Course Format:   Face-to-Face Online Hybrid

Description:  Spend a day exploring the colorful world of chemistry. Learn how color can provide information to chemists and how humans use chemistry to color their world. Participants will experience laboratory activities and demos that are appropriate for secondary science students, including chromatography and fabric dying. One chromatography activity will immerse participants in scientific inquiry. Participants will leave with an increased understanding of the connections between chemistry and color . . . and a really cool tie dye shirt!

Instructor(s):  Sandy Smith, M.A.,
Sharon Freehill, M.A.

When:  Saturday, October 11, 2008 . . . . . 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Where:  CSU-Pueblo Chemistry Building, Lab Rms. 304 & 305

Course Cost:  Free to current PK-12 educators

Course Credits:  .5 Semester Hour University Graduate Credit/Recertification Credit through the Division of Continuing Education . . . . . $26.25

Required Reading/Materials:  Provide t-shirt size with registration or plan to bring a 100% cotton item to tie dye.

Course Notes:  Especially for Grades 6 - 12. Provide t-shirt size with registration or plan to bring a 100% cotton item to tie dye. Bring a sack lunch. Parking: Please park in lot W-3 to avoid being ticketed. http://www.colostate-pueblo.edu/maps/

Course Requirements:  Current PK-12 Educator

Course Prereqs:  NA

Sponsor:  Partially funded by the Colorado Association of Science Teachers

Course Format:   Face-to-Face Online Hybrid

Description:  Become more comfortable with the whys and hows of weather. Lesson ideas and activities about various aspects of weather and the instruments that measure them will be provided, all implementing the Scientific Process. Everyone will participate in complete lessons involving experiments and investigations and the applicable integration of math, geography, elementary physics, and data analysis.

Instructor(s):  William Fortune, Chief Meteorologist,
Kathleen Torgerson, Meteorologist,
Brenda Leyh, M.A.,
Barb Leonard, M.A.,
Candice Musso, M.S.

When:  Friday, October 24 and Saturday, October 25, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Where:  CSU-Pueblo Satellite Office of the Division of Continuing Education (Housed in the Citadel Bank) 730 Citadel Drive East, Suite 300-C, Colorado Springs, 80909

Course Cost:  Free to current PK - 12 Educators

Course Credits:  1 Semester Hour University Graduate Credit / Recertification Credit through the Division of Continuing Education ........... $52.50

Required Reading/Materials:  NA

Course Notes:  Especially for Grades 3 - 8.

Course Requirements:  Current PK - 12 Educators

Course Prereqs:  NA

Sponsor:  

Course Format:   Face-to-Face Online Hybrid

Description:  We will use the spanish history and culture legacy trunk that belongs to the southeastern Colorado Heritage Center. This educational

Instructor(s):  Eileen Gose, M.Ed.

When:  Saturday, November 15....10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Where:  Southeastern Colorado Heritage center, 201 West B Street, Pueblo, 81003

Course Cost:  Free to current PK-12 educators

Course Credits:  .5 Semester Hour University Graduate Credit / Recertification Credit through the Division of Continuing Education.............$26.25

Required Reading/Materials:  N/A

Course Notes:  Especially for Grades 3 - 7

Course Requirements:  Current PK - 12 educators

Course Prereqs:  NA

Sponsor:  

Course Format:   Face-to-Face Online Hybrid

Description:  Teaching Reading With the Big Five will focus on how to apply Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Fluency into a balanced reading program to meet state literacy standards while fostering a strong foundation for CSAP success. Participants will compile a notebook of activities and strategies based around each literacy component to enhance their reading program and improve student achievement. Opportunities to create lessons and materials using favorite trade books.

Instructor(s):  Debbie Mulay, M.Ed.,
Heather Holcomb, B.S.

