Navigating the New Normal in Schools with the Smithsonian Science Education Center

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Navigating the New Normal in Schools with the Smithsonian Science Education Center

Students across the US and around the world are heading back to school in person, some for the first time in over a year. But the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over, and teachers are facing the challenge of how to engage their students in conversations around COVID-19, and the COVID-19 vaccine. The Smithsonian’s Vaccines&US portal and the Smithsonian Science Education Center are supporting the public to build an understanding of the underlying science of COVID-19, the public health measures we can each take to protect ourselves and others, and the decades of science behind the COVID-19 vaccines that are our best defense against the virus. Smithsonian Science Education Center is committed to supporting educators and students in these challenging conversations, and will hold a series of programs in September and October, sharing the Smithsonian Science for Global Goals guides: COVID-19! How can I protect myself and others? and Vaccines! How can we use science to help our community make decisions about vaccines?

Please join us! 

October 13, 2021, 6:00pm-7:00pm ET

COVID Conversation and COnnection with Sisterhood Inc. of New Jersey

Join the Smithsonian Science Education Center and Sisterhood Inc. of Burlington, New Jersey for COVID Connections and Conversations. The Smithsonian Science Education Center will be sharing Vaccines! How can we use science to help our communities make decisions about vaccines? and discussing how we can bring more people into the vaccines conversation. This will be accompanied by hands-on explorations of the Vaccines! guide. You can view the recording of the session here.

October 26, 2021 6:00-7:15pm ET

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. 
View the recording of this conversation here!  

Postponed: Check back soon for updated date and time

Exploring COVID-19! How Can I Protect Myself and Others? with an NGSS lens through the NGSS Teacher Companion Guide

In collaboration with the National Science Teaching Association, the Smithsonian Science Education Center is releasing a Next Generation Science Standards Teacher Companion Guide that seeks to aid educators in their use of the Smithsonian Science for Global Goals COVID-19! How can I protect myself and others? community response guide in their classrooms. This webinar will assist educators in teaching about the underlying science of COVID-19 in an NGSS-aligned way. This event have been postponed. Please check back soon for registration information. 

Past Event: September 16, 2021, 6:30pm ET

Discover–Understand–Act: A Deep Dive into the Smithsonian Science for Global Goals Learning Framework

A part of the Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society webinar series, this session will  provide a deep dive into the Smithsonian Science for Global Goals  learning framework, using the Vaccines! guide as a model. We'll walk through some approaches to use this framewokr and content in your  own contexts. View the recording through the Kappa Delta Pi Resource Library.