Feast
Fun Exchanges and Activities for Science Teachers
Have you been looking for new, exciting, teacher-tested ideas for your science classroom? Or perhaps you’ve wanted to have a discussion about science resources, safety in the lab, or how other teachers manage a certain science demonstration or other activity? Or maybe you simply want to network with other science teachers and build a lasting friendship with other science educators. If this is what you’re looking for, we welcome you to FEAST. FEAST is truly a grass roots effort that began with a small group of about 8 secondary science teachers in the fall of 2005.
Today our FEAST list has grown in size to over 200 teachers. We meet once a month during the school year and topics are selected by the FEAST teachers. Most of our sessions invite teachers to share lessons and demonstrations around a particular topic such as "Energy" or "Toys in Science" or "Climate Science," etc. However, we also have visiting speakers who might present a half day workshop. All of these experiences are conducted on Saturday mornings. There is no cost to join or participate as long as you are an educator. However, we do want to emphasize that the reason the FEAST sessions have become so successful is because of the sharing that goes on. By sharing one of your favorite lessons around a particular topic, other educators can gain access to yet another idea. You’ll find our sessions to be very casual yet welcoming to all who wish to share. We hope you will join us at one of our future sessions.
FEAST (Fun Exchanges and Activities for Science Teachers) would like to welcome all teachers to attend our next session:
Special Events and Holiday Tricks (or Treats)
Back by popular demand, we will repeat this festive session. What are some of the cool demos or activities that you reserve for those upcoming special holidays, events, or celebrations like Halloween, Earth Day, the National Science and Engineering Day, the Double Helix or π Day, etc. At this session, we’d like you share an activity that is linked to such an event. Also, what connections have you been able to make to your science curriculum when using one of these activities? If you don’t have an activity, find one that you’d like to try out – see if the group can guess what event you’re recognizing and how it might connect to a science topic. Bring your ideas, demonstrations and/or lessons and share how you connect students with science and collect a few ideas for yourself while you’re at it. This topicembraces all disciplines: biology/physiology, chemistry, physics, earth science and more.
In an effort to model green practices, we would like you to bring a thumb drive with an electronic version of your lesson to share. We will have a couple of laptops available to load your files into a folder that can then be downloaded to each of your drives.
If you’ve never been to one of our FEAST sessions, we invite you to attend. These sessions are free and sustain themselves through Chabot’s funders who support teacher professional development. This is a great opportunity for you to network with your peers, learn from each other and walk away with teacher tested ideas. We hope you can join us. Don’t forget to bring something to share! Here are the details:
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Date: Saturday, October 13, 2012 Time: 9am to Noon Room: Chem/Physics Lab Facilitators:
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Please RSVP so we can get an idea how many of you will be attending. You may respond to Stan Fukunaga at: sfukunaga@chabotspace.org
Be sure to include the following information: your name, school/city, grade level and/or subject taught, and e-mail address.