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Summer is just around the corner and many summer school programs are geared up to accept applications. Plan ahead and make sure your student is enrolled in the best program for his or her needs. SSPP Reads offers this list
as a courtesy to our readers only and recommends you speak with your child’s teacher for recommendations.
Summer is just around the corner and many summer school programs are geared up to accept applications. Plan ahead and make sure your student is enrolled in the best program for his or her needs. SSPP Reads offers this list
as a courtesy to our readers only and recommends you speak with your child’s teacher for recommendations.
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March 8 was declared International Women’s Day in 1911 (see International Women’s Day 1911-2011) and has evolved in the US into a month-long celebration honoring the contributions of women to the human story. This year, the National Women’s History Project (NWHP) theme for Women’s History Month is Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (see this blog’s posts: Science Technology Engineering Math– Stem , Sally Ride 1951-2011, and Developing Literacy page for STEM links).
About 20 years ago, I participated in the Bay Area Science Project (BASP) through Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science. It was a fabulous six-week teacher workshop conducted at St. Mary’s High School in Berkeley. We covered lots of STEM topics, and, explored the FOSS and GEMS programs. A focus of the workshop was to bring hands-on science into the schools. One of the lead instructors brought in a lovely science themed calendar demonstrating one small way to include science on a daily basis in the classroom. Marie Curie was the only woman celebrated in the calendar. I commented about the lack of gender equity in the calendar and was surprised to hear the instructor declare, “Well, there really aren’t any of note.” This was Berkeley! I was motivated to find and share the legions of women scientists who had not received public acclamation for their work. Fast forward 20 years, and I was delighted to read about the STEM theme of Women’s History Month.
NWHP honors 18 STEM women.
The 2013 Honorees represent a remarkable range of accomplishments and a wide diversity of specialties including medicine, robotics, computer programming, atmospheric chemistry, architecture and primatology. These women’s lives and work span the centuries of American history and come from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. We are proud to honor them and all women seeking to advance these important fields.
Drum roll please:
- Hattie Elizabeth Alexander (1901–1968) Pediatrician and Microbiologist
- Marlyn Barrett (1954) K-12 STEM Educator
- Patricia Era Bath (1942) Ophthalmologist and Inventor
- Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910) Physician
- Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898–1979) Physicist and Inventor
- Edith Clarke (1883–1959) Electrical Engineer
- Rita R. Colwell (1934) Molecular Microbial Ecologist and Scientific Administrator
- Dian Fossey (1932–1985) Primatologist and Naturalist
- Susan A. Gerbi (1944) Molecular Cell Biologist
- Helen Greiner (1967) Mechanical Engineer and Roboticist
- Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992) Computer Scientist
- Olga Frances Linares (1936) Anthropologist and Archaeologist
- Julia Morgan (1872–1957) Architect
- Louise Pearce (1885–1959) Physician and Pathologist
- Jill Pipher (1955) Mathematician
- Mary G. Ross (1908–2008) Mechanical Engineer
- Susan Solomon (1956) Atmospheric Chemist
- Flossie Wong-Staal (1946) Virologist and Molecular Biologist
Graphic Rosie Tech from Claremont Port Side.
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March 8 was declared International Women’s Day in 1911 (see International Women’s Day 1911-2011) and has evolved in the US into a month-long celebration honoring the contributions of women to the human story. This year, the National Women’s History Project (NWHP) theme for Women’s History Month is Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (see this blog’s posts: Science Technology Engineering Math– Stem , Sally Ride 1951-2011, and Developing Literacy page for STEM links).
