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Mobile Professional Development

Mobile Professional Development

For SMILE Teachers & Educators

  • Science & Engineering Practices
  • Disciplinary Core Ideas
  • Crosscutting Concepts

What is Mobile Professional Development?

SMILE staff members deliver professional development workshops for teachers across the state discussing Next Generation Science Standards and providing STEM curriculum.

Presentations

  • What is the SMILE Program?
  • NGSS Introduction
  • Demystifying the NGSS
  • Science and Engineering Practices Circus
  • Cross Cutting Concepts Speed Dating and Station Rotation
  • Marshmallow Challenge

Lessons

  • Build a Boat for Scientific Research
  • Brewing for Bioenergy
  • Insect Tea Party
  • Magnificent Macronvertebrates: Build-A-Bug
  • Making Gel Beads
  • Marshmallow Challenge
  • Save the Penguins
  • Scribbler Machines
  • Slip, Sliding Away
  • Story of the Beaver
  • Think Like a Beaver

NGSS Guides

  • 3-5-ETS1-2 Evidence Statements
  • 4-PS3-2 Evidence Statements
  • A Framework for K-12 Science Education
  • Criteria for Evaluating Phenomena
  • Cross Cutting Concept Stems
  • Finding Evidence
  • K-2-ETS1-2 Engineering Design
  • K-PS3-2 Energy
  • NGSS DCI Arrangements of the Next Generation Science Standards
  • NGSS Resources

Additional Resources

Below are links to some additional curriculum shared at a recent training.

  • All About Owls
  • Field Investigations (helping students develop questions)
  • Home, Home in a Stream
  • Solar Eclipse

Contact Info

SMILE Program
Oregon State University
18 Gladys Valley Center
Corvallis, Oregon 97331
Phone: 541-737-0534
Email: SMILEprogram@oregonstate.edu

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