Welcome
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Sam Davis |
The K-12 Science Specialist is ready to provide professional development and classroom instructional support to assist your district in its mission to improve student learning and achievement. The specialist will work in partnership with you to deliver customized training or programs designed to target your school’s specific needs.
What services do I offer?
- Support for your school’s science programs - Leadership for district Science Facilitators - WIKI
- Instructional Support for classroom teachers - Content knowledge, methodology, classroom management
- Professional Development for science instruction K-12 - Provide high-quality, professional development in research- based instructional practices designed to impact student achievement.
- Standardized Testing Assistance (ACTAAP) - Benchmark Tests Grades 5 and 7
- Science Fairs and Science Safety
- Science Instructional Facilitation: improve teaching and
student learning
- Teacher Resources: materials, technology, research
- Training programs delivered at your school or at O.U.R.
CO-OP
- End of Course Biology
- Target Assessment Data
Events
O.U.R. CO-OP Elementary Science Fair
Science Day - Monday February 25, 2008.“Exploring Your World Through Science” with the University of Arkansas. (Science Day will return in 2010).
The Bumpers College of Agriculture, in partnership with the O.U.R. CO-OP Science Specialist, offered a half-day exploration of science programs for top ninth-graders and their teachers at North Arkansas College. More...
Video (4.53 MB .WMV)
Slideshow (340 KB)
Orders of Magnitude slideshow explores the scale of the micro and macro universe - connections between science and math. The power of Powers of Ten. (1.12 MB)
Space Shuttle slideshow reveals what goes on behind the scenes as shuttle Discovery and its components are assembled and launched. (3 MB)
Dolphin Rings video shows principles of fluid dynamics, pressure, and gases at work in nature. An explanation is that invisible, spinning vortices in the water are generated from the tip of a dolphin's dorsal fin when it is moving rapidly and turning. When dolphins break the line, the ends are drawn together into a closed ring. The higher velocity fluid around the core of the vortex is at a lower pressure than the fluid circulating farther away. Air is injected into the rings via bubbles released from the dolphin's blowhole. The energy of the water vortex is enough to keep the bubbles from rising for a reasonably few seconds of play time. (2.24 MB)
Expressions of the Cell - slideshow of creative models of the cell by students at Yellville High School, in Mrs. Criger's Biology Class. (940 KB)