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Get your hands and minds working at NCES!
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Dates: July 31 & August 1, 2017 from 9:00 to 3:00
With a history dating back to the mid 1990’s, MINDSTORMS is a well established robotics kits for upper elementary through middle school and beyond. The current version of the MINDSTORMS kit is based on the EV3 programmable brick, a very durable unit with four inputs, four outputs, and plenty of computing power for a very wide range of science and engineering design projects. This workshop will give the participant everything from a “getting started” experience through intermediate topics in programming, structures, and mechanisms. This workshop is for beginner/intermediate teachers interested in using MINDSTORMS in classroom projects, after school clubs, and FIRST LEGO League competitions.
Location
North Country Education Services, 300 Gorham Hill Road, Gorham, NH
Other Details
Breakfast refreshments and lunch provided—we may not be able to meet all special dietary requirements.
Registration Required
Though session is free to NH educators, pre-registration is required.
Register or call 603-466-5437 between 8:00-3:00
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Instructors: Bill Church and Steve Roberts
Dates: August 3 & 4, 2017 from 9:00 to 3:00
During this skill building two day workshop, you will learn or review the use of STEM construction tools for cutting, drilling, fastening, gluing, soldering, and prototyping a range of STEM builds. You will also learn strategies for using low and medium risk tools with students (e.g. glue guns, soldering irons, and power tools). Finally, you will put your tool use into practice with fun quick, medium, and large scale projects from scratch such as stomp rockets, hovercrafts (small and human sized), pinewood derby tracks, rumble racer tracks, catapults (small and large), and kiddie pool sized boats and submarines.
Location
North Country Education Services, 300 Gorham Hill Road, Gorham, NH
Other Details
Breakfast refreshments and lunch provided—we may not be able to meet all special dietary requirements.
Registration Required
Though session is free to NH educators, pre-registration is required.
Register or call 603-466-5437 between 8:00-3:00 |
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Turning Words, Sentences & Stories
into Student-Created Art Books
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 Instructor: Deborah Stuart
Date: Thursday, August 10, 2017 from 9:00 - 3:00
For many students, particularly those struggling with language and self expression, writing of any kind is challenging; these students often feel defeated and frustrated and consider themselves failures in this critical area. Yet students who are challenged writers – and those limited in oral expression – often are very excited about working with the colorful, varied materials used in making art books. Very often their strengths emerge in these creative activities, as the use of multiple modalities inspires a new level of engagement and connection. This motivation brings a new excitement and commitment to writing.
This workshop is designed to introduce ways to motivate young writers on any academic level so that they can gain skills in the process of writing through appealing exercises in poetry, imaginative expression and journaling. Attention will be given to differentiating and adapting the lessons to fully include students with learning differences and disabilities. Various ways to capture self-expression will be demonstrated, including use of poet-scribes and oral expression; work with a range of colorful teacher-made letter and word manipulatives; and satisfying writing activities for emerging writers and ASL students.
We'll also look at ways to have students create unique books, utilizing visual arts strategies to motivate them in their writing and editing. A wide variety of art techniques and materials, easily assembled for classroom use, will be introduced and used. These “books as art” offer a range of methods to engage students and to celebrate their writing using affordable -- and often free -- materials. All activities can be linked to Common Core learning goals for classroom language arts programs.
Presented by the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire & VSA New Hampshire as part of their Arts in Inclusive Learning collaboration, under a contract with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Fee: $20 plus $10 materials fee, with discounts for Arts Alliance members (both schools & individuals) and students. Partial scholarships are available if needed.
Location
North Country Education Services, 300 Gorham Hill Road, Gorham, NH
Other Details
Please bring a lunch.
Register via the Arts Alliance of Northern NH
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High Altitude Balloons Launch
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Date: School day sometime between September 18 and 29 depending on weather and high pressure conditions for launch.
Join a Berlin High School team as they launch a science experiment to 100,000 feet. Other schools are invited to include experiments to ride along in the BHS payload container. This could include temperature data logging, UV exposure data logging, wind speed, fast plant seed exposure to low temps and high radiation environments. We will deploy at least two camera systems to photograph the entire journey to space and back.
Teachers interested in participating in the launch and/or recovery or in having students design an experiment should send an email to lori@ncedservices.org for more information.
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