Professional Development
Inspiring Student Led Inquiry-Based Learning
Grades: 3-12
Date & Time: Tuesday, July 29, 9 am – 3:30 pm [lunch provided]
This engaging, hands-on workshop—led by members of the NC Science & Engineering Fair (NCSEF) team—will help you:
*Enhance student learning through the new NC Science and Engineering Practices.
*Explore strategies to promote higher-level, inquiry-based STEM learning.
*Expand your ability to guide and support student-led research projects.
*Engage with a NC Science and Engineering Fair support system.
Location: UNCW Watson College of Education (Sayed Hall)
Credit: 0.6 CEUs [additional 0.4 CEUs available through optional online follow-up this fall]
Fee: FREE!
Register by July 24: bit.ly/ncsefpd25
Cultivating Engineering Mindsets in your Elementary Classroom
Grades: PK-5
Date & Time: Tuesday, August 5, 1 – 4 pm
Instructor: Steve Johnson
Location: UNCW Watson College of Education (Sayed Hall)
Credit: 0.3 CEUs
Fee: $20
Register by July 31: bit.ly/cestem009-26
Can all of your PreK-5 students learn to think, learn, and adapt like engineers? Absolutely! In this workshop, we’ll get our hands on the engineering design process and think through easy yet practical ways to incorporate it regularly into classroom activities and pacing you’re already immersed in. From traditional supplies like wooden planks, painters tape, and cardboard through digital creations, the engineering design process is a powerful framework for building and creating in every classroom!
As a group, we will work through 2 simple engineering tasks that are built to be “grab and go” so they can immediately be implemented when you return to school. Through these tasks, we’ll explore best practices of doing this work that have been collected from multitudes of NC teachers over the past 4 years. In addition to these tasks we will explore more ready-made engineering activities that have been designed by NC teachers, tied to core content, and made available freely via Go Open NC.
We will also discuss the all important WHY of this work- If you were to do this work with your students, what kinds of outcomes would you expect to see? In what ways does this work align beautifully with the NC Portrait of a Modern Graduate as well as our new NC science standards? Why is it critical for ALL students to start this work in our elementary schools rather than waiting until middle and high school?
Come learn FUN, practical ways to bring high-quality, rich STEM work into your classrooms!
Grades: K-12
Date & Time: Thursday, August 7, 1 - 4 pm
This is where Fun meets fundamentals. Consider using robots as a way for students to create unique art projects. Discover ways to program some of CESTEM's robots to produce original works of art. As students use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to write code, they begin to make connections with patterns, sequences, and much more.
Location: CESTEM Makerspace
Credit: 0.3 CEUs
Fee: $15.00 [non-refundable after 8/6 @ 12 PM]
Register by August 6 @ 12 pm: bit.ly/cestem004-26
Grades: 3-12
Date & Time: Tuesday, August 12, 1 - 4 pm
Come explore the micro:bit as a vehicle for introducing students to problem-solving using real-world content. Experience lessons using the micro:bit and the Forward Education Climate Action kit. Both are available to borrow from CESTEM. Discover how the hands-on activities allow students to apply the Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs). Consider ways to include code to learn lessons into your content area to increase your students' understanding.
Location: CESTEM Makerspace
Credit: 0.3 CEUs
Fee: FREE [supported by Friends of UNCW grant]
Register by August 11 @ 12 pm: bit.ly/cestem005-26
Grades: K-12
Date & Time: Thursday, August 14, 5 - 8 pm
Teachers will learn to operate CESTEM's Cylinder Based StarLab Planetarium. This training is required to borrow the StarLab from CESTEM.
Location: Sayed Hall
Credit: 0.3 CEUs
Fee: $15.00 [non-refundable after 8/13 @ 12 PM]
Register by August 13 @ 12 pm: bit.ly/cestem006-26
Grades: K-8
Date & Time: Saturday, September 13, 9 am – 12 pm
Conduct a temperature experiment to practice using scientific tools and making predictions. Explore evaporation, condensation, and precipitation with fun, hands-on activities. Discover what causes wind and make a tornado in a bottle. Investigate using the Vernier weather data collection tools available through CESTEM’s Technology Loan Program. Consider various ways to uncover and address students’ misconceptions. Access weather resources that are engaging for students.
Location: CESTEM Makerspace
Credit: 0.3 CEUs
Fee: $15.00 [non-refundable after 9/8 @ 8 AM]
Register by September 8 @ 8 am: bit.ly/cestem003-26
Grades: 6-12
Date & Time: Friday & Saturday, September 26 & 27, F: 5:30 - 8:30 pm & S: 8:30 am – 1 pm
Teachers will work with other new coaches to build a SeaPerch ROV from start to finish just like they will do with their new teams in grades 6-12. While supplies last, schools new to SeaPerch with a representative that completes the training will receive one ROV kit to build with their new team. (Limit one kit per school.)
Location: CESTEM Makerspace
Credit: 1.0 CEUs
Fee: FREE
Register by September 25 @ 12 pm: bit.ly/cestem007-26
TLP Contact & Hours
Hours:
Monday-Wednesday & Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Thursday, 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Summer Hours:
Monday-Wednesday & Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Thursday, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.