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October 2022 PESI Newsletter          Volume 2 Issue 8

PESI’s Fall Support Campaigns

We at Partners for Equitable Science Instruction (PESI) hope the Monsoons have helped your area of Tucson come to life!   
With cooler temperatures hanging around those thermometers, we’re sure to be breaking out the coats and hot cocoa – YUM! Can’t you just feel fall in the air! Late summer and early autumn events have kept us busy here at PESI. In this issue, you’ll find:

• PESI News

• Local District News

• School Outreach and District Support 

• Support PESI with Jim Click Raffle Tickets

• PESI Supporting Teachers

• Teacher PD opportunities

• Classroom grant opportunities

• Teacher Resources

• Science at Home Activities

• Upcoming Meetings and Events

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The 2022 ASTA Annual Conference,

“3D Roadmapping for the Future”

  will be taking place on November 3rd & 4th

      at the Arizona Challenger Space Center

        17835 N 44th St, Phoenix, AZ 85032

PESI is offering *$100 scholarships

to attend the 2022 ASTA Annual Conference

 Take advantage of ASTA’s Early Bird Registration Sale through October 15, 2022!

Send your scholarship request & contact information to

pesitucson@gmail.com

*One scholarship per person.

**Five $100 scholarships will be awarded!

Apply today!

CLICK HERE for ASTA’s Conference Registration page

*If accepted for an ASTA 2022 Conference Scholarship, PESI does require that you register and pay for the conference in advance and forward a copy of your paid registration to pesitucson@gmail.com.

**A final conference review, including how you intend to use information learned at the ASTA Conference in your classroom, is also required.

GBH Education, co-producer of PBS LearningMedia is seeking a grade 3-5 AZ science teacher who might collaborate with us on the National Science Foundation proposal described below.  Interested/curious educators can respond to Carolyn_jacobs@wgbh.org who will introduce you to the project lead, Shawn Stevens, Director, STEM Curriculum and Instruction for much more background.  Please respond by August 22^nd.  (Feel free to pass this along to your colleagues.)

GBH Education is currently working on an NSF DRK-12 proposal for the project, One Earth for All Peoples, which focuses on creating instructional materials for Grades 3–5 that focus on Earth as a system and the role that people play in that system. 

 To prepare students to understand and deal with complex issues like climate change and its impacts, it should be beneficial to start kids building proficiency considering complex systems in the elementary grades. We’d like to develop project-based learning (PBL) units to engage students in socio-ecological phenomena in the Earth system that are relevant to their lives and address the impacts that various factors have on local environments and communities. The resources will address NGSS performance expectations and Geography standards related to the interactions between people and the physical environment. We will investigate how students’ ideas about the Earth as a system, and their role in it, develop during the Grade 3–5 level.