Professional Development and Connections
Grand Canyon University: Accelerated Summer STEM Educator Training (ASSET)
CanyonPD is proud to be an Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP) partner.
ASAP is a new initiative transforming how Arizona’s K-12 educators deliver high-quality, hands-on STEM activities to our state’s future leaders.
Canyon PD is providing ASSET (Accelerated Summer STEM Educator Training) to support the Teacher Fellows in earning their required hours, submitting lesson plans, and planning student STEM projects.
CanyonPD is presenting a 4 day, 20 hour interactive STEM workshop for K-12 teachers. Please join us on the GCU campus for a week of lessons, lesson planning, networking, and STEM play.
Breakfast, lunch, and materials included.
Tuesday 5/30/2023 – Friday 6/2/2023, GCU Campus
Grand Canyon University: Accelerated Summer STEM Educator Training (ASSET)
CanyonPD is proud to be an Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP) partner.
ASAP is a new initiative transforming how Arizona’s K-12 educators deliver high-quality, hands-on STEM activities to our state’s future leaders.
Canyon PD is providing ASSET (Accelerated Summer STEM Educator Training) to support the Teacher Fellows in earning their required hours, submitting lesson plans, and planning student STEM projects.
CanyonPD is presenting a 4 day, 20 hour interactive STEM workshop for K-12 teachers. Please join us for a week of lessons, lesson planning, networking, and STEM play.
Breakfast, lunch, and materials included.
Monday 6/19/23 – Thursday 6/22/23, Bisbee Unified School District
Grand Canyon University: Accelerated Summer STEM Educator Training (ASSET)
CanyonPD is proud to be an Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP) partner.
ASAP is a new initiative transforming how Arizona’s K-12 educators deliver high-quality, hands-on STEM activities to our state’s future leaders.
Canyon PD is providing ASSET (Accelerated Summer STEM Educator Training) to support the Teacher Fellows in earning their required hours, submitting lesson plans, and planning student STEM projects.
CanyonPD is presenting a 4 day, 20 hour interactive STEM workshop for K-12 teachers. Please join us on the GCU campus for a week of lessons, lesson planning, networking, and STEM play.
Breakfast, lunch, and materials included.
Monday 6/12/23 – Thursday 6/15/23, GCU Campus
Grand Canyon University: Accelerated Summer STEM Educator Training (ASSET)
CanyonPD is proud to be an Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP) partner.
ASAP is a new initiative transforming how Arizona’s K-12 educators deliver high-quality, hands-on STEM activities to our state’s future leaders.
Canyon PD is providing ASSET (Accelerated Summer STEM Educator Training) to support the Teacher Fellows in earning their required hours, submitting lesson plans, and planning student STEM projects.
CanyonPD is presenting a 4 day, 20 hour interactive STEM workshop for K-12 teachers. Please join us for a week of lessons, lesson planning, networking, and STEM play.
Breakfast, lunch, and materials included.
Monday 6/19/23 – Thursday 6/22/23, Pinetop Lakeside Blue Ridge Elementary
3050 Porter Mountain Rd, Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ 85929
Grand Canyon University: Accelerated Summer STEM Educator Training (ASSET)
CanyonPD is proud to be an Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP) partner.
ASAP is a new initiative transforming how Arizona’s K-12 educators deliver high-quality, hands-on STEM activities to our state’s future leaders.
Canyon PD is providing ASSET (Accelerated Summer STEM Educator Training) to support the Teacher Fellows in earning their required hours, submitting lesson plans, and planning student STEM projects.
CanyonPD is presenting a 4 day, 20 hour interactive STEM workshop for K-12 teachers. Please join us for a week of lessons, lesson planning, networking, and STEM play.
Breakfast, lunch, and materials included.
Monday 7/10/23 – Thursday 7/13/23, Yuma Crane Elementary School District
Grand Canyon University: Accelerated Summer STEM Educator Training (ASSET)
CanyonPD is proud to be an Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP) partner.
ASAP is a new initiative transforming how Arizona’s K-12 educators deliver high-quality, hands-on STEM activities to our state’s future leaders.
Canyon PD is providing ASSET (Accelerated Summer STEM Educator Training) to support the Teacher Fellows in earning their required hours, submitting lesson plans, and planning student STEM projects.
CanyonPD is presenting a 4 day, 20 hour interactive STEM workshop for K-12 teachers. Please join us for a week of lessons, lesson planning, networking, and STEM play.
Breakfast, lunch, and materials included.
Monday 7/10/23 – Thursday 7/13/23, Lake Havasu High School
2675 Palo Verde Blvd S, Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403
STEMteachersePHX: Space Exploration – Limitless Connections to STEM
Get ready for some fun hands-on activities tied to STEM, space exploration, and your K-12 standards!
