Workshop Catalog

Summer 2008

Project-Based Teaching with Engineering Design

June 16-20, 2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock

Develop your own engineering challenge for your students as you learn about project-based instruction in this hands-on workshop about engineering design.

Introduction to Robotics

June 16-20, 2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock

Build a firm foundation for using robotics in your science and technology classrooms as you design and build with Lego® Mindstorms™ NXT.

Disaster Relief

June 18, 2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Uncover the source of a disease running rampant in the wake of a tsunami as you learn lab methods for determining the distance between bacteria and viruses.

GLOBE Weather

June 19, 2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Identify the differences in climate and weather as you learn GLOBE protocals for observing and analyzing atmospheric phenomena with your science students.

Teaching and Learning with Technology

June 23-26, 2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Explore blogs, podcasts, online chats and a variety of Web 2.0 software applications as you look at the teaching merits of new media technology.

Space, Science and Engineering

June 23-27, 2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Join NASA instructors for an out-of-this-world workshop combining space education resources and engineering design challenges for the science classroom.

FOSS Chemistry

June 25, 2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Master ten FOSS investigations designed to bring real-world chemistry to your classroom and help your students understand interactions in the natural world.

STEM Teaching Strategies

June 26, 2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Learn strategies for increasing the effectiveness of STEM instruction in your classroom with inquiry-based pedagogy designed for student-centered learning.

Biotech CSI

June 27, 2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Take forensic evidence from crime scene to conviction as you use CSI techniques and science to learn new ways of teaching DNA science in your classroom.

Integrating Globe in the Classroom

July 8-10, 2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Build on GLOBE protocols for using research and analysis in your science curriculum as your students contribute to this worldwide science project.

Introduction to Rocketry: The Science of Stable Flight

July 8-11, 2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock

Design, build and launch rockets as you use hands-on learning to explore fundamental scientific concepts including Newton's Laws, Barrowman's equations and Bernoulli's Principle. Maximize flight performance using RockSim rocket simulation software to improve your rocket design.

GLOBE Land Cover

July 11, 2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Mapping and monitoring the surface of Earth is critical to conserving its resources. Learn how to build a densiometer and clinometer and use GLOBE protocols for biometry MUC classification, mapping and canopy cover.

Green Engineering

July 14-17, 2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Dive into watershed ecology as you From the water cycle and nitrogen cycle to filtration and flow rates, workshop participants will investigate watershed ecology on the South Plains. Classroom instruction will be supplemented with field excursions around the Ogallala Aquifer ecosystem in Lubbock.

Applied Robotics: The NXT Step

July 14-18, 2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock

Investigate STEM classroom applications for advanced programming with sensors and discuss the role of robotics in the curriculum as you develop lessons to use in your classroom.

Advanced Rocketry: Bigger, Faster, Higher

July 14-18, 2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Designed as a companion workshop to Introduction to Rocketry: The Science of Stable Flight, Advanced Rocketry moves beyond basic rocket projects to rockets capable of carrying payloads at supersonic speeds.

PASCO Chemistry

July 16, 2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Learn how technology can impact the chemistry lab with new standards-based experiments using PASCO® probeware and the Xplorer GLX™.

Body Systems

July 17, 2008 | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Determine the differential diagnosis for a series of puzzling symptoms in a medical hybrid of House, M.D. and Grey's Anatomy. This workshop covers National Science Standards for Life Science content standard C as well as Biology Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) related to body systems.

PASCO Physics