Launching the New School Year
Another summer has come and gone and a new school year is here. For some teachers, this means building relationships with new students and implementing new curriculum and lessons. JASON Learning is here to help you jump start the year with exciting and engaging STEM lessons. We hope you will take advantage of one or more of our fall professional development opportunities.
JASON Learning’s comprehensive professional development program is designed to increase teachers’ general expertise in implementing inquiry-based STEM curricula in the classroom and prepare them to use JASON with their students. During our face to face P.D., participants work in groups to perform activities from the curriculum, explore web resources, and discuss best practices for implementation. Here’s a look into some upcoming workshops.
ARGO Math Workshops
Join us for a 2 day workshop on September 24 and 25 at the Klein ISD Multipurpose Center.
This workshop is open for any teacher to join. Register online: https://argomathtx19.eventbrite.com
Read on to learn more about the curriculum.
ARGO Math
Discover how math skills, ideas and applications are an essential part of the science, technology and engineering that underpins our modern society — from helping to keep animals out of trash, to creating better and more efficient places to live, to accelerating our communication networks, to stopping global disease pandemics — and build the knowledge, experience and confidence to use math effectively in your daily life.
Geometry: Here’s Looking at Euclid
The Geometry unit of JASON’s ARGO Math is titled “Here’s Looking at Euclid” to honor the Greek scholar and the mathematics he developed. In Greek, “geometry” means “to measure earth.” Euclidean geometry is the study of plane (two-dimensional) and solid (three-dimensional) figures. In this unit, you’ll explore real-world connections between perimeter, area, and volume; lines, angles, and polygons; and coordinate geometry and the Pythagorean theorem.
Through immersive, hands-on learning experiences, supported by Math-Mapper, a revolutionary, learner-centered math learning tool developed by researchers at North Carolina State University, gain and apply foundational math skills. Through these activities grow your critical and design thinking skills, and develop your data analysis and modeling skills.
Along the way, meet STEM role models from entrepreneurs, to researchers, to community workers who apply math daily in their work, and participate virtually in some of their projects. Get ready to go BIG with your math.
Design & Pitch
Your mind is full of ideas about how to make the world a better place. This is your chance to start turning those ideas into reality.
Design & Pitch Challenges in STEM ask you to examine significant problems in real-world circumstances and consider how you can create solutions. You will meet inventors and entrepreneurs who share their insights into the process of creation, from concept to prototype, pitch, production, and distribution. You will encounter a selection of Challenges that can be approached from many angles, using different areas of knowledge, techniques, and technology.
It is your task to come up with an innovative solution to a Challenge and create a short, engaging pitch to convince a panel of investors that it’s worth funding. Be clear, be concise, and be convincing! The world needs your big ideas.
Texas Fall Conference
September 24 and 25, 2019
Klein ISD Multipurpose Center
7500 Farm to Market 2920
Klein, TX 77379
This two day conference is free to any Texas JASON Learning District educators and $100 if you are a member of the Teacher Consortium.
Sessions range from 4–8th grade Sciences, Social Studies, High School Aquatic Science, IPC and Physics, Environmental Systems, Earth and Space Science, ARGO Math and Design & Pitch.
To register: https://forms.gle/Pa2taSxxCT6CEg1S9
JASON also offers web-based “virtual” sessions hosted by our expert trainers. Learn more about JASON’s approach to science teaching and learning through live tutorials on topics including curricula content, standards alignments, JASON resources, and the JASON online platform. All sessions encourage real-time Q&A with our trainers to assist with your specific needs.
View the full schedule online: https://www.jason.org/professional-development
Just getting started with JASON? Learn how to navigate the JASON Gated Site by watching this 10 minute demo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/139LpRCfij_fouI2OAVrkaBKxYKi5qf-j/view