Kaci Heins, a former Arizona educator, a current Kentucky science educator, and Limitless Space Institute Education Director is excited to lead a day of engaging K-12 STEM activities that are easy to implement and connected to science phenomena! Join us for a fun day of immersive STEM lessons, the latest in space exploration, and a virtual chat with a veteran astronaut!
LOCATION:
TBD, Phoenix area
STEMteachersPHX: Starburst Studies – Using Candy to Build ideas about Ratios and Proportional Reasoning
Build and examine models for proportional thinking in the middle grades–using low-cost manipulatives (Starburst candy)!
Learn to help your students build and use models to reason proportionally. Practice specific engagement techniques–powered by Modeling Instruction–to use in your mathematics classroom. NOTE: Math materials shared will focus on 6th, 7th, and 8th grade standards for ratios and proportional reasoning.
LOCATION:
San Tan Foothills High School, 1255 W Silverdale Rd, San Tan Valley, AZ 85142, USA
STEMteachersPHX: Reaching for the Stars with STEAM!
Follow an astronaut crew from initial selection through training , to space and back safely, all with real NASA artifacts.
You will select your crew based on skills necessary for long duration spaceflight with a variety of languages and cultures, design your crew patch, learn the basics of rocketry, calculate the distances to your target, landing precisely where you get the most scientific return for budget and living and working in extreme environments. You will integrate all of your learning into a Mission Integration game; learning budgeting, mission design and execution, with real challenges, both setbacks and spinoffs.
All activities can be brought back to class or integrated into a multi class or week after school space club.
LOCATION:
TBD – Phx area
STEMteachersPHX: Engineering in the Middle School Classroom
Join Engineering Educators Matt Peterie and Andrew Taylor for a weeklong workshop aimed at integrating engineering in your middle school classroom.
Experience powerful storylines incorporating both engineering and science practices into the Middle School Physical and Life Sciences. This workshop provides multiple instructional sequences that make current science and engineering research accessible to your students, illustrates how to use engineering design as a context for rich scientific inquiry, and provides opportunities to develop materials incorporating these topics into your current curriculum. Storylines include removing pollutants from wetlands, growing food sources to support life during space travel, exploring forces and fluid dynamics by designing parachutes, protecting precious cargo during collisions, and many more. As you experience the instructional sequences as a learner you will also develop an understanding of how designers effectively work and think and the strategies we use to keep the STEM content at the center of the rich learning experiences.
Workshop Schedule
Day 1 AM: 3 Dimensions of Science and Engineering Standards, Differentiating Novice vs. Informed Design Behaviors and supporting STEM learners through Design activities.
Day 1 PM: Creating storylines which support scientific inquiry and engineering design opportunities:
Making a proposal for vertical farming variables to be maintained in long term space travel
Day 2 AM: Physical Science- Structures and Stability: Strategies to support Design Thinking
Day 2 PM: Creativity and Brainstorming Strategies- Keeping science topics central to idea generation:
Protecting precious cargo through collisions
Day 3 AM: How do contaminants present in small concentrations cause big problems for top level consumers?
Day 3 PM: Guided Instructional Planning and Application: Bundles and Evidence Statements
Day 4 AM: Designing solutions to prevent the harmful effects of moon dust on astronauts and sensitive equipment
Day 4 PM: Peer Review of Instructional Sequence Design Template
Day 5 AM: Stress and Strain: Applying material properties and optimization to improve the shopping bag
Day 5 PM: Completion of Instructional Sequence Design Template, Participant Presentations
Jun 19, 9:00 AM MST – Jun 23, 3:00 PM MST
Location is TBD – Phx area
STEMteachersPHX: Relationship Status – Going from Proportional Reasoning to Linear Models
Extend the models built for proportional thinking to develop an understanding of relationships between two variables.
Extend the models built for proportional thinking to develop an understanding of relationships between two variables. Collect real-world data using low-cost materials. Develop representations (graphs, data tables, equations, and verbal explanations) to distinguish between linear and non-linear relationships. Interpret the meaning of representations by making connections between them. NOTE: Math materials shared will focus on 6th, 7th, and 8th grade standards for relationships leading to linear functions.
LOCATION:
TBD, Phoenix Area
STEMteachersPHX: Going Fishing – Modeling Statistics and Probability
Incorporate models for statistics and probability throughout the school year–using low-cost manipulatives!
Incorporate models for statistics and probability throughout the school year–using low-cost manipulatives! Inspire your students with hands-on activities, such as sampling in a pond of goldfish crackers, to build statistical reasoning. Learn specific engagement techniques–powered by Modeling Instruction–to use in your mathematics classroom. NOTE: Math materials shared will focus on 6th, 7th, and 8th grade standards for statistics and probability.
LOCATION:
Zaharis Elementary School, 9410 E McKellips Rd, Mesa, AZ 85207, USA
