Cooper Center’s new website will help more people learn about who they are and what they do at the Cooper Center.
You can get to know the educational staff as they take you on virtual walks, hunts for flowers, share some of their favorite books and animals, and lead you in fun activities to do from home or in your neighborhood!
You can share with the hashtags #coopercenteraz and #virtualtucson
Cooper Center works to increase ecological understandings and deepen feelings for nature by creating lifelong memories, and by inspiring learners of all ages to live more lightly and sustainably on the Earth.
UARIZONA CAMPUS OUTREACH
The Cooper Center’s Campus Outreach Team works to integrate environmental learning into the higher education experience at the University of Arizona by bringing The Cooper Center’s educational approach to sustainability culture to higher education.
TEACHER PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS
Cooper Center partnered with Partners for Equitable Science Instruction (PESI) to help Tucson teachers get closer to nature. Teachers experienced Camp Cooper’s science teacher development workshops with hands on activities, hikes and classroom instruction.
Online, Interactive Workshops in June or July 2020
Want to integrate data literacy skills into all aspects of your teaching? Curious how to support your students learning data skills during remote teaching?
Join DATASPIRE for their Data Literacy Series this summer
June 2-18, 2020 and July 7-16, 2020!
Through a series of short, 1.5-hour, online, interactive workshops they will dive into seven common areas that trip up students when working with and learning through data. Each workshop includes tips and tricks of integrating data literacy into what you already do, examples of common students misconceptions, hands-on activities, and discussions to reflect on how to modify activities for your classroom that address the data literacy skill.
The workshop is open to all subject areas and those that work with students in grades 3 – 12+ that are interested in pursuing more successful ways to integrate data into their teaching (in formal and informal settings).
In essence, they will unpack what is involved in teaching with data!
When It Occurs & What to Expect
Join for all, a couple, or just one of the 1.5-hour workshops. Materials will be provided at every workshop and a 30-minute consultation relating directly to your teaching setting and the data literacy concept following the online workshop is included. Come network with colleagues and other data-interested educators.
The series includes:
Identify Different Types & Sources of Data (June 2nd or July 7th, 3:30-5:00pm EDT)– What is the best data to use? Where can I find those data? How can I best access online data?
Create & Iterate Data Visualizations (June 3rd or July 8th, 3:30-5:00pm EDT)– How can I use graphs to explore the data? Which is the best graph to use? How can my students make those graphs?
Identify Patterns & Relationships in Your Data (June 4th or July 9th, 3:30-5:00pm EDT)– How can they see the overall pattern? What is the best way to see relationships? How can my students find these trends?
Identify & Explore Variability in Your Data (June 9th or July 13th, 3:30-5:00pm EDT)– What does the variability teach us? When should I use averages vs all data? How do we teach the probability of it all?
Use Statistical Thinking with & Evidence from Data (June 11th or July 14th, 3:30-5:00pm EDT)– How does statistical thinking help? How can we reason from evidence in data?
Draw Conclusions & Make Inferences from Data (June 16th or July 14th, 3:30-5:00pm EDT)– What can I say from my data? What can I not say from my data? How can I best draw conclusions?
Communicate the Findings Through Multiple Ways (June 18th or July 15th, 3:30-5:00pm EDT)– How can I communicate this best? When should I seek/receive feedback? What makes the communication work?
To apply: You must be a 3-12th grade educator, as well as be willing to dive into data.
Preference is provided to those that apply for each workshop at least a week in advance. Applicants will receive notification of acceptance and additional information a week before each event. Space is limited for these runs of the Data Literacy Series in order to support a productive online experience.
A Social Emotional Learning (SEL) 4-week webinar series focused on Fostering Emotional Learning and Educator Emotional Resilience
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, TREC is redesigning the in-person Social Emotional Learning Summit (originally scheduled for June 6th) into a month-long webinar series convening each Tuesday in May, from 3:00pm – 4:30pm. The topics of the original summit: Social Emotional Learning and Educator Emotional Resilience are more important than ever as teachers adapt to the changing needs of teaching during a pandemic. Specifically, this webinar series will begin by focusing on teachers’ management of stress, teachers’ well-being, and teacher self-care. The last two webinars in the May series will focus on supporting student well-being, social emotional learning, and trauma-informed classrooms.
