Special Subject
Workshops
"Using Digital Documentaries in a Museum Setting" and "Why Do Humans Choose to Explore Space?"
Wednesday, October 8
94:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m
As a part of NASA's Future Forum celebrating fifty years of NASA, educators are invited to participate in an exciting teacher workshop.
Want to learn how to make your students' museum visits more educational and memorable?
The Using Digital Documentaries in a Museum Setting portion of this workshop will introduce teachers to the use of digital documentaries to extend content research by students. Using thematic prompts, attendees will obtain video and still images from the Adler Planetarium's exhibit galleries. Attendees will also practice combining images into documentation of the museum visit.
The Why Do Humans Choose to Explore Space? portion of the workshop will lead teachers through hands-on activities for examining habitable places in our Solar System as well as the search for life on Mars.
This class is intended for K-12 teachers and will be led by Sharon Bowers from the National Institute of Aerospace and Storm Robinson, a NASA Aerospace Education Specialist. Three CPDUs are available. Registration is free, but preregistration is required. Registration deadline is 4 pm CDT on Monday, October 6, 2008.
Adler Museum Resources and the Sun-Earth Connection
Friday, November 28
9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m
Pre-Kindergarten-8th grade teachers
3 CPDUs
Explore ways to investigate the Sun with your students. We will examine Adler resources for use at the planetarium and in your classroom. Adler Planetarium Discovery Kits will be available for check out.
To Register for the above events, contact:
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Kit Development Project
Wednesday December 10 4:00 - 7:00 p.m
and Saturday, December 13, 10:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m.
Teachers of Grades 6-8
The Adler Planetarium is creating a new Discovery Checkout Kit. This new Kit will enable teachers and students to use images from the camera that is a part of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) set to launch in January of 2009. Be a part of the teacher team that enables us to create materials that are exciting, appropriate and usable. Teachers selected to work on the project will be eligible for CPDUs and a $100 honorarium. Please download the
LROC Kit Development Project application for all requirements.
Astronomy Connections Graduate
Course
SCE 582CF WS / Science ED / Astronomy Connections: Predicting the Future
These two day, one graduate credit workshops are designed to introduce teachers to innovative and effective ways of integrating museum resources, earth and space science concepts, and inquiry-based teaching. This will help participants infuse the content into the classroom, which will engage students in meaningful learning experiences that support scientific literacy. Astronomy Connections is an interdisciplinary program, intended for both science and non-science teachers.
Some people claim they can predict the future and often people make predictions that come true. How do you and your students know if you should believe a forecast? Making predictions is an important part of science. In order to make predictions about the future, scientists examine the past and present to discover patterns and causes and effects. In order to convince people to believe in their predictions, they have to provide credible evidence.
These workshops are set up as three mini units that involve forecasting the future in the same way a scientist does. In these units, students will be asked to make predictions about the atmosphere, the planet and universe in the near, intermediate and far future. Students will have to examine past and present conditions in order to understand what will change and why. All mini units are intended to help students understand Earth and Space Science content simultaneous with understanding how scientists make models from data in order to make predictions. Students will do this by making predictions in three domains: weather, climate/plate tectonics and cosmology.
The three mini units address PSAE goals and Illinois state learning benchmark for Earth Science, Space Science and Scientific inquiry.
Participants in Astronomy Connections: Predicting the Future will receive the following benefits:
• Full curriculum guide and Full materials kit
• A free field trip to the Adler Planetarium for your students (including bus fees)
• Optional graduate credit (through National Louis University), CPDU's, or CPS lane credit (pending)
Participants in Astronomy Connections: Predicting the Future must meet the following requirements:
• Participate in both professional development days
• Willingness and ability to develop and maintain an online learning community, with other participating schools, for the duration of the implemented unit.
• Willingness on the part of the teacher(s) and principal to participate in program evaluation activities which may, in some cases, include classroom visits by Adler staff.
• Pay registration & materials fee when registering
• A completed application with your principal's signature
Course Fees:
Registration & materials fee - $50.00
If you intend to not take the course for graduate credit and only earn CPDU's or CPS lane credit, the total cost of the course is $50.00. At this time, we can only accept checks (made payable to Adler Planetarium), and the fee is due upon registration.
Graduate credit fee (optional) - $129.00* per workshop (maximum 2) This payment will also be due during the first class. Checks can be made payable to Nation Louis University.
*Tuition waivers are available for teachers from Chicago Public Schools (CPS). The waiver covers the National Louis University tuition. The waiver does not cover the registration & materials fees. You are still required to pay the $50.00 registration & materials fee at the time of registration, and the $129.00 per workshop on the first day of class. Reimbursement for tuition will be given after adequate completion of the course. There is a section on the application for CPS teachers to request this waiver.
SESSIONS START October 25th, 2008! - Registration now open!
Download the registration form.
Enrollment is limited! Applicants will be notified of their acceptance via e-mail or telephone by October 22nd or upon receipt of application. For more information, you may call the Astronomy Connections Hotline 312.322.0302 or E-mail us at registration@adlerplanetarium.org
Dates and Time: Astronomy Connections: Predicting The Future
• Mini-Unit 1 (2-days) Weather/Plate Tectonics --Saturdays, 10/25/08 and 11/1/08
• Mini-Unit 2 (2-days) Climate --Saturdays, 11/8/08 and 11/15/08
• Mini-Unit 3 (2-days) Cosmology -- Saturdays, 10/25/08 and 11/1/08
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All classes run from 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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