Feast
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.
Sizzling September Science Openers
It’s time for our first FEAST session of the new school year. Do you want to get your students jazzed about science from the opening month? Have you already identified the collection of demos/activities that you know will set the tone for the school year? It’s important to get your students attention early and deliver what could be their most exciting year of science. Since we all have our own collections of "Sizzling September Science” openers, we would like to invite you to share one or two of your favorites at this first session. Bring your techniques, ideas, demonstrations and/or lessons on how you connect students with science and bring on the "WOW FACTOR." The beginning of the school year is a great time to show students that science is all around them. This topic is open for all disciplines: biology/physiology, chemistry, physics, earth science and more. Please also consider the reason why you selected a particular activity for the first month of the school year. We all have our reasons and it would be interesting to hear the thinking behind all of your ideas.
If you’ve never been to one of our FEAST sessions, we invite you to attend. These sessions are free and sustain themselves through the efforts of all of you. 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 at our first session. Here are the details:
Sizzling September Science
Saturday, September 11, 2010 (9am - 12pm)
Room: Biology Lab
Facilitators
- Tracy Ostrom and Tim Ostrom, OUSD Secondary Science Teachers
- Tanya Phillips, Former Chemistry Teacher
- Stan Fukunaga, Chabot Staff