Posts Tagged ‘science’

This is the third video in a series from Symphony of Science.  They are all really cool, but this new one is my fav I think.

Ok, this could get messy. I apologize in advance for those that I’m about to annoy.
I’ve spent the last 2 days at the STAO Conference, which is a great conference for science teachers to learn new things, get new resources, share the best teaching ideas and go back to their schools energized and ready [...]

STAO – Day 2

Day 2 of STAO had a weird start for me. I woke up intending to run up to ECOO for the day, as there were a number of session that I wanted to attend. Unfortunately I didn’t feel very well. I actually started to drive up the 401 HWY to get to [...]

STAO – Day 1

Thursday was the opening day of STAO’s annual conference for Ontario Science teachers. Its a great conference and always has lots of great sessions to chose from. I thought I’d give some highlights of some of the sessions I attended.
A very good start to the conference was given by Dr. David Galbraith, who talked [...]

I’m spending 4 days in a row at conferences. Today was SCCAO – Science Coordinators and Consultants Association of Ontario. It’s a meeting of school board science leaders from across the province. About 40 of us were on site 1 day before STAO begins in the morning. It was a really [...]

It’s been a week since I found out that I’d been selected to go on an expedition with Students On Ice this summer. There are so many things to think about and write about, but first, a little background is in order. This blog post and the ones that will follow it will be [...]

The Ontario Ministry of Education has released the new documents for 9-12 science.  There are some major changes to the documents, maybe the largest of which is a change in philosophy around assessment and STSE.  There are a lot of preperations going on across the provice to enable teachers to be prepared to implement these [...]