About 20 years ago, I participated in the Bay Area Science Project (BASP) through Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science. It was a fabulous six-week teacher workshop conducted at St. Mary’s High School in Berkeley. We covered lots of STEM topics, and, explored the FOSS and GEMS programs. A focus of the workshop was to bring hands-on science into the schools. One of the lead instructors brought in a lovely science themed calendar demonstrating one small way to include science on a daily basis in the classroom. Marie Curie was the only woman celebrated in the calendar. I commented about the lack of gender equity in the calendar and was surprised to hear the instructor declare, “Well, there really aren’t any of note.” This was Berkeley! I was motivated to find and share the legions of women scientists who had not received public acclamation for their work. Fast forward 20 years, and I was delighted to read about the STEM theme of Women’s History Month.
NWHP honors 18 STEM women.
The 2013 Honorees represent a remarkable range of accomplishments and a wide diversity of specialties including medicine, robotics, computer programming, atmospheric chemistry, architecture and primatology. These women’s lives and work span the centuries of American history and come from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. We are proud to honor them and all women seeking to advance these important fields.
Drum roll please:
- Hattie Elizabeth Alexander (1901–1968) Pediatrician and Microbiologist
- Marlyn Barrett (1954) K-12 STEM Educator
- Patricia Era Bath (1942) Ophthalmologist and Inventor
- Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910) Physician
- Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898–1979) Physicist and Inventor
- Edith Clarke (1883–1959) Electrical Engineer
- Rita R. Colwell (1934) Molecular Microbial Ecologist and Scientific Administrator
- Dian Fossey (1932–1985) Primatologist and Naturalist
- Susan A. Gerbi (1944) Molecular Cell Biologist
- Helen Greiner (1967) Mechanical Engineer and Roboticist
- Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992) Computer Scientist
- Olga Frances Linares (1936) Anthropologist and Archaeologist
- Julia Morgan (1872–1957) Architect
- Louise Pearce (1885–1959) Physician and Pathologist
- Jill Pipher (1955) Mathematician
- Mary G. Ross (1908–2008) Mechanical Engineer
- Susan Solomon (1956) Atmospheric Chemist
- Flossie Wong-Staal (1946) Virologist and Molecular Biologist
Graphic Rosie Tech from Claremont Port Side.
February 21, not a particularly notable day, thought I to myself. Day before George Washington’s birthday (February 22, 1732). So, what possibly could have happened?
What a surprise! Here are a few gems from the Library of Congress American Memory Today in History, Arts and Entertainment site This Day in History, and Historyorb.com.
On February 21:
- In 1972, Richard M. Nixon arrived in China for a historic eight-day official visit. He was the first US president to visit the People’s Republic of China since its founding in 1949.
- The National Association for Stock Car Racing, NASCAR, was founded in 1948.
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx was published 1oo years before NASCAR in 1848.
- The Washington Monument was dedicated on this date in 1885
- In 1431, England began the trial against Joan of Arc.
- The first known sewing machine was patented in the US by John Greenough in Washington, D. C. in 1842.
- The World’s Fair in San Francisco, officially known as the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, opened in 1915 celebrating the successful completion of the Panama Canal in 1914 and a shout out to the world that Frisco was back in business after the devastating Great San Francisco Earthquake April 18, 1906.
- The first American Indian newspaper in the US, Cherokee Phoenix, was published in 1828.
- And, as we get ready for the World Champion San Francisco Giants 2013 Season, we remember that the then NY Giants played the Chicago White Sox in the first exhibition night game in 1931.
Come back next week as we kick off National Women’s History Month. Graphic from Flickr Creative Commons license courtesy of izik.
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen certainly proclaims the jubilation of Christ’s birth, and yet, so many of us struggle to “‘Console my people, console them,’ says your God,” (Isaiah 40:1) during this emotional time of year. Perhaps it’s time to slow down and talk with our children about the importance they hold in our lives.
Here are a few links and books that might soothe the soul and bring comfort and calmness to the hectic buildup to Christmas.
