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Full STEAM Ahead: A K-12 Educator Workshop

January 27 @ 9:00 am - 2:30 pm

 

LeMay – America’s Car Museum and Foss Waterway Seaport present Full STEAM Ahead, bringing you creative new ways to incorporate Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics into your classroom. Educators from both museums will provide engaging, hands-on workshops for both primary and secondary teachers, offering lesson plans and supplementary materials for educators to utilize in their own classrooms.

Registration includes lunch, cross-curricular lesson plans, parking and admission to each museum. Participation in the program qualifies for 5 STEM clock hours.

Registration fee: $55

Registration is now closed.

* Please note that refunds cannot be issued following the close of program registration. In order to receive a refund prior to the close of registration, all cancellations must be made in writing.

Please check with your school district regarding reimbursement for professional development.


SESSIONS & PRESENTERS

Force, Motion & Automobiles

Presented by LeMay – America’s Car Museum

Why has automobile design changed over time? What do Newton’s Laws of Motion have to do with seatbelts? How can patterns help make predictions?

Explore the answers to these questions and more with educators from LeMay – America’s Car Museum, as we drive into our Force and Motion unit! Developed to provide an engaging, hands-on experience, these three lessons will introduce your students to the basic concepts of force and motion, test your students’ design and engineering skills, and bring everything together with the ultimate test of your class’s new knowledge and skills as they construct a wacky machine that can be used to predict future motion.

AND

Under Pressure

Presented by Foss Waterway Seaport

Join instructors from the Foss Waterway Seaport for a series of hands-on science experiments involving balloons and other common household items. Teachers will use pressure to suck a balloon into a jar, put a wooden skewer through it without popping it, and maybe even mess around with some fire! In this session you’ll learn how heat and cold cause ocean currents and more. Wow your students and engage them in fun, exciting science.


PROGRAM SCHEDULE

(Items in BOLD count toward clock hours)

9 am:

Event Begins

9 – 9:30 am: Registration/Welcome and Introductions
9:30 – 11:30 am: Session 1
11:30 am – 12 pm: Lunch (provided) & Gallery Exploration
12 – 2 pm: Session 2
2 – 2:30 pm: Wrap-up Discussion & Closing Remarks

2:30 pm:

Event Concludes


Event Details:

When: Saturday, January 27, 2024  | 9 am – 2:30 pm

Where: LeMay – America’s Car Museum

Contact: Education Department – [email protected]  |  253.683.3978


 

Details

Date:
January 27
Time:
9:00 am - 2:30 pm
Event Category:

Venue

LeMay – America’s Car Museum
2702 East D Street
Tacoma, WA 98421 United States
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Organizer

Education Department
Phone:
253.683.3978
Email:
education@americascarmuseum.org