Office of Educational Outreach

Come participate in "cool chemistry" science activities that you can use to help your students learn about the structure of matter and the effect electrons can have on things in the world around us. Safety applications to help your students perceive and avoid dangerous situations will be stressed. Science activities will be TEKS aligned.

If you’ve ever experienced frustration with the complexity or expense of the common probeware available, then you will be amazed and pleased at the newest choice in probeware, noted for its low price and extreme ease of use. Come and experience this brand new product that is taking the education world by storm. You will not be disappointed.

Join us for an engaging hands on session integrating elementary science, math, reading and writing. All participants will receive a Delta Science Reader and Language Arts Skillbuilder that they will be able to take back to their classroom.

This workshop will information and activities on the Big Bang Theory and the Origins of Our Solar System. Bring a flash drive if you want copies of the Powerpoint.

Is your chemical storeroom a mess? Are there chemicals that have been on your shelves since you were in school? Don’t know where to start? Join us for a quick overview that will tune up your safety skills and finally get your chemical storage organized. Hands-on workshop using OSHA compliant chemical storage, reading chemical labels, and understanding MSDS sheets. Over $100 of FREE Materials to all participants.

Use photogate technology and a virtually frictionless car to confirm Newton’s Laws of Motion. Through data collection and graphing students will see how the laws of physics apply to real life situations. Hands-on fun with equipment and doorprizes!

Teachers will be engaged in hands-on inquiry-based activities that explore the circuits and the big ideas behind them, such as "Series and Parallel Circuits." Teachers will then engage in experiments to provide stunning training in making your own mixed circuits. Science activities will be TEKS aligned and clarified through the benchmarks of science literacy. These activities will get you stimulated! A handout is provided to all participants.

Use a one-of-a-kind creature building system to explore the role chance plays in an organism’s heredity. Model how the environment may influence a species’ traits using inquiry strategies. Don’t stop at the Punnett square, take it to a new level. Hands-on fun with equipment and doorprizes!

Density is one of the most misunderstood concepts in science, yet it forms the foundation for understanding many other concepts and processes, such as buoyancy, diffusion and osmosis. In this session, participants will learn to demonstrate and facilitate “hands-on”, inquiry-based investigations that lead students to a conceptual understanding of density.

View, capture, create. Increase the WOW factor in your elementary classroom and middle school science lab with this state of this art technology. An inquiry-based, hands-on workshop using the powerful software and user friendly digital microscope, DigiScope! Motivate and meet the needs of all learners. The DigiScope extends the senses while you observe the finer details of life and earth science. Capture videos, create jpgs, produce digital lab journals, and insert videos into your PowerPoints. Doorprizes!

Experience the elegant choreography of science, movement, art and prose as you explore the properties of ice as matter using a curriculum module from the MESSENGER Mission to Mercury. Create concrete perceptual experiences that lead to developing conceptual understanding! Leave with the curriculum CD and many additional resources.

Join us for an engaging, hands on, inquiry based session integrating elementary science, reading, math and writing while addressing our State Science Standards. All participants will receive a Delta Science Reader and a Language Arts Skillbuilder to take back to their classrooms.

Does Earth Science have you exasperated? Need strategies that can help? Come see how these activities and Science Cut Ups can support your students in learning these concepts. Door prizes and lots of cuttin' up!

Edusmart Science is a teacher-centric tool designed to elevate teacher content knowledge. Edusmart Science is also a 99% TEKS aligned, next-generation digital resource that’s grade-specific, easy to use, and designed entirely around research-based effective instructional strategies.

Join us for this workshop and learn how to prepare your students for the future: 21st Century science education using 21st Century science methods and tools. Deliver 21st Century science experiments by combining standards-based content and relevant professional development with innovations in modern electronic measurement.

Many students perform better on science achievement tests after completing engineering design activities compared to guided inquiry lessons. Engineering design activities provide hands-on learning, authentic products, and experience with how useful science can be. Handouts: Standards-based, classroom-tested resources using project based learning (PBL) instruction in secondary science classes.

Join us for an engaging, hands on inquiry based session integrating science, math and language arts at the middle school level. All participants will receive a Delta Science Reader and a Language Arts Skillbuilder to take back to their classrooms.

Project E³: Expanding Energy Education guide is an interdisciplinary enhancement to energy education emphasizing an offshore energy theme. Come find out how you can receive this free guide, free tour of the Ocean Star Museum, and check out privileges to our traveling trunks, the Knowledge Box and Playing with Petroleum Kit.

Participants will be engaged in a mock lesson about conjectures/classifying while learning about journaling in Math and Science Class. Those in attendance will leave with materials. Feel free to bring a USB, flash drive or PC to get your free data.

Have you been looking for some activities to teach about fossil fuels? Come to this workshop and receive curriculum and experience performing some of these activities on the topics of coal, oil and gas, and oil sands. Free curriculum and door prizes will be given.

Recent research in science K-16 instruction has brought to light many tightly held misconceptions student have constructed regarding concepts in science. Through the use of FACTS and collected student responses, teachers will be given tools to uncover these commonly held beliefs and strategies for assisting student to reconstruct the concepts correctly.

Hands-on workshop where participants will build and program robots to perform both simple and advanced challenges, interpret sensor feedback to determine threshold values, develop conditional statements, and explain the results of their testing.

What are science eyes and why should all elementary teachers have them? Come find out and build your own set of science eyes while exploring a model for exemplary elementary science teaching.