Originally posted 12/07/2011; updated 12/24/2012; graphic from Flickr Creative Commons License by Silver Tusk
The fourth Sunday before Christmas marks the first Sunday of Advent. This year it is December 2. Advent is from the Latin adventus meaning coming. It’s not just the shopping days until Santa’s arrival, but a time of preparation observed by Christians celebrating the birth of Jesus, the Messiah, and awaiting the return of Christ. In anticipation of the Nativity, children prepare Advent Wreaths, mark the days using an Advent Calendar, sing Christmas Carols, and decorate their homes. The symbol of Light representing Jesus is of particular significance and is found on our Christmas trees, in the lighted candles of the Advent Wreath, and on public display on houses, department stores, high rises, and tree lined streets.
The carols that tell the Christmas Story have special meaning and are well worth teaching our children. Singing the songs gives children another way to learn the meaning of Advent and Christmas. Singing also generates mirth and good cheer.
The first Sunday of Advent marks the beginning of the Catholic Liturgical Year. The Catholic Company has a list of Christmas children’s books, Amazon also carries a huge selection of Christmas and Advent themed children’s books.
Not to be missed is the Third Annual Crèche Festival of the Diocese of Oakland’s Cathedral of Christ the Light will take place December 14-16, 2012.
Originally posted 11/28/2010,updated 11/30/2011 and 12/5/2012 on SSPP Reads. Graphic courtesy of AHarden, Flickr Creative Commons License.
The longest day of the year, the first day of summer, has arrived. Ah, sit back and relax, starting tomorrow the days begin to get shorter and school is here before we know it. Of course, the longest day is not more than 24 hours, but it gives us in the Northern Hemisphere the sun for the longest period of time. It appears to us Earthlings at its most northern point. At the North Pole, nearly the entire day is bathed in sunlight. Some years ago my youngest brother pitched summer baseball with the North Pole Nicks in North Pole, Alaska. The big game was on the Summer Solstice and played at midnight without lights! You can guess what the shortest day of the year brings the folks up north–darkness.
See NASA’s Solstice Animation –what the Earth would look like on the Summer Solstice if you were standing on the Sun!
The spin axis of our planet is tilted 23.5 degrees with respect to Earth’s orbit around the Sun. The northern summer solstice is an instant in time when the north pole of the Earth points more directly toward the Sun than at any other time of the year. It marks the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere and winter in the southern hemisphere.
A few children’s titles come up with a keyword search, summer solstice, at the San Francisco Public Library: The Summer Solstice by Ellen Jackson, The Longest Day by Wendy Pfeffer, Mermaid Dance by Marjorie Rose Hakala, and Mermaids on Parade by Melanie Hope Greenberg.
Visit StarDate Online from the University of Texas at Austin MacDonald Observatory to get the latest Summer Solstice news for 2012. Enjoy your summer! SSPP Reads will post around the Fourth of July.
Reposted from June 2011.
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Recently I wrote about Vocabulary Instruction and Word Walls, with tips from Katherine Hilden and Jennifer Jones (Reading Today, Vol 29 No 4). This week, Hilden and Jones have suggestions for “Sweeping Round Robin Reading Out of Your Classroom” (Reading Today, Vol 29, No 5).
The classroom is quiet. All the student have the same book open on their desks. One student is reading aloud. Other students are counting ahead or gazing out into space. The student who just finished reading sighs with relief when her turn is over.
That’s Round Robin Reading (RRR). Over half of K-8 teachers report using RRR or some variation–Popcorn Reading, Combat Reading, Popsicle Reading. RRR and its variations all involve oral reading without prior practice with the text. No research evidence supports the claim that RRR actually contributes to students becoming better readers. Drawbacks, according to Hilden and Jones include:
- Slower reading rates
- Lower quantity of reading
- Off-task behaviors
- Models of dysfluent reading
- Problems with comprehension
- Problems with self-efficacy and motivation
Instead of RRR, why not provide students with motivating and authentic opportunities for repeated readings. Students who participate in repeated reading demonstrate better word identification, accuracy, and speed when reading as reported in the National Reading Panel (2000). Check out these resources:
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