Big Brothers Big Sisters Virtual Event
Date: May 5
Time: 4:00–5:00pm ET
Introduce students (middle school and high school) to engineering with electric circuits and a number of hands-on activities utilizing copper tape, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and other basic components.
Smithsonian Women in Color Virtual Panel
Panel featuring Robin Kumoluyi, Shelina Ramnarine, and Wilai Kosol
Big Brothers Big Sisters In-Person Event
When: May 19, 2022
Where: Livingston Elementary School, New Brunswick, NJ
Help students design a suture model with gummy worms and observe how a chemical reaction can change the properties of the model
2022 STEM Education Summit: Building a Coalition for Attracting and Retaining A Diverse STEM Teaching Workforce
At the STEM Education Summit, 20 teams of educators from diverse regions across the nation embrace their roles as change agents to create plans for attracting and retaining STEM teachers from underrepresented populations at the school, district, or state-level. Selected teams are matched with a mentor who is carefully selected to fit the unique composition and needs of their team.
Design with Nature Virtual Event – New York City
The Design with Nature Virtual Event is a live, virtual session for Girl Scouts in grades K-5 to earn the third badge in the Math in Nature badge series, Design with Nature. Attendance is by invitation only. This event is being hosted by [Insert full council name] in collaboration with J&J employee volunteers. During the event, attendees will begin as one group, then Girl Scouts will go into breakout rooms to complete the badge activities for their level, and finally return for the Closing Ceremony & Awards as one group. At the event:
Daisies will go on an animal adventure! They’ll count birds, identify animal tracks, and make their own adventure map.
Brownies will have a pollinator party! They’ll learn how important bees, hummingbirds, and other animals are to our planet. They’ll tell the age of a tree, explore the shape of beehives, and build their own bird feeder.
Juniors will hold a cozy campout! They’ll explore how fast humans and animals move, choose a map trail for their campout, calculate its elevation, and pack their equipment, including food, water, and other supplies.
Register online
Talking About Vaccines: How can we support challenging conversations through science?
Join the SSEC and invited guests as we explore having challenging conversations about vaccines within our own schools, communities and families. We will explore investigations from the Vaccines! How can we use science to help our communities make decisions about vaccines? guide to better understand how to engage those around us in talking about vaccines. We’ll invite the audience to consider ways that they, too may be able to engage their communities in conversations about vaccines.
Design with Nature Virtual Event – Florida
The Design with Nature Virtual Event is a live, virtual session for Girl Scouts in grades K-5 to earn the third badge in the Math in Nature badge series, Design with Nature. Attendance is by invitation only. This event is being hosted by [Insert full council name] in collaboration with J&J employee volunteers. During the event, attendees will begin as one group, then Girl Scouts will go into breakout rooms to complete the badge activities for their level, and finally return for the Closing Ceremony & Awards as one group. At the event:
Daisies will go on an animal adventure! They’ll count birds, identify animal tracks, and make their own adventure map.
Brownies will have a pollinator party! They’ll learn how important bees, hummingbirds, and other animals are to our planet. They’ll tell the age of a tree, explore the shape of beehives, and build their own bird feeder.
Juniors will hold a cozy campout! They’ll explore how fast humans and animals move, choose a map trail for their campout, calculate its elevation, and pack their equipment, including food, water, and other supplies.
Email Jessica Henderson to register for the event.
This event runs from 3:15–4:15pm ET.
Design with Nature Virtual Event – Georgia
The Design with Nature Virtual Event is a live, virtual session for Girl Scouts in grades K-5 to earn the third badge in the Math in Nature badge series, Design with Nature. Attendance is by invitation only. This event is being hosted by [Insert full council name] in collaboration with J&J employee volunteers. During the event, attendees will begin as one group, then Girl Scouts will go into breakout rooms to complete the badge activities for their level, and finally return for the Closing Ceremony & Awards as one group. At the event:
Daisies will go on an animal adventure! They’ll count birds, identify animal tracks, and make their own adventure map.
Brownies will have a pollinator party! They’ll learn how important bees, hummingbirds, and other animals are to our planet. They’ll tell the age of a tree, explore the shape of beehives, and build their own bird feeder.
Juniors will hold a cozy campout! They’ll explore how fast humans and animals move, choose a map trail for their campout, calculate its elevation, and pack their equipment, including food, water, and other supplies.
