CitizenScientistsLeague.com
The Citizen Scientists League promotes responsible scientific observation, experimentation, discovery, and invention.
Sarasota Science encourages students, and teachers to get involved with the Citizen Scientist League. (CSL)
CSL is a great way to interact with real scientists, do 'hands on science' and get reviewed by your peers.
Our founder, Dr Fritz Faulhaber supports CSL, and we hope to play and active role in it's success and growth because we believe in the interaction and recognition between scientists as part of the scientific process.
You can join CSL on facebook at Citizen Scientists League on Facebook
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
G Wiz Fab Lab
Opening Spring 2011
In 2010, a collaboration between the Faulhaber Family Foundation and G.WIZ – The Science Museum has formed and is known as the G.WIZ - Faulhaber Fab Lab.
The Fab Lab is an advanced digital design and fabrication laboratory that allows community members access to high-tech tools in order to actualize ideas through design and fabrication.
The Fab Lab in Sarasota, Florida is one of over thirty in the Global Fab Lab Network, and the only one in the southeastern region of the United States.
The G.WIZ - Faulhaber Fab Lab is scheduled to open in the Spring of 2011.
For more information, please email us at fablab@gwiz.org.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Supporting Institutions that put Science Labs in front of students
This quarter, Sarasotascience has increased it's support of local institutions that do Science camps and School day excursions, like we have in the past with the YMCA.
We are supporting the following:
We are supporting the following:
- MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