Science+Online+Training

The SDE is developing online courses for all of the new AMSTI kits that correlate to the new science ALCOS. These should all be available beginning Fall 2016.

**Eligibility Requirements:** 1. The teacher must have completed Summer Institute Year 1 __and__ Year 2 science training at a grade within the same grade band (K-5, 6-8, or 9-12). 2. The teacher must have changed grade levels to a grade within the same grade band. 3. The online training must coincide with the kit that the school is assigned to receive on the rotation schedule. **Course Requirements:** 1. Enroll in the Moodle course by the SDE-determined deadline. Registration through Google Form is to show interest; it does not enroll you in the SDE's Moodle. You do this each quarter/semester for each module. 2. Open, view, and download/save all lesson PowerPoints. 3. After teaching the lessons in the classroom, post thoughts, reply to others, and upload pictures to the discussion forums. If technical difficulties, your facilitator will accept pictures through email. 4. Complete the course evaluation. Participants enrolled in the course will receive the kit, teacher's guide, and applicable Keep In Classroom item(s) on the district truck at the beginning of the quarter. You will receive enrollment information via an email from the Professional Development Coordinator. Once enrolled, you will begin receiving emails from the facilitator. The training is self-paced, but you are encouraged to read, teach, and post each week. This will help you to complete the kit investigations with your students as well as complete the training before the kit is due back to the warehouse at the end of the quarter. These kits are required to be returned on the district truck as a part of regular kit return. Participants will then have another week to reflect on the training, post on discussion boards, and complete the course evaluation. Once the requirements are completed, the facilitator will send the Professional Development Coordinator a course completion email through the Moodle system. We will update your certification in our database, award you with STI-PD/Chalkable credit hours, and email that you have completed the requirements. You will then receive the kit every year based on the rotation schedule for as long as you teach that specific grade level at an AMSTI school. (If the COS changes and AMSTI changes our kits, then additional recertification is required. When we update our kits, we will no longer support kits that don't meet the new standards.)

AMSTI needs to receive updated rosters every year. We need to know who has changed grade levels, so that we can invite them to this training. The SDE has a spreadsheet with the eligible teachers listed; anyone else that enrolls will be removed from the online training session. Kindergarten: Plants & Animals; Weather Walk; and Push and Pull 1st: Sound, Light, & Sky; and Wild Organisms 2nd: Matter; Soils & Shores; and Plants & Bugs 3rd: Heredity & Diversity; *Weather & Climate; and Forces & Interactions 4th: Energy & Waves; Water & Landforms; and Animal Studies <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">5th: Dynamics of Ecosystems; Matter & Interactions; and Earth: Gravity & Space <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">6th: *Understanding Weather & Climate; Exploring Plate Tectonics; Researching the Sun-Earth-Moon System; and Exploring Planetary Systems <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">7th: Studying the Development & Reproduction of Organisms; Investigating Biodiversity & Interdependence; and Exploring Body Systems <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">8th: Experimenting with Forces & Motion; Electricity, Waves, and Information Transfer; Exploring the Properties of Matter II; and Experimenting with Mixtures, Compounds, & Elements <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">*Even though these kits have similar names and content, they are grade, developmentally, and COS specific. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> If you are eligible (see requirements above) and interested, please enroll using this GoogleForm.