Events


Regional/National Meetings and Conferences

We encourage you to visit our booth and talk with our staff of veteran teachers about incorporating Introductory Physical Science or Force, Motion, and Energy into your curriculum.

For more information, click on the links below.


SCI Summer Workshops for Teachers

The promotion and support of quality science teaching has been the cornerstone goal of SCI since the inception of the company. We fervently believe that the best IPS and FM&E teachers are those who are trained in the instructional materials they use.

To support this effort, five percent of what your school pays for IPS and/or FM&E copyrighted materials, over the consecutive three-year period ending May 31, 2010, will be credited toward the tuition costs for teachers attending SCI-approved national or regional workshops.

In addition to the extensive in-service training programs provided by many schools and school districts, IPS and FM&E teachers have summer workshop opportunities available as shown below. In each IPS and FM&E workshop, participants work with the authors and experienced teachers to perform all experiments, discuss pedagogy, and share classroom management and safety tips.

Introductory Physical Science - Part A
July 25 through July 30 at Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
Instructors: Graden Kirksey, Peter Gendel
Credit: 2 semester hours
Tuition: $300
This workshop covers Chapters 1-5 of the new 9th edition of Introductory Physical Science to enhance your content knowledge and classroom practice. (Note: The topics covered in Chapters 1-5 are the same in the 7th, 8th, and 9th editions.) Experience student experiments and develop an understanding of basic concepts, laboratory skills, safety issues, and classroom management. Reading, reasoning, and communication will be addressed in the context of properties of matter, solutions, and mixtures. The use of software in student experimentation and the evaluation of student work will be discussed.

Force, Motion, & Energy
July 25 through July 30 at Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
Instructor: Bob Stair
Credit: 2 semester hours
Tuition: $300
This workshop covers all seven chapters of the Force, Motion, and Energy curriculum encompassing: 1) force and pressure in equilibrium, 2) motion of objects and waves, and 3) thermal, potential, and kinetic energy. You will perform 17 experiments. For each experiment and for reading sections, teaching strategies, classroom management, safety issues, and the questions students pose will be addressed.

Introductory Physical Science - Part B
August 1 through August 6 at Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
Instructors: Graden Kirksey, Peter Gendel
Credit: 2 semester hours
Tuition: $300
This workshop covers Chapters 6-11 of the new 9th edition of Introductory Physical Science. (Note: This includes all of the topics covered in Chapters 6 10 of the 7th and 8th editions of IPS plus a new chapter on molecular motion.) Perform all student experiments, discuss classroom strategies, basic concepts, laboratory skills, and safety issues. Reading, reasoning, and student communication will be addressed in addition to the use of software in student experimentation and the evaluation of student work.

Introductory Physical Science - Part C
August 1 through August 6 at Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
Instructor: Bob Stair
Credit: 2 semester hours
Tuition: $300
This workshop covers an entire alternative branch included in the new 9th edition of Introductory Physical Science. Topics include energy, force, motion, and Newton s laws. This workshop will help you enhance your classroom practice as you experience student experiments and develop an understanding of basic concepts and laboratory skills. As in the other 9th edition workshops, reading, reasoning, and student communication will be addressed in addition to the use of software in student experimentation and the evaluation of student work.

Additional regional workshops may be scheduled as interest and number of participants warrant.

Lodging on the Colorado School of Mines campus will be available for each of these courses for an additional fee (to be determined by CSM).

Please give us a call at 888-501-0957 or email [email protected] if you have questions about any of these workshops.