Transcript Document 7736581

PEER Intensive 2002
Introductions
Roylene Arnold
Giddings ISD
Lori Dunn
Elgin ISD
Amy Horton
Buna ISD
Leslie Birkey
Wellington ISD
Jennifer
Faulknor
Hillsboro ISD
Ron Jones
Grand Saline ISD
Shawn Brock
Lamesa ISD
Roy Brooks
Pharr-San JuanAlamo ISD
Wanda
Demboske
Nueces Canyon
ISD
Billy Fowler
Bryan ISD
Felix Gaona
Santa Maria ISD
Sydney Gorton
Elgin ISD
Billy Lawson
Bullard ISD
Angela Martinez
United ISD
Carole Minnix
Elgin ISD
Trinidad Pina
Edcouch-Elsa
ISD
Walter Ray
Socorro ISD
Susan
Southerland
Bovina ISD
What
Courses
and Grade
Levels do
you teach?
PEER Intensive
Goals
The overarching goal of Intensive 2002 is to
provide an opportunity for middle school science
teachers, to learn about this exciting program
and to explore the electronic curriculum
resources that are currently being developed.
Moreover, teachers will engage in intensive,
hands-on sessions that provide professional
development in technology integration and
environmental and health science topics.
Special thanks to Shawn Brock and other teachers who fieldtested curricula modules with their students during the 20012002 school year!
Packet Contents
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Acknowledgements
Schedule of Events
Session Presenters
Program Overview
Participant Contact Information
College of Education Contact Information
College of Veterinary Medicine Contact Information
Maps and Directions
Session Handouts
Session Evaluations
Reimbursement Packets
PEER, eEducation, and Bryan/College Station Brochures
Intensive Schedule
Numerous
Hands-on
Activities:
Experiments
Curricula
Review/
Critiques
TrackStar
Project
Development
PEER Program
Overview
The Partnership for Environmental
Education and Rural Health PEER
program is a collaboration between the
College of Veterinary Medicine, College
of Education, and the Center for
Environmental and Rural Health CERH
at Texas A&M University and the Texas
Rural Systemic Initiative TRSI
PEER Program Objectives
Provide access to activity based curricular
materials over the Internet;
Provide regional water quality workshops;
Provide a one week environmental science/
technology intensive training program with
scholarships for 20 teachers/year;
Scientists Visits
PEER Professional Development
Initiatives
 Intensives for Science
Teachers
 Regional Water Quality
Workshops
 Teachers Received Water
Quality Certification (12
Hours)
 Teachers develop webbased science lessons using
Trackstar or Case Study
Writing Projects
 Teachers Evaluate webbased curricula for use in
classrooms
Resources from the Intensive
and Beyond . . .
Web-based Curricula
Professional Development
Resources for Teachers
Scientists Visits to
Schools
Water Testing Kits
Access to TrackStar
Lesson Development Tool
Scientists’ Visits Topics
Nervous
System
Smoking
Cells
Careers
Toxicology
We will have two sessions
on Scientist Visits.
Regional Water Quality
Workshops
Regional professional
development day and a
half training sessions on
water quality evaluation,
scientific method, and
use of technology in the
classroom were
conducted in different
locations in Texas. This
provided development
opportunities for rural
middle school science
teachers
PEER Integration Project
Instructional Materials
 The organizing idea is to identify and
develop environmental health themes that
can be placed in an integrated middle
school curricula for Mathematics, English,
Social Studies and Science
 Personal Lifestyles, Industrial Practices,
Farming Practices, and Community and
Government Policies themes will enable
activities such as: analyzing news items,
developing essays and news summaries,
performing mathematical modeling and
presenting statistical summaries, developing
case histories in history, geography etc.
We will have
Integration
Project
presentations
at lunch time.
Introduction to Web-based
Curricula
Web-based Curricula Modules
Currently Available
5 Water Quality Units
5 Cell Biology Units
5 Toxic or Not Units **
4 Organ Systems
Units **
2 Properties of
Hazards Units **
Middle school students
field-tested several
modules this past
Spring semester and
last year.
Web-based Curricula
Framework
 Lesson Objectives
 Pre-tests and Post-tests
with answer keys
 Presentation of Concepts
 Downloadable Student
Journal Activity Sheets for
Experiments and Activities
 Teacher’s Pages (Guides)
 An outline of science and
technology TEKS
Standards that are
addressed in the lesson
Organ Systems Module
Focuses on five main
classes of functions that a
body must perform.
Rather than just naming
organs of the body and
what they do, we present a
perspective on the body
as a coordinated group of
systems
Module Units:
Bodily Defenses
Digestion
Detoxication
Gas Exchange
Coordination & Control
Toxic or Not? Module
Students
Complete lessons on different
toxin sources such as bacteria,
nutrition, and air quality
Play a mystery game to find
what toxic substance has made
patients sick, and its sources
Modules
Welcome to Your World
Who Are Sam and Ella?
Every Breath You Take
More Than Skin Deep
You Are What You Eat
Properties of Hazards Module
 Focuses on different
types of hazards that we
can get exposed to in our
day to day life.
 It includes their properties,
source, route of exposure
and the adverse health
effects that they produce.
Module Units
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Invisible Intruders
Life Savers or Rat Poison? **
To Solve or Not to Dissolve? **
Dangerous Living
Delicious Poison
Time
for a
Break!
Assignments A, B, & C
Instructions
I. Refer to the
attached matrix to see
the three web-based
module units that you
have been assigned to
review.
For Example, Susan
Southerland will review
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Instructions Continued
II. Select your
Assignment A unit from
the web navigation menu
and thoroughly review
each section of the unit:
introduction, pretest,
presentation, activities,
posttest, and teachers
pages.
You will follow the same
steps for Assignments B
& C.
Instructions Continued
IV.Thoroughly
complete an attached
Teacher Review Form
for each unit that you
have been assigned
to review.
Teacher Reviews of Units
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feedback drives
continual
improvements
on the modules.
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review and
feedback is
invaluable in the
successful
implementation of
PEER modules in
your classrooms
and in classrooms
across the state.