching activities or reviews of new learning resources. Those who are interested should download GREEN TEACHER's Writers' Guidelines from their website or obtain them from the editors

This is a magazine for those who want to help young people -- from pre-school through high school -- build a cleaner, greener, more peaceful world. Published quarterly, one-year subscriptions cost $24 and sample copies cost $6. For a complete list of available back issues, contact: GREEN TEACHER, PO Box 1431, Lewiston, NY, 14092, (416) 960-1244. Email: [email protected] Tim Grant, Co-editor (416) 960-1244 Fax: (416) 925-3474

Natural Resources School

The Los Padres Forest Association (LPFA), nonprofit educational organization, in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, will be holding a FREE 12-day summer outdoor learning experience for 20 students ages 13-14 beginning in late June and ending in early July. The Natural Resources School is a residential, hands-on introduction to land and natural resource management planning. Students with a genuine interest in the outdoors and a desire to learn about the ecosystems and natural resources in the Los Padres National Forest and coastal locations can apply for this opportunity by contacting Christopher Danch, LPFA Executive Director, at 805-640-9060, or Jeff Saley of the USDA Forest Service at 805-961-5771, for an application.

For Teachers! Spend a week in a beautiful California forest setting this summer and receive a $200 stipend! You will be trained in Project Learning Tree, Project WILD, Aquatic Wild, and the CLASS Project. This valuable experience will help you design and present information about California forest ecology and natural resource management. The Forestry Institute for Teachers (FIT) has a soft March 15 deadline. Check out their website for online information and registration at https://www.forestryinstitute.com. I went to FIT, really enjoyed the experience, and highly recommend it!

Science Adventures

https://www.scienceadventures.org/

Science Adventures makes it easy to find informal science education centers throughout the United States that offer students, teachers, and parents the opportunity to participate in science education experiences

Explore the Universe with the XMM-Newton Satellite

The 2001 Summer NASA XMM-Newton Teacher Workshop

University of California, Santa Barbara

June 18-21, 2001 with a follow-up meeting on October 13

sponsored by NASA and theXMM-Newton Education/Public Outreach Office

https://outreach.ucsb.edu/xmm/ or

contact the XMM-Newton E/PO Office at 805-893-7970.

The XMM-Newton Education/Public Outreach Office will offer a 2001 summer educator workshop for secondary educators. This workshop is designed for motivated educators who wish to learn about the XMM-Newton Mission. Participants will have the opportunity to meet scientists involved with XMM-Newton and learn about the mission and resulting discoveries. The educators will participate in developing and testing educational materials related to XMM-Newton Mission. At the end of the week, participants will have produced lessons that will be featured on the XMM-Newton E/PO website.

When: June 18-21 with a follow-up meeting on October 13

Where: University of California, Santa Barbara Campus

Stipend: $200 for the June workshop and $50 for the October meeting

Academic Credit: Optional extension units are available for a fee.

For additional information and an application, go to our website

The XMM-Newton Satellite

Many celestial objects generate X-rays in extremely violent processes, but Earth's atmosphere blocks out these X-rays -- messengers of what occurred in the distant past when stars were born or died, which hold clues to our future. Only by placing X-ray detectors in space can such sources be detected, pinpointed and studied in detail. XMM-Newton, the largest science satellite ever built in Europe, carries three very advanced X-ray telescopes. Each contains 58 high-precision concentric mirrors, delicately nested to offer the largest collecting area possible to catch the elusive X-rays. These Mirror Modules will allow XMM-Newton to detect millions of sources, far greater than any previous X-ray mission. Its wafer-thin X-ray mirrors are a miracle of engineering and the smoothest ever built. With its five X-ray imaging cameras and spectrographs, and its optical monitoring telescope, the new space observatory will for the next ten years be at the cutting edge of astronomy. The satellite's highly eccentric orbit, traveling out to nearly one third of the distance to the Moon, allows astronomers to make very long and uninterrupted observations. Peering into deep space using XMM-Newton’s payload will considerably increase our knowledge of very hot objects created when the Universe was very young.

