What's New at "ElSci"?

1/19/2007 New A link to an EDLINE home page for LSD Science (K-12) has been added to the "Useful Links" listing on the left-hand side of the primary ElSci web pages. Although this page serves currently simply as a "place holder," eventually, we hope to have this be our primary site for all science-related information for our district.
1/10/2007 New Links to information about our district's Ebersole Environmental Education and Conference Center have been added to the "Useful Links" listing on the left-hand side of the primary ElSci web pages.
11/27/2006 Update MS-Word documents listing the Michigan Curriculum Framework (2000) "constructing" and "reflecting" on science knowledge benchmarks for both the elementary school and the middle school portions of our science education program have been updated as per the September 12, 2006, vote of our Elementary Science Steering Committee (ESSC) in anticipation of expected changes to the Michigan Curriculum Framework for science by the spring of 2007. Links to these documents can be found both on the "Adopted Curriculum Modules for Elementary School Science" web page and the ESSC Information web page.
10/18/2006 Update The "Adopted Curriculum Modules for Elementary School Science" page has been updated to include the following information for each of our 22 K-5 science units: module publisher, module title, print materials format, and number of MCF (2000) "using" science knowledge benchmarks associated with the science unit. In addition, a link from each unit's benchmarks number listing displays a pop-up window with the complete text of the MCF (2000) "using" benchmarks associated with that science unit.
9/22/2006 New This page, added to our science workshops listings, provides a description of our upcoming "science and technology" PD session, to be held the morning of November 7th at Gunnisonville Elementary School. This workshop will provide an opportunity for LSD K-12 staff to share ideas for more effectively using our recently obtained HOBO data loggers and Vernier Go!Temp probes.
9/15/2006 Archive & New ESSC links and files specific to the 2005-2006 school year have been archived. (Click here to access the 2005-2006 ESSC archive web page. A similar link to this archive can be found on the current ESSC web page.) A new web page has been created for ESSC links and files for the 2006-2007 school year.

[Start of the 2006-2007 school year]
6/31/2006 New A listing with links to information about "Data Loggers and Probeware" has been added to the "Useful Links" listing on the left-hand side of the primary ElSci web pages. Of particular interest for LSD staff are likely to be the links for LSD PD and use of HOBO data loggers and Vernier's 25th anniversary giveaway of a free Go!Temp probe to each K-12 school in the USA.
6/2/2006 New A link to a MS-Word document that displays our middle school science scope and sequence has been added to the "Useful Links" listing on the left-hand side of the primary ElSci web pages.
5/8/2006 New A link for our e-Homework: Science program has been added to the "Useful Links" listing on the left-hand side of the primary ElSci web pages.
5/5/2006 New A "Science Unit Resources" page is now on-line for science unit "Kc", which includes links to information about Painted Lady caterpillars and butterflies.
4/21/2006 New "Science Unit Resources" pages are now on-line for science units "3d" and "4d." The latter includes a link to David Brigham's "Michigan Animals EcoQuest," which he presented at this year's Michigan Science Teachers Association Conference, held in Lansing in March 2006. Mr. Brigham teaches fourth grade at Attwood Elementary School.
4/19/2006 New A link to the NSTA's "Building a Presence for Science" (BaPS) web site has been added to the "Useful Links" listing on the left-hand side of the primary ElSci web pages.
1/13/2006 New A link for listing science-related "Memos, Messages, & Miscellaneous" information that doesn't readily fit into any of our other ElSci categories has been added to the "Useful Links" listing on the left-hand side of the primary ElSci web pages.
12/21/2005 New & Update Our ESSC-sponsored "Science Notebooks" PD series is being extended to include three more half-day PD sessions during the 2006 Spring Semester. A web page has been created with information about the new 2006 Spring series, and the Fall 2005 sessions web page has been updated as well.
12/20/2005 New A link for our LSD LASER Team work has been added to the "Useful Links" listing on the left-hand side of the primary ElSci web pages. With funding from the Dow Chemical Company and Hewlett-Packard, the Lansing School District sent a team of five administrators and teachers to a five-day LASER Institute in Washington DC during mid-July 2005 to begin developing a five-year strategic plan for our district's science education program. This link provides access to information about the LASER program and resources to support our continuing development and implementation of our five-year plan.
11/2/2005 New Discussions about "wind socks" in our PI-CRUST Project PLCK and PLC2 science study groups (relative to the "Ka" and "2a" weather units), and about "glaciers" in our PLC4 group (relative to the "4a: Earth Changes" science unit), have led to the creation of "Wind Sock" and "Glacier Photos" web pages. Links to the "Wind Sock" web page can be found on the unit resources pages for "Ka," "2a," and "5c." Links to the "Glacier" web page can be found on the unit resources pages for "2b" and "4a."
9/6/2005 New Beginning with the evening of September 6th, photographs of the moon each evening at about 8:35 PM are being posted to the "5a: astronomy" science unit resource page
8/29/2005 Update The "ESSC," "ESTS," and "Events" portions of our "ElSci" web site has been updated for the 2005-2006 school year

