Below are descriptions and links to more information from our 2009 participants.
Carly DeBoice—Carly is the Program Director for Telus World of Science in Calgary, AB. Her project will outline how their recent programming has had a focus on inquiry for elementary grades and how they will create learning opportunities for teens to engage with science and technology in purposeful ways.
Diana Hall—Diana teaches physics to senior high school students, gifted students, and university students in Nepean, ON. She has created a game called Relativistic Pictionary. It is fun because it combines creative writing with special relativity.
Glenn Guthrie—Glenn represents the Sahtu Renewable Resources Board in Tulita, NT. He has created and facilitated school science and traditional economy projects in five communities in the Northwest Territories including year-round trapping, hunting and fishing components. These programmes have successfully helped to keep youth in school and contributed to real world science through wildlife management, watershed investigation, and promoted partnerships between organizations and school science programs.
Julie Bolduc-Duval—Julie teaches physics and astronomy in a CEGEP in Thetford Mines, QC. She incorporates a trip to an amusement park and the design of a ride into her curriculum.
Liz Wirtanen—Liz teaches Science and Technology to 13 & 14 year olds in Saint-Jerome, QC. In this learning situation students are invited to create an innovative energy efficient home concept powered by renewable energy sources (wind, water, geothermia and sun).
Michelle Tremel—Michelle teaches junior and senior math and physics in Maymont, SK. She has developed methods to incorporate personally developed websites, wikis, and webquests into her classes as a way to engage students and extend learning beyond the classroom.
Patrick Fernet—Patrick represents ISPAJES (Ingénierie Simultanée Présentée Aux JEunes du Secondaire), a group that works directly in schools with a mission to prevent dropouts and help develop student skills. Using a technique called “concurrent engineering”, students receive a request from a customer to design, build and develop a new product according to specifics needs.
Sarah Torrie—Sarah teaches junior science and senior physics, including International Baccalaureate. She will present, "How to create an environment where students can design their own labs" sharing projects and activites that can be done from grades 9-12 that have a common inquiry rubric.
Sophie Martin—Sophie teaches grade four in Rigaud, QC. She has developed an activities based science laboratory in her school. She will present a "Bathquake" which has a focus on how to do scientific investigations building scientific knowledge.
Tina Rioux—Tina teaches junior science and senior biology courses at Evan Hardy Collegiate in Saskatoon, SK. She has attended two previous CLS teachers’ workshops and has participated in Students on the Beamlines. She is proposing the development of a Teachers Guide to SotB to make participating in this programme easier for teachers in the hopes that it will expand into the world of science beyond the synchrotron. It is a work in progress so please be prepared to offer your input.
Pedagogical Discussions -- One important aspect of SoSC is the development of Pedagogical discussions to help educators find ways to overcome obstacles.