Lab-Aids Kits / SEPUP Issue-Oriented Science

Event Title	California Science Education Conference
Location:	Sacramento Event Center, Sacramento, CA
Date(s):	10/22/2010 - 10/24/2010
Time:

Workshop:	Teaching Properties of Materials - Get Them Sorting! Participants classify 20 element cards based on criteria of their own design and resort them using scientist's criteria from the modern day periodic table
Date/Time:	10/23/2010 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location:	Room 319

Workshop:	Genetically Modified Organisms and the Regulation of Gene Expression Take home activities on the mechanisms that regulate gene expression in differentiating cells and some genetically modified agricultural crops. Activities are from SEPUP's Science and Global Issues course.
Date/Time:	10/22/2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:	Sacramento Convention Center, Room 308

Workshop:	Alternative Energy for Transportaion: Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Explore SEPUP's new hydrogen fuel cell module, which teaches chemistry standards such as conservation of energy, stoichiometry, redox reactions, and thermodynamics. Take away an activity on fuel cell chemistry
Date/Time:	10/22/2010 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location:	Sacremento Convention Center, Room 308

Workshop:	Real Chemistry for All Students, But How? Participants experience hands-on exploration of a flameless heater doing several chemical reactions. Hands-on engages students in chemistry creating the context to learn recording chemical reactions.
Date/Time:	10/23/2010 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Location:	Sacremento Convention Center, Room 319

Contact Name:	Pat Lewis
Contact Phone:	702-240-7882
Contact Email:	plewis@lab-aids.com

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I teach SEPUP because it packages “good science” in a manageable, hands-on program. In SEPUP, students are hooked with a high interest issue and then investigate the science surrounding it. The process of science is learned by actually doing science. Students make decisions about the issue based on the evidence they have acquired.

Is SEPUP effective? Repeatedly I hear parents comment, “My child never liked science before this year,” or “We always know what is going on in science because we discuss it at dinner.” A measure of effectiveness is student engagement. SEPUP not only engages students but also requires them to think critically, a skill that will remain with students throughout their lives.

Donna Markey, Teacher
Vista, CA

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