The XMM-Newton Mission is an ESA (European Space Agency) project. Scientists and engineers from European countries designed, planned, built, launched, and now operate this space telescope. NASA contributed some experimental equipment that is on the XMM-Newton and support scientists using the satellite for research. The XMM-Newton satellite was launched on December 10, 1999 at Kourou, French Guiana. The spacecraft has just begun to provide information on celestial bodies for scientists to interpret.

The XMM-Newton Education/Public Outreach Website https://outreach.ucsb.edu/xmm/

Inventors Showcase Update

https://www.teachworth.net then select Inventors Showcase

Literacy is everywhere. Inventors Showcase can be the focus and/or culmination of a total curriculum, including Literacy... verbal and written communication, math and financial literacy, science, graphic design, music, advertising, life skills such as process thinking and problem solving. Connect with reality; build reality to world, reality to self, reality to text connections/ideas.

An invention is defined as an object or a system that improves the quality of life. An example of a system could be the movement of money through the credit card system. Now that is an awesome subject to teach! Most students, from elementary to secondary school, don’t have a clue as to how money moves through the use of the credit card system and what compound interest costs them as future consumers. Robert Kiyosaki, author of a current best selling book entitled “Rich Dad , Poor Dad”, has invented a game to teach adults how money moves, how investment works.

Why doesn’t someone invent a board or computer game to teach the credit card concept to Jr. High and High School students? What is the first thing that happens to a young adult when they graduate from high school. They get a credit card application in the mail inviting them to use it without the slightest knowledge of how to use it. They end up in debt before they even understand what happened? The closest game we have to this concept, to my knowledge, is Monopoly which is a good way to teach the economics of simple investments but is not sophisticated enough for today’s society.

The “webolution”, computerization and instant information systems are rapidly overwhelming us. Where do students get the connection of invention literacy to life skills concept? Especially since everything created by the human race was an invention at one time. I am looking across the room at a poster of Einstein and the quote at the bottom says, “The important thing is to never stop questioning.” Another says. “Imagination is more important than intelligence”. What are we teaching our students about reality and their future lifestyle? Are we preparing them to take over our world and keep it safe for future generations?

Inventors Showcase is a good place to visit if you have never seen it. Call for reservations for a field trip, no charge to students, you provide transportation. Ideas abound for teaching and inspiration. You will be well compensated with new ideas, insight and even a few chuckles will punctuate the scene. Go to the web site below for information and to download a copy of the rules and registration form.

Look now, the deadline is fast approaching. Don’t miss this alternative to science fair, a presentatrion for an Open House and/or to integrate your curriculum. This program is an opportunity for all ability levels, ages, to recognize the creative genius in all of us.

See you there.

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Bad Science Explained and Debunked

Many are the misconceptions that are taught based on common sense, in almost any field. Take chemistry, for example. Think about a drop of oil in a glass of water. Why doesn't oil mix with water? Someone will suggest that it's because they reject one another, but they'll be wrong.

Reading at the Bad Chemistry site, you'll learn that oil and water actually attract, but that they don't mix only because oil molecules cannot "slip" between water's molecules, which are tightly clustered. Hydrophobia aside, other topics covered by this site are about ice skating and ionic solutions. And if you're interested in more "Bad Sciences", take a look at the links the site displays. You'll be a little less intuitive about science, perhaps, but also much less

confused. https://www.princeton.edu/~lehmann/BadChemistry.html

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Send this reservation form and your entree choice to:

Penny Wilson,

Secretary

SDSEA

P.O. Box 712859

San Diego, CA 92171

You may phone or fax your reservation and entree at: (619) 278-3032 or

E-mail Penny at [email protected]

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SAN DIEGO SCIENCE EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION

VANCE MILLS EDUCATOR SCHOLARSHIP FUND

This scholarship is in honor of Vance Mills, long time educator and support of science education in San Diego, California and the US.

Policy and Procedures Information

Purpose:

The purpose of the scholarship fund is to provide financial aid to SDSEA member educators who show a need for funding to advance their professional growth directly related to science education. Funding will be in two categories:

1. General Category funds will be granted based on how the activity will impact the improvement of science education in San Diego County. Educational travel, in and of itself, is not considered a valid professional growth activity for the purposes of this grant.

