Spring 2017 Monthly Team Meetings
For the second year of Project ExCEL, we are switching the focus from science of the bay to a focus on engineering. In January, we began...
Project ExCEL Mini Conference
In December, the Project ExCEL teachers held a mini conference at SFSU. The teachers shared what how they were implementing the NGSS...
Fall 2016 Monthly Team Meetings
We met three times in the fall of 2016 for monthly teacher team meetings. In September, teachers looked at the Mystery Science lesson,...
Summer Institute: Ocean Beach
On our last day of the Summer Institutes, teachers investigated Ocean Beach, paying close attention to the sand on the beach. We looked...
Summer Institute: Communicating Findings at RTC
Thursday. Back at the RTC to share out our findings from the Baylis research. We opened the day with an engineering challenge:...
Summer Institute: Baylis Research Vessel
Today was the day most of us were looking forward to! (However, some of us had concerns about seasickness.) We spent the day on the...
Summer Institute: Planning Investigations at RTC
On Tuesday, at the Romberg Tiburon Center, we started the day like we started most days of the institute: by noticing, wondering, and...
Summer Institute: China Camp
On the first day of the Project ExCEL 2016 Summer Institute, teachers, project leaders, and specialists from the National Estuarine...
Teacher Meeting: February
Project ExCEL teacher teams meet jointly once a month to explore aspects of the NGSS and integration across the curriculum. Each session...
Project ExCEL Kickoff
This was the kickoff meeting for teachers participating in Project ExCEL. You can find a .pdf of the agenda here. Project ExCEL teacher...
