The LA County Office of Education is hosting three review meetings for the new NGSS.  The third meeting is on Thursday, May 24th, 3-6 pm, at the Pueblo Learning Center in the Palmdale Unified School District.  This meeting is open to the public.  Please email Dean Gilbert at  gilbert_dean@lacoe.edu to reserve your space.  Include your name, e-mail address, school, district (and specify which of the three meetings you plan to attend).

The LA County Office of Education is hosting three review meetings for the new NGSS.  The second meeting is on Wednesday, May 23rd, 3:30-6:30 pm, at the LACOE Ed Center, Room 288, 9300 Imperial Highway, Downey CA.  This meeting is open to the public.  Please email Dean Gilbert   gilbert_dean@lacoe.edu to reserve your space.  Include your name, e-mail address, school, district (and specify which of the three meetings you plan to attend).

The LA County Office of Education is hosting three review meetings for the new NGSS.  The first meeting is on Monday, May 21st, 3-6 pm, at the Culver City USD, 3939 Van Buren St, Culver City.  This meeting is open to the public.  Please email Dean Gilbert   gilbert_dean@lacoe.edu to reserve your space.  Include your name, e-mail address, school, district (and which of the three meetings you plan to attend).

The K-12 Alliance is having a review meeting for the Next Generation Science Standards. This meeting is only for a limited group, but watch for information about future public meetings.

San Diego County Office of Education is hosting a live and virtual meeting to review and discuss the new NGSS.  The meeting is open and free to the public, but people are encouraged to RSPV to secure a space. The event will be held in room 306 at the County Office of Education in San Diego on May 22, from 5-7 pm.

For more information follow this link:

http://sdcoe.k12oms.org/eventdetail.php?id=60067

and to reserve a space follow this link:

http://sdcoe.k12oms.org/event_register.php?id=60067

The C-STEM Symposium will provide an overview of the challenges of teaching STEM subjects (science, technology, education, math) to K-12 students, offer insight into successful approaches to STEM instruction, and provide an opportunity for local K-12 educators to share their needs for instructional support and successful experiences. Local K-12 educators, especially technology and math teachers and principals in K-12 schools, are encouraged to attend. http://c-stem.ucdavis.edu/activities/symposium/2012/. Registration Deadline: April 20, 2012.

Attend a colloquium! They are FREE, open to the public and held from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm  Wednesday, plus select evenings at 7:00 pm. Time and date posted on the schedule at:  http://www.seti.org/talks

Doug Caldwell is a SETI Astronomer and the Instrument Scientist for the Kepler Mission based at NASA Ames. Dr. Caldwell will give the status of the Kepler instrument and operation, a summary of exoplanet results of the Kepler Mission to date.

Kepler was launched in 2009 and is currently in an Earth trailing orbit. It detects exoplanets by looking for small but regular decreases in the brightness of stars.

On April 4, NASA awarded the Kepler team funding for an extended mission to carry the spacecraft through to 2016. Dr. Caldwell will address how the extended mission will work and what we might expect Kepler to detect in the next four years.

For more information visit http://www.seti.org/talks.

Attend a colloquium! They are FREE, open to the public and held from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm  Wednesday, plus select evenings at 7:00 pm. Time and date posted on the schedule at:  http://www.seti.org/talks

Cosmological observations show that the universe is very uniform on the maximally large scale accessible to our telescopes, and the same laws of physics operate in all of its parts that we can see now.  The best theoretical explanation of the uniformity of our world was provided by inflationary theory, which was proposed 30 years ago.  Rather paradoxically, inflationary theory also predicts that on a very large scale, much greater than what we can see now, the world may look totally different. Instead of being a single spherically symmetric balloon, our universe may look as a “multiverse”, a collection of many different exponentially large balloons (“universes”) with different laws of physics operating in each of them.  In the beginning, this picture looked more like a piece of science fiction rather than a scientific theory. However, recent developments in inflationary cosmology, particle physics, and string theory provided strong evidence supporting the new cosmological paradigm.

Speaker: Andrei Linde, Stanford University

For more information visit http://www.seti.org/weeky-lecture/life-multiverse.

Attend a colloquium! They are FREE, open to the public and held from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm  Wednesday, plus select evenings at 7:00 pm. Time and date posted on the schedule at:  http://www.seti.org/talks

The new Project WET is here!  This fully revised color guide has 64 multidisciplinary water-related activities for students K-12.  The “cornerstone” of Project WET is its methodology of teaching about water resources through investigative, hands-on, easy to use activities.

The Sonoma County Water Agency is hosting a Project WET Workshop. The workshop will highlight local water issues and assist participants in their understanding of Project WET integration throughout the curriculum.  All participants will receive a copy of the Project WET curriculum guide.  Teachers can earn .6 CEU credit for attending the workshop.

Lunch and snacks will be provided.  Register on-line. http://www.scwa.ca.gov/education/