2. Conference Category funds will be granted to cover registration costs for attending the annual SDSEA conference. Funding will be based on documented need for assistance and timely application, with preference given to new teachers (those who have been in the classroom 2 years or less).

Funding, Publicity, Application Procedures, and Limitations:

The San Diego Science Educators Association will provide the SDSEA - Vance Mills Scholarship Fund $2,000 yearly for General Category grants, made available (as funds permit) on or about July 1 each year, by vote of the SDSEA Board of Directors. Conference Category Scholarship Funds will be figured into the conference registration accounting as gratis registrations for up to 10 grant recipients per year. A sub-committee of the SDSEA Board of Directors will screen applications and recommend suitable SDSEA - Vance Mills Educational Scholarship grants to the SDSEA Board for funding. Application procedures for both grant categories will be publicized at least once a year to the membership (usually through the association's newsletter).

Members may apply for no more than one General Category SDSEA - Vance Mills Scholarship grant per fiscal year. Individual educational scholarship grants for amounts up to $250 may be applied for at any time during the fiscal year, July 1 - June 30, and will be considered on a first come first served basis. Conference Category grants may be applied for during the November, December or January immediately preceding the annual SDSEA conference the applicant is seeking to attend. Once the SDSEA - Vance Mills Educational Scholarship Fund has been depleted for the year no further applications will be accepted.

Conditions of the Educational Scholarship Grant:

As a condition for receiving either category of scholarship, recipients must agree to prepare a report of two pages or less about the professional growth activity that was undertaken, or what was gained from their conference attendance. This report should be in a form suitable for use in the SDSEA Newsletter. The report should be filed with the SDSEA Secretary within 30 days of the completion of the activity. Additionally, the recipient of General Category funds will make an oral report at one of the SDSEA Board of Directors meetings (to be arranged through the Secretary) or a presentation at the local conference (at the discretion of the conference program chair). FUNDS ARE NOT RECEIVED UNTIL THE REPORT IS GIVEN.

S D S E A - VANCE MILLS

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CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE APPLICATION

Personal information Work information

Name____________________________________ School_________________________________

Address__________________________________ Address________________________________

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State & Zip_______________________________ State & Zip_____________________________

Phone___________________________________ Phone__________________________________

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Request for SDSEA Conference registration costs to be covered by SDSEA.

• How many years have you been a classroom teacher? ______________

• What other sources of funding (if any) will you utilize to be able to attend the conference? (who is covering substitute costs, transportation, etc.)

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• What is the level of need for your conference registration? _________________________________________________________________________________

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Please return this form to:

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Support Science Education - Join SDSEA

San Diego Science Educators Association Membership Application

LAST CHANCE TO JOIN AT $5.00 AFTER THIS ISSUE $20.00 PER YEAR

Below is an application for membership to SDSEA. If you or someone you know would like to join, please have them fill out the form below and return it to the SDSEA PO box.

Name___________________________________________Position_____________________________

Subject________________________________________ Grade K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 12+

School________________________________________ School Phone__________________________

School Address_______________________________ School District___________________________

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In what ways are you willing to help our organization?

_____Present at Conferences _____Help with Special Interest Committees

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Return this form and payment to: Virginia Madigan, SDSEA, PO Box 712859, San Diego, CA 92171.

Be Heard!

If you have information to share, a concern, an interesting tidbit of information, word about an outstanding job a peer or students have done, let Martin Teachworth, the SDSEA Interconnections Editor know. You may contact him via US Mail or School Mail at La Jolla High School, 750 Nautilus St. La Jolla, CA 92037, fax (858)459-2188, or email ([email protected]).

New Members

Membership in SDSEA runs from March to March. However, membership can be acquired at ANY time during the year. With the start of a new school year, we need to remember to encourage all of our new science teachers to join SDSEA. Hundreds of new elementary teachers have been hired. What a great resource we could be to them! What a great opportunity for us to again assist the improvement of science education!

Call for Lesson Plans

San Diego County Teachers are exciting people! They stimulate, educate, and inspire students. Submit a favorite science lesson plan in one of the following areas: K-3, 4-6, 6-8, 9-12. The winner in each area will receive a $50.00 gift certificate to The Chart House. This is done in each issue of interconnections.

