Focus on Energy Professional Learning
The Focus on Energy Summer Workshop empowers elementary teachers to incorporate foundational energy ideas accurately and effectively in their own curriculum.
The 30-hour face-to-face workshop includes three strands:
Explore core ideas about energy
- Engage in hands-on, standards-based classroom activities
- Use science practices such as model-building and constructing scientific explanations
- Probe and refine your own energy ideas while guided by a scientist
- Learn to track the flow of energy from collisions to sunlight shining on solar panels
Learn to build on students’ ideas about energy
- Listen to children talk about energy, read transcripts of interviews with children, and examine student work
- Identify productive ideas and practices that students bring to their studies
Plan to integrate energy learning in your classroom
- Reflect on how and where workshop activities and experiences can strengthen your science curriculum
- Propose how you will build these activities into your science program
The Focus on Energy Summer Workshop empowers elementary teachers to incorporate foundational energy ideas accurately and effectively in their own curriculum.
The 30-hour face-to-face workshop includes three strands:
Explore core ideas about energy
- Engage in hands-on, standards-based classroom activities
- Use science practices such as model-building and constructing scientific explanations
- Probe and refine your own energy ideas while guided by a scientist
- Learn to track the flow of energy from collisions to sunlight shining on solar panels
Learn to build on students’ ideas about energy
- Listen to children talk about energy, read transcripts of interviews with children, and examine student work
- Identify productive ideas and practices that students bring to their studies
Plan to integrate energy learning in your classroom
- Reflect on how and where workshop activities and experiences can strengthen your science curriculum
- Propose how you will build these activities into your science program
