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Curriculum for the Classroom
Physics for Fun
Provide your students with a state-of-the-art physics lab
without leaving your classroom!
An Emmy Award-winning program designed for grades four-eight,
but it can be adapted for older and younger students. Physics for Fun
units include activity guides and videotapes. The units can be used in
science kits, to complement another science curriculum, or as self-contained
teaching units. The Convection Connection, developed with KCNC NEWS4,
is one of the units.
Web Weather
for Kids
Web Weather for Kids is an award winning web site developed
in collaboration with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
The site provides information about dramatic weather events, interactive
activities, inquiry-based experiments, and kid-friendly, well illustrated
Web pages. Web Weather for Kids is designed for fifth-eighth grade students,
their teachers, and parents.
Science Explorers
This professional development program for teachers offers
day-long activity-based workshops for teams consisting of a teacher and
five students. Students work side-by-side with their teacher, providing
opportunities for leadership development and professional growth. Program
content and activities support Colorado Content Standards. Workshop attendees
receive materials and curriculum to take back to their schools.
Solarscapes
Solarscapes is intended to be a short and focused study of the physical nature of the Sun. Originally written to accompany a traveling exhibition, it is aimed at the middle school level and focuses on the observable features of the Sun. The curriculum zeros in on the most prominent feature of the Sun, sunspots, and asks the students if they can learn anything about the rotation of the sun by observing the movement of sunspots on the surface of the Sun. This curriculum was developed by Science Discovery staff and middle school teachers in collaboration with the Space Science Institute. For more information and the curriculum visit their website.
Learn: Atmospheric Science Explorers
This on-line teaching module is for middle school science teachers. While some students may find portions of this site useful, the primary audience is classroom teachers and it has been developed with that target audience in mind. The site provides background information and supporting classroom teaching materials including many hands-on activities. The content focus is climate change and issues related to both stratospheric and tropospheric ozone. This curriculum was developed during Project LEARN, a NSF funded teacher enhancement program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Science Discovery worked in partnership with NCAR staff and scientists and numerous middle school teachers from across the country to develop this curriculum. For more information visit their website.
For more information contact Marion Read at 303-492-7188
or e-mail marion.read@colorado.edu.
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