The complete, copy-ready lesson plan must be a maximum of one-page typed (minimum of 12 point font). Specify grade level of the plan. Include your name, school, district, and a three sentence biography. Send to: Martin Teachworth at La Jolla High School, 750 Nautilus St. La Jolla, CA 92037, fax (858) 459-2188, or email ([email protected])

Congratulations to Robert Ellingson who will receive a $50 gift certificate to the Chart House for the included lesson in the newsletter.

Lesson plan goes here

Egg into a Sheet

Change in Momentum Demonstration

Two students hold the sheet as shown. Be sure a U shape is formed at the bottom.

The third student stands CLOSE (1 to 2 meters) in front of the blanket and throws the egg. The egg may be thrown REALLY hard without breaking. The egg should not break unless it falls out of the blanket and hits the ground or is cracked before it is thrown.

Use this to discuss why seat belts work and why air bags are installed in cars.

Change in Momentum = Impulse

Mass x Change in Velocity = Force x time

Since the time to stop is relatively large (compared to hitting a wall) the force is relatively small and the egg does not break. The change in velocity and the mass is the same for both situations (sheet or hitting a wall) so the change in momentum is the same. The only factor stopping the egg from breaking is the change in the time to stop.

College Application Essay

(from the internet)

Ed Note - The following has been around a number of years. I think it is a good article to read or share with students for a number of reasons. The number of impossible things could be identified. The ability to write to communicate with exaggeration or understatements could be shown with the article. How this type of writing differs or is similar to the language used in lab reports or scientific essays could be discussed. I think it could be shared just for the entertainment value at the end of a period or to liven up a class.. Enjoy the article.

This is an actual essay written by a college applicant. The author Hugh Gallagher, now attends NYU.

3A. ESSAY

IN ORDER FOR THE ADMISSIONS STAFF OF OUR COLLEGE TO GET TO KNOW YOU,THE

APPLICANT, BETTER, WE ASK THAT YOU ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: ARE THERE ANY SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE HAD, OR ACCOMPLISHMENTS YOU

HAVE REALIZED, THAT HAVE HELPED TO DEFINE YOU AS A PERSON?

I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, makng them efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently.

Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.

I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.

Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.

I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I awed New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat .400.

My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me.

I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.

I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven.

I breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.

But I have not yet gone to college.
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Conference and Events Update

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April 6 Inventors Showcase Reg Due JoAnne Schaper (619) 491-1531

April 7 Secondary Sand Castle Engineering Martin Teachworth 858.454.3081x224 [email protected]

April 21 Elementary Sand Castle Martin Teachworth 858.454.3081x224 [email protected]

April 27 & 28 SEED Fair Betsy Leonard 619/232-3821 x 192 [email protected].

May 5 Electric Car Race Bill Guentzler SDSU ________________________

May 12 New Teacher Focus Group Martin Teachworth 858.454.3081x224 [email protected]

May 16 - 17 Inventors Showcase JoAnne Schaper (619) 491-1531

July 31 Happy Birthday to Harry Potter Thank you J.K. Rowling

Oct 7 New Teacher Focus Group Martin Teachworth 858.454.3081x224 [email protected]

March 2002 NSTA National Conference Register and be sure to identify yourself as an SDSEA member

To receive a discount

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Encourage thinking not memorization when teaching.

y name is Melissa Ryder and I am a teacher at La Jolla Country Day

School. Attached is an article that I would like to submit to the San

Diego Science Educator's Newsletter. It is a review of the Encinitas

Monarch Program facility as a field trip resource. Please read this

submission and let me know if it interests you to include it in an issue

of Interconnections. I also have photos that go with the article as well.

I can make them available you if desired.

I also have a five activity micro unit (4th grade level) on Earthworms:

Earth Recyclers that I would like to send in if the topic is timely and

appropriate with your publication and the lesson plans already published.

I will send this to you for your review upon request.

Please contact me via e mail at [email protected] or by phone (858)

558.7612 with regards to my resource review submission as well as the

lesson plan query. Thank you for your time.

Melissa Ryder