There are still spaces available! Register now to join the Georgia DEN for SCICon 2011!

Connect with educators from all over the country, and learn about the Georgia DEN during this FREE and unique professional development experience where you can learn about the educational programming offered by the Flint RiverQuarium, participate in engaging hands-on science activities that you can use with your students, tour the RiverQuarium, and attend the Discovery SCIcon virtual conference, featuring a presentation by Reed Timmer, Extreme Meteorologist and TVN team leader, for Discovery Channel’s hit series Stormchasers!

DEN SCIcon is an online conference focused on providing participants with effective strategies for engaging students via the meaningful integration and use of digital media content in the science classroom.

Join us to meet STAR Discovery Educators in Georgia, and learn how to become one yourself!

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SCIcon at FlintRiverQuarium Schedule

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Welcome and introduction by the Georgia DEN LC and RiverQuarium Education Manager Melissa Martin

Hands-On Activity: Predator – Prey lesson with bream fish and brine shrimp (Melissa Martin)

Tour of the Flint RiverQuarium (Melissa Martin)

SCIcon Virtual Conference Sessions

12:00 PM

Top Ten Free Science Resources from Discovery Education (Porter Palmer)

1:00 PM

Hands-On Digital (Brad Fountain and Lance Rougeux)

2:00 PM

Closing Keynote: Into the Storm: Following the Love of Science (Reed Timmer)