[Start of the 2005-2006 school year]
1/19/2005 New You can now find links to our "ElSci" web pages from the LSD web site. "ElSci" is listed both on the "Teachers" page and in the "Departments" listings under "Elementary Science" and "Science, Elementary."
1/18/2005 New A "Science Unit Resources" page is now on-line for science unit "4c."
1/18/2005 New Information about re-broadcast of the "4c" and "5c" cable television programs and thermometers for fifth-grade science can now be found on-line.
11/29/2004 New Additional "Science Unit Resources" pages are now on-line, including: "Kb," "4a," "4b," "5a," and "5b."
11/12/2004 New The first of our "Science Unit Resources" pages -- for LSD science units "5a" and "5b" -- are now on-line.
10/18/2004 New A page listing Current Events in Science provides links to information about upcoming and ongoing science-related events of interest at the local, global, or galactic level.
10/15/2004 New The "ESSC Information" page lists a variety of documents -- which you can download, most are MS-Word ".doc" files -- that have have been distributed at past ESSC meetings.
10/14/2004 Update The "ESSC" portion of our "ElSci" web site has been updated for the 2004-2005 school year
10/1/2004 Update Our "ElSci" web site has a new URL: http://elsci.lansingschools.net

[Start of the 2004-2005 school year]

[Start of the 2003-2004 school year]

3/1/2003 Update The web pages for the K-8 Science Workshops have been updated with information for the entire 2002-2003 school year
10/12/2002 New The agenda (with links to most handouts) for the 1a unit workshop (9/12/2002) is now available in the Workshops section
10/12/2002 Update The K-8 Science Workshops page has been updated with information about October's second-quarter unit workshops for grades 2-5
8/31/2002 Update The web pages for the Elementary Science Steering Committee (ESSC), Elementary Science Teacher Specialists (ESTSs), and K-8 Science Workshops have each been updated with information for the start of the new 2002-2003 school year

[Start of the 2002-2003 school year]

[ NOTE: Modifications made to our ElSci web site since the summer of 2002 may render non-functional many of the links described below. ]

5/7/2002 New The agenda (with related links) for the third K-8 science workshop (5/7/2002) is now available in the Workshops section
5/4/2002 New Some initial links and related pages have been created in the Science Resources section
5/3/2002 New Tables with K-5 science curriculum modules recommended for adoption and the costs for recommended modules are now available in the results portion of the FTSG section
3/26/2002 Update The results portion of the FTSG section now includes links to summary results charts with recommendations for each of our 22 science units for grades K-5
3/16/2002 Update The list of sources and modules being evaluated for possible adoption for K-5 science has been updated to reflect materials available for examination from Media Services following the 3/12/2002 K-5 science curriculum fair, and can be found as part of the results portion of the FTSG section
2/28/2002 New An expanded agenda for the second K-8 science workshop (2/27/2002) is now available in the Workshops section
2/27/2002 Addition The DRAFT 2-5 science pacing guides file now has links to relevant MI-BIG narratives as well as MI-CLiMB benchmark clarifications
2/18/2002 New Both general and science-relevant portions of the LSD Resource Materials Protocol Handbook are now available for review on-line in the FTSG section
2/13/2002 Addition A list of the co-facilitators for each grade-level FTSG has been added to the FTSG section
2/9/2002 Addition Instructions for interpreting summary results charts and a list of sources and modules being evaluated have been added to the results portion of the FTSG section
2/7/2002 New Some preliminary results from the FTSGs that are carrying out the K-5 science curriculum materials adoption process are now on-line; initially this includes summary ratings charts for units Kb, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3b, 4b, 5a, and 5b
2/6/2002 New Creation of this "What's New?" web page
2/3/2002 New The FTSG (Field Test Study Group) section of our web site has information about the current K-5 science adoption process, including copies of the analysis procedures being used and a schedule of FTSG meetings

[As results, reports, and recommendations become available from the FTSGs, we plan to make them accessible on-line in this section of our "ElSci" web site.]
2/2/2002 Addition Each benchmark in our on-line DRAFT 2-5 Science Pacing Guides now has a link to its corresponding MI-CLiMB benchmark clarification web page
2/1/2002 New DRAFT 2-5 Science Pacing Guides are now available on-line in the newly created "Pacing Guides" section of ElSci

[Currently, the DRAFT 2-5 science pacing guides are available on-line only as a single large file. Eventually, we hope to have these also available both as individual grade-level documents and as individual units.]
1/31/2002 Addition A "Presentations" section within the ESTS (Elementary Science Teacher Specialists) web page lists recent presentations by our district's three ESTSs
1/29/2002 New Our LSD "ElSci" (Elementary Science) web site goes public with its announcement at our district's Principals and ESSC meetings today

[The ElSci "Home Page" initially includes active links to information about: the Elementary Science Steering Committee (ESSC), the district's three Elementary Science Teacher Specialists (ESTS), and K-8 science workshops provided by the Office of Curriculum, Assessment, and Professional Development. The web site also has minimal "Search" capabilities.]

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