When:  Saturday, September 27 .. 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tuesday, September 30 ..... 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. Thursday, October 2 ..... 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 7 .....4 p.m. - 7 p.m. Thursday, October 9 ..... 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 21 ..... 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. Thursday, October 23 ..... 4 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Where:  South Mesa Elementary School, 23701 Preston Road, Pueblo, 81006

Course Format:  On-campus

Course Cost:  N/A

Course Credits:  N/A

Required Reading/Materials:  N/A

Course Notes:  Especially for Grades PK - 2. Bring a sack lunch or we can order pizza for Saturday, September 27.

Course Requirements:  Current PK-12 Educator

Prerequisitee:  NA

Sponsor:  

Course Format:   Face-to-Face Online Hybrid

Description:  Learning is too often treated like a solitary enterprise, but the great thinkers remind us that as social beings students learn best collaboratively as ideas bump up against the ideas of others. Through grappling with important problems, analyzing multiple perspectives, and tackling challenging content, students become not only engaged in their learning but also learn deeply.

Instructor(s):  Stevi Quate,
John McDermott

When:  Friday, June 6 from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Where:  CSU-Pueblo, Occhiato University Center

Course Format:  On-campus

Course Cost:  General......................................$100 Student Partner...........................$25 SCTEA Induction Program........No Charge Novice, First Year Teacher (2007-2008)

Course Credits:  One

Required Reading/Materials:  None

Course Notes:  Essential questions for the day: Why have students work in groups? What is essential in order for groups to work effectively? How does a classroom become an authentic community of learners? How does a teacher structure group work so that students are grappling with important problems, analyzing multiple perspectives, and tackling challenging content? What are the roles of assessment and grading in group work?

Course Requirements:  None

Prerequisitee:  None

Sponsor:  None

Course Format:   Face-to-Face Online Hybrid

Description:  This geoscience education course will provide an opportunity for teachers to gain an understanding of earth's surface processes (formation of sedimentary rocks) while learning how read a variety of topographical maps and use student compasses. Students will participate in virtual classroom lecture and labs as well as virtual field labs. Partipants will take a pre- and post test on the material covered.

Instructor(s):  Roy Ewing, M.S. Geology

When:  Friday, March 2 & Saturday, March 3<br>9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where:  CSU-Pueblo, Library Wing Rm. 316

Course Format:  On-campus

Course Cost:  N/A

Course Credits:  N/A

Required Reading/Materials:  N/A

Course Notes:  None

Course Requirements:  None

Prerequisitee:  None

Sponsor:  None

Course Format:   Face-to-Face Online Hybrid

Description:  Learn how to incorporate science notebooks and other tools of science to reinforce your student's natural curiosity about science while strenghtening their literacy and math skills. Using these tools and physical science activities will help students become better scientists and better learners. Each participant will bet a "Back to School" kit to implement the learned strategies with their own students.

Instructor(s):  Carol Brueggeman, MAT Integrated Natural Sciences,
Saverio Greto, Jr., M.A. Education

When:  Saturday, February 3 & Saturday, February 24<br>8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Where:  CSU-Pueblo, Library Wing Rm. 316

Course Format:  On-campus

Course Cost:  N/A

Course Credits:  N/A

Required Reading/Materials:  N/A

Course Notes:  None

Course Requirements:  None

Prerequisitee:  None

Sponsor:  None

Course Format:   Face-to-Face Online Hybrid

Description:  This course will focus on the following topics: soil as a resource, soil texture, soil horizons and profile descriptions, soil forming factors including soil chemistry. Indoor and outdoor soils labs (weather permitting) will be included.

Instructor(s):  Suellen Melzer, M.S. Geology

When:  Friday, January 19 & Saturday, January 20<br>9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where:  CSU-Pueblo, Library Wing Rm. 316

Course Format:  On-campus

Course Cost:  N/A

Course Credits:  N/A

Required Reading/Materials:  N/A

Course Notes:  None

Course Requirements:  None

Prerequisitee:  None

Sponsor:  None