Email Betsy Connell to register for the event.
This event runs from 10am–12pm ET.
Awesome Girls: Tackling Global Public Health Challenges
Join Girl Scouts of the USA and Johnson & Johnson for Awesome Girls: Tackling Global Public Health Challenges. During this virtual event, Girl Scouts, Girl Guides, and girls from around the world will explore global public health challenges with a panel of experts and girls who have earned their Highest Awards as they present and answer questions about their work around pressing issues such as COVID-19 and mental health. Girl Scouts who participate in the event will also get started on the Global Action Award. This event is designed for girls in grades 6–12.
Register for the event
Design with Nature Virtual Event – New Jersey
The Design with Nature Virtual Event is a live, virtual session for Girl Scouts in grades K-5 to earn the third badge in the Math in Nature badge series, Design with Nature. Attendance is by invitation only. This event is being hosted by [Insert full council name] in collaboration with J&J employee volunteers. During the event, attendees will begin as one group, then Girl Scouts will go into breakout rooms to complete the badge activities for their level, and finally return for the Closing Ceremony & Awards as one group. At the event:
Daisies will go on an animal adventure! They’ll count birds, identify animal tracks, and make their own adventure map.
Brownies will have a pollinator party! They’ll learn how important bees, hummingbirds, and other animals are to our planet. They’ll tell the age of a tree, explore the shape of beehives, and build their own bird feeder.
Juniors will hold a cozy campout! They’ll explore how fast humans and animals move, choose a map trail for their campout, calculate its elevation, and pack their equipment, including food, water, and other supplies.
Email Catalina Walsh to register for the event.
This event runs from 1–3pm ET.
Design with Nature Virtual Event – Pennsylvania
The Design with Nature Virtual Event is a live, virtual session for Girl Scouts in grades K-5 to earn the third badge in the Math in Nature badge series, Design with Nature. Attendance is by invitation only. This event is being hosted by [Insert full council name] in collaboration with J&J employee volunteers. During the event, attendees will begin as one group, then Girl Scouts will go into breakout rooms to complete the badge activities for their level, and finally return for the Closing Ceremony & Awards as one group. At the event:
Daisies will go on an animal adventure! They’ll count birds, identify animal tracks, and make their own adventure map.
Brownies will have a pollinator party! They’ll learn how important bees, hummingbirds, and other animals are to our planet. They’ll tell the age of a tree, explore the shape of beehives, and build their own bird feeder.
Juniors will hold a cozy campout! They’ll explore how fast humans and animals move, choose a map trail for their campout, calculate its elevation, and pack their equipment, including food, water, and other supplies.
Email Kathryn Vore to register for the event.
This event runs from 10am–12pm ET.
Design with Nature Virtual Event – Florida
The Design with Nature Virtual Event is a live, virtual session for Girl Scouts in grades K-5 to earn the third badge in the Math in Nature badge series, Design with Nature. Attendance is by invitation only. This event is being hosted by [Insert full council name] in collaboration with J&J employee volunteers. During the event, attendees will begin as one group, then Girl Scouts will go into breakout rooms to complete the badge activities for their level, and finally return for the Closing Ceremony & Awards as one group. At the event:
Daisies will go on an animal adventure! They’ll count birds, identify animal tracks, and make their own adventure map.
Brownies will have a pollinator party! They’ll learn how important bees, hummingbirds, and other animals are to our planet. They’ll tell the age of a tree, explore the shape of beehives, and build their own bird feeder.
Juniors will hold a cozy campout! They’ll explore how fast humans and animals move, choose a map trail for their campout, calculate its elevation, and pack their equipment, including food, water, and other supplies.
Email Tiffany Davies to register for the event.
This event runs from 3:30–5pm ET.
Integrating Culturally Based Instructional Practices into STEM Classrooms Day 2
This PD will help educators to understand the evolution of culturally competent instructional practices and explore how they overlap with principles of universal design for learning (UDL), to prepare them to develop goals that:
Prioritize culturally relevant, responsive, and sustaining teaching.
Ensure that all students, regardless of ability, are provided stimulating and equitable STEM learning experiences.
The first of the two-day PD will begin with expert-led presentations and discussions that explore definitions and strong examples of culturally based strategies and accessible practices, before asking teachers to think about the similarities between both practices and how educators have successfully managed to account for both in their lesson and classroom design.
