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If you are near the mountains of North Carolina, or just want to take a beautiful day trip, join Mark Jankowski, NC DEN Star and LC Member, for an awesome event for National Geocaching Day! This event is for pros and muggles alike. Don’t worry if you don’t have your own handheld GPS device either. [...]

The Exploring Joara Foundation is offering summer workshops for formal and informal educators. Participants explore the science of archaeology through a combination of classroom activities and archaeological fieldwork. Worth up to 2.0 CEUs. Sessions in Morganton, NC: June 24th – 25th July 19th – 20th On the first day, participants learn fundamental concepts of archaeology [...]

You are invited to join NCSSM by videoconference for these upcoming professional development opportunities:   Evaluating Student Thinking: make learning visible with technology-facilitated formative assessment To make informed instructional decisions, we must constantly assess how our students are thinking about content. It is critical to monitor student’s fluency, their capacity for higher-level thinking, and understanding [...]

Western North Carolina Gravity Games Soapbox Races Shift into High Gear for Second Year Google and ASU look for teams from 30 western NC Counties who want STEM skills to shine (CALDWELL COUNTY/LENOIR, N.C.) – It’s time for a rematch. Back and better than ever. Come Saturday, April 28, Google and Appalachian State University (ASU) [...]

The National Wildlife Federation has two upcoming webinars of interest. One starts in less than an hour, but no worries! It will be made available later on the website and there are also two future webinars.   Eco-Schools USA’s Sustainable Schools Webinar Series   UPCOMING WEBINARS:   April 11, 2012: Introduction to our New Pathways. [...]

The North Carolina School of Science and Math offers excellent outreach in STEM areas for NC teachers through workshops, collaborative efforts and presentations. They are now offering free webinars too! Check out this excellent list of live and archived webinars to help you meet your classroom STEM and Common Core objectives. Here’s a description of [...]

Are you an innovative math teacher? Do you have a unit that you students just love to do every year?   Speakers are needed for the 2012 State Mathematics Conference, October 25-26, 2012, Greensboro, NC The 2012 State Mathematics Conference is a wonderful opportunity to share research, classroom strategies, activities, and resources with your colleagues [...]

Tomorrow, in my fifth grade class, we are reading Freedom on the Menu. This picture  book depicts the actions of a few brave students in Greensboro, North Carolina, who staged a sit-in at the lunch counter in Woolworth’s. Their actions had a significant impact on the Civil Rights Movement in the South and perpetuated the idea [...]

On Thursday, March 7, almost 40 educators from all over North Carolina gathered after the first day of NC TIES at the Mellow Mushroom in Raleigh for some DEN fun, food, and fellowship. A wonderful group of educators shared their experiences with putting the “N” into DEN, and how they have built personal and professional [...]

This week, we kick off the annual NC TIES Conference in Raleigh, NC. This year, lots of North Carolina DEN STARS will be presenting at this excellent technology in education conference. Don’t miss them!   In order of appearance: Location:  303 Thursday 11:20am-12:20pm Tra-Digital Storytelling Learn how to blend traditional  storytelling through puppetry with today’s [...]

I attended this conference on Saturday at the Friday Institute on NC State Campus . It was a great day for learning new strategies and learning about the future of textbooks. Discovery introduced some of the the features that are included with Science Techbooks. The first presentation was given by Lance Rougeux, his talk centered [...]

Are you headed to NC TIES in a few weeks? Do you live in the Raleigh area? Join us for the 2nd Annual Dining with the STARs at NC TIES on Thursday, March 8th from 6-8 PM at the Mellow Mushroom on Peace Street. We want to celebrate our NC STARs and introduce other DEN [...]

A FREE Professional Development Institute for Teachers   Tuesday July 17th, 1PM – 5:00PM Wednesday, July 18th, 9AM-5:00PM Thursday July 19th, 9AM-4:00PM At the North Carolina Botanical Garden UNC-Chapel Hill   This two and ½ day teacher professional development institute will provide participants with opportunities to hear energy experts at UNC address the energy realities [...]

The PRISM AWARD Promoting Innovation in Science and Mathematics Supports teachers in their efforts to promote excitement for science and mathematics in the classroom. Open to all public K-12 North Carolina teachers. Provides up to $3000 to cover the cost of equipment, materials, and supplies to implement hands-on science and mathematics curriculum in the classroom. [...]

This is From http://alternativeenergyatunc.wordpress.com/ could be a future field trip? “This one of a kind project is currently being tested right here in NC! The new solar double cropping project in Pittsboro, NC is an experiment designed to show that you can have a solar photovoltaic system and grow sustainable crops that thrive in partial [...]