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