Teacher Workshop

An Aqua STEM One-Day Workshop

Explore Arizona's water resources with real world, hands-on learning, while using phenomenon to activate the 3-Dimensions of science instruction!

Join our Aqua STEM professional development workshops to learn how to engage your students with our ready-made science and engineering units, helping them become builders of their own knowledge. All Aqua STEM units are designed to accommodate students in 6th-12th grade levels, and to fully or partially meet multiple Arizona Science Standards.

We've recently redesigned the full Aqua STEM units and shortened them to four core lessons to support your busy schedule. Now it's easier than ever to integrate high quality instruction focused on Arizona's water systems.  All Aqua STEM units are based upon a simple systems thinking framework that will deepen student thinking and enhance comprehension. 
 

Systems Thinking and Water Resources Registration - June 28, 2022

This one-day workshop will show you how to promote student engagement using four different inquiry structures: making distinctions, seeing part-whole systems, uncovering relationships, and understanding perspectives, also known as DSRP. This instructional practice offers a process for thinking more deeply about any subject. We highly recommend taking this Systems Thinking workshop as a primer for the Water in Arizona or Riparian Field Investigation workshops.

Total of 7 hours of professional development

BENEFITS FOR ALL AQUA STEM UNITS:

• Real world and relevant curriculum ready for classroom use
• Lessons help students grapple with standards-based content
• One classroom lesson facilitated by APW staff
• Ongoing support and coaching from APW staff
• Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide 2.0
• 7 hours of Professional development

Systems Thinking and Water Resources

DATE:  Tuesday, June 28, 2022

HOURS: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM

FORMAT: In-person. Lunch will be provided.

Location: Maricopa County Cooperative Extension, 4341 E. Broadway Road, Phoenix, AZ 85040

OPEN TO: 6-12th Grade Teachers in Maricopa County. Teachers from other counties may join on a space available basis.

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Explore the Colorado River Watershed STEM Academy

Access to Colorado River water from the Central Arizona Project aqueduct is essential to the environmental and socioeconomic well-being of all Arizonans. 

Join us for this 2-day academy in which we will apply the science and engineering practices and cross cutting concepts to explore the Colorado River Watershed. We will engage in argument from evidence about past, present, & future management of the Colorado River. 

BENEFITS:

• 13 hours of professional development
• $150 stipend upon completion
• Discover a Watershed: The Colorado Educators Guide
• Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide 2.0
• Continuous support from APW coordinators
• Lunch both days

SCIENCE STANDARDS CORRELATIONS:

• 5.L4U3.11 - Obtain, evaluate, and communicate evidence about how natural and human-caused changes to habitats or climate can impact populations.

• 6.L2U3.11 - Use evidence to construct an argument regarding the impact of human activities on the environment and how they positively and negatively affect the competition for energy and resources in ecosystems.

• 6.L2U1.13 - Develop and use models to demonstrate the interdependence of organisms and their environment including biotic and abiotic factors.

• 7.E1U1.5 - Construct a model that shows the cycling of matter and flow of energy in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.

• 8.E1U3.8 - Construct and support an argument about how human consumption of limited resources impacts the biosphere.

• HS.E1U1.12 - Develop and use models of the Earth that explains the role of energy and matter in Earth’s constantly changing internal and external systems (geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere).

• HS.E1U3.14 – Engage in argument from evidence about the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, changes in climate, and human activity and how they influence each other.

• HS.L2U3.18 – Obtain, evaluate, and communicate about positive and negative ethical, social, economic, and political implications of human activity on the biodiversity of an ecosystem.

2022 Teacher Academy Details

DATE: June 8 & 9, 2022

TIME: 9:00 AM -3:30 PM both days

LOCATION: University of Arizona - Maricopa Agricultural Center, 37860 W. Smith-Enke Road, Maricopa, AZ 85138

OPEN TO: 5th-12th grade teachers in Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima Counties.

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An Arizona Project WET and SRP STEM Academy for 4th-8th grade teachers

An invaluable week of discussion, thinking and learning where we will explore using: 

• Core Ideas
• Cross Cutting Concepts
• Science & Engineering Practices
• Phenomena

You will be tasked to develop solutions to the question:

“If you were SRP, how could you use your 100+ years of experience to manage water for our growing desert city’s next 100 years?”

We will:

• Develop and use models to identify parts of a watershed, simulate the effects of hot crown fires on runoff, and produce energy to do work.
• Engage in argument from evidence to describe the relationships between surface water and groundwater.
• Analyze & interpret tree ring data and relate the evidence to watershed management.
• Construct explanations and design solutions to efficiently and effectively produce energy and do work.
• Obtain, evaluate, and communicate historical information and evidence and apply it to discover solutions for the future. 

Only 30 seats available. You must apply to be considered for this 5-day opportunity. Submit your application today! Link below.

BENEFITS:

• 30 hours of professional development
• $250 stipend upon completion!
• Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide 2.0 (NSTA-recommended)
• Healthy Water, Healthy People Water Quality Educator's Guide
• Discover a Watershed - The Colorado Educator's Guide
• Arizona Conserve Water Educator's Guide
• Continuous support from APW coordinator

2022 Salt River Project STEM Academy

DATES: June 20-24, 2022

TIME: 8:00 AM-3:30 PM every day.

LOCATION: SRP PERA Club in Tempe.

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Teachers join on Zoom from 10-11:30 AM daily on June 22-24.

Includes 2.5 hours of out-of-class work.

For 4th grade teachers in Tucson.

Learn more about this workshop HERE!

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