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Roylene Arnold

Giddings ISD

 

Leslie Birkey

Wellington ISD

 

Shawn Brock

Lamesa ISD

 

Roy Brooks

Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD

 

Wanda Demboske

Nueces Canyon ISD

 

Lori Dunn

Elgin ISD

 

Jennifer Faulknor

Hillsboro ISD

 

Billy Fowler

Bryan ISD

 

Felix Gaona

Santa Maria ISD

 

Sydney Gorton

Elgin ISD

Amy Horton

Buna ISD

 

Ron Jones

Grand Saline ISD

 

Billy Lawson

Bullard ISD

 

Angela Martinez

United ISD

 

Carole Minnix

Elgin ISD

Trinidad Pina

Edcouch-Elsa ISD

 

Walter Ray

Socorro ISD

 

Susan Southerland

Bovina ISD

PEER Intensive 2002 Introductions

What Courses and Grade Levels do you teach?

PEER Intensive Goals

The overarching goal of Intensive 2002 is to provide an opportunity for middle school science teachers, to learn about this exciting program and to explore the electronic curriculum resources that are currently being developed.

Moreover, teachers will engage in intensive, hands-on sessions that provide professional development in technology integration and environmental and health science topics.

Special thanks to Shawn Brock and other teachers who field- tested curricula modules with their students during the 2001-2002 school year!

Packet Contents

Acknowledgements Schedule of Events Session Presenters Program Overview Participant Contact Information College of Education Contact Information College of Veterinary Medicine Contact Information Maps and Directions Session Handouts Session Evaluations Reimbursement Packets PEER, eEducation, and Bryan/College Station Brochures

Intensive Schedule

Numerous Hands-on Activities:

Experiments

Curricula Review/Critiques

TrackStar Project Development

PEER Program Overview

The Partnership for Environmental Education and Rural Health PEER program is a collaboration between the College of Veterinary Medicine, College of Education, and the Center for Environmental and Rural Health CERH at Texas A&M University and the Texas Rural Systemic Initiative TRSI

PEER Program Objectives

Provide access to activity based curricular materials over the Internet;

Provide regional water quality workshops;Provide a one week environmental science/

technology intensive training program with scholarships for 20 teachers/year;

Scientists Visits

PEER Professional DevelopmentInitiatives

Intensives for Science Teachers

Regional Water Quality Workshops

Teachers Received Water Quality Certification (12 Hours)

Teachers develop web-based science lessons using Trackstar or Case Study Writing Projects

Teachers Evaluate web-based curricula for use in classrooms

Resources from the Intensive and Beyond . . .

Web-based CurriculaProfessional Development

Resources for TeachersScientists Visits to

Schools Water Testing Kits Access to TrackStar

Lesson Development Tool

Scientists’ Visits Topics

Nervous System

SmokingCellsCareersToxicology

We will have two sessions on Scientist Visits.

Regional Water Quality Workshops

Regional professional development day and a half training sessions on water quality evaluation, scientific method, and use of technology in the classroom were conducted in different locations in Texas. This provided development opportunities for rural middle school science teachers

PEER Integration Project Instructional Materials

The organizing idea is to identify and develop environmental health themes that can be placed in an integrated middle school curricula for Mathematics, English, Social Studies and Science

Personal Lifestyles, Industrial Practices, Farming Practices, and Community and Government Policies themes will enable activities such as: analyzing news items, developing essays and news summaries, performing mathematical modeling and presenting statistical summaries, developing case histories in history, geography etc.

We will have Integration Project presentations at lunch time.

Introduction to Web-based Curricula

Web-based Curricula Modules Currently Available

5 Water Quality Units 5 Cell Biology Units 5 Toxic or Not Units ** 4 Organ Systems

Units ** 2 Properties of

Hazards Units ** Middle school students

field-tested several modules this past Spring semester and last year.

Web-based Curricula Framework

Lesson Objectives Pre-tests and Post-tests

with answer keys Presentation of Concepts Downloadable Student

Journal Activity Sheets for Experiments and Activities

Teacher’s Pages (Guides) An outline of science and

technology TEKS Standards that are addressed in the lesson

Organ Systems Module Focuses on five main

classes of functions that a body must perform.

Rather than just naming organs of the body and what they do, we present a perspective on the body as a coordinated group of systems

Module Units: Bodily Defenses Digestion Detoxication Gas Exchange Coordination & Control

Toxic or Not? ModuleStudents Complete lessons on different

toxin sources such as bacteria, nutrition, and air quality

Play a mystery game to find what toxic substance has made patients sick, and its sources

Modules Welcome to Your World Who Are Sam and Ella? Every Breath You Take More Than Skin Deep You Are What You Eat

Properties of Hazards Module

Focuses on  different types of hazards that we can get exposed to in our day to day life.

It includes their properties, source, route of exposure and the adverse health effects that they produce.

Module Units Invisible Intruders Life Savers or Rat Poison? ** To Solve or Not to Dissolve? ** Dangerous Living Delicious Poison

Time for a Break!

Assignments A, B, & CInstructions

I.   Refer to the attached matrix to see the three web-based module units that you have been assigned to review.

For Example, Susan Southerland will review …

Instructions Continued

II.  Select your Assignment A unit from the web navigation menu and thoroughly review each section of the unit: introduction, pretest, presentation, activities, posttest, and teachers pages.

You will follow the same steps for Assignments B & C.

Instructions Continued

IV.Thoroughly complete an attached Teacher Review Form for each unit that you have been assigned to review.

Teacher Reviews of Units

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Teachers feedback drives continual improvements on the modules.

Changes to Units

http://peer.tamu.eduUser peer Password aggies

Have fun! Your review and feedback is invaluable in the successful implementation of PEER modules in your classrooms and in classrooms across the state.