Using the content from the first day, teachers will spend the second day applying their learnings to a framework for socio-scientific issues (SSI). The second day will wrap up with sessions dedicated to individual goal setting and networking, to encourage participants to identify a specific area of growth they want to work on and how they plan to attract support from newly formed and preestablished relationships to achieve their goals.
Registration ends Thursday, September 30, 2021.
Professional Development Schedule
Day 1: Saturday, October 2, 2021
Time: 10am–5pm Eastern
Culturally Relevant, Responsive, and Sustaining Teaching
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Cross-Pollination of Culturally Relevant and Universally Designed Teaching Practices
Day 2: Saturday, October 9, 2021
Time: 10am–2:30 pm Eastern
Framework for Socio-scientific Issues
Individual Goal Setting
Networking
Learn more at ssec.si.edu.
Integrating Culturally Based Instructional Practices into STEM Classrooms Day 1
This PD will help educators to understand the evolution of culturally competent instructional practices and explore how they overlap with principles of universal design for learning (UDL), to prepare them to develop goals that:
Prioritize culturally relevant, responsive, and sustaining teaching.
Ensure that all students, regardless of ability, are provided stimulating and equitable STEM learning experiences.
The first of the two-day PD will begin with expert-led presentations and discussions that explore definitions and strong examples of culturally based strategies and accessible practices, before asking teachers to think about the similarities between both practices and how educators have successfully managed to account for both in their lesson and classroom design.
Using the content from the first day, teachers will spend the second day applying their learnings to a framework for socio-scientific issues (SSI). The second day will wrap up with sessions dedicated to individual goal setting and networking, to encourage participants to identify a specific area of growth they want to work on and how they plan to attract support from newly formed and preestablished relationships to achieve their goals.
Registration ends Thursday, September 30, 2021.
Professional Development Schedule
Day 1: Saturday, October 2, 2021
Time: 10am–5pm Eastern
Culturally Relevant, Responsive, and Sustaining Teaching
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Cross-Pollination of Culturally Relevant and Universally Designed Teaching Practices
Day 2: Saturday, October 9, 2021
Time: 10am–2:30 pm Eastern
Framework for Socio-scientific Issues
Individual Goal Setting
Networking
Design with Nature Virtual Event – California
The Design with Nature Virtual Event is a live, virtual session for Girl Scouts in grades K-5 to earn the third badge in the Math in Nature badge series, Design with Nature. Attendance is by invitation only. This event is being hosted by [Insert full council name] in collaboration with J&J employee volunteers. During the event, attendees will begin as one group, then Girl Scouts will go into breakout rooms to complete the badge activities for their level, and finally return for the Closing Ceremony & Awards as one group. At the event:
Daisies will go on an animal adventure! They’ll count birds, identify animal tracks, and make their own adventure map.
Brownies will have a pollinator party! They’ll learn how important bees, hummingbirds, and other animals are to our planet. They’ll tell the age of a tree, explore the shape of beehives, and build their own bird feeder.
Juniors will hold a cozy campout! They’ll explore how fast humans and animals move, choose a map trail for their campout, calculate its elevation, and pack their equipment, including food, water, and other supplies.
Email Laura Childers to register for the event.
This event runs from 4–5:30pm PT.
Smithsonian K-12 Science Education Action Planning Institute
Event location: Virtual
Event website: ssec.si.edu
Registration is now open!
The Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC) is holding its second fully virtual, free Action Planning Institute this summer, from July 27-29, 2021. Through a series of live and asynchronous meeting opportunities, individuals and teams will tackle the challenge of ensuring K-12 science education serves the needs of all teachers and learners, whether it is taking place online, in the classroom, or in a hybrid learning environment. Together participants will have a chance to share lessons learned from the past year, explore how to integrate best practices in online and in-person K-12 science education, address issues of learning loss and learning recovery in STEM, and discuss new America Rescue Plan funding opportunities. This institute is open to educators, parents, community members, and industry stakeholders dedicated to providing high-quality K-12 teaching and learning for all. Participants can attend as an individual or as a team with members of their school, district, or organization. Sessions will include how we approach Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion in the K-12 education space, how we support learning to address learning loss, how we support teachers as we transition back to in-person learning, and what resources are available to undertake this work. Participants will then create action plans to articulate meaningful connections between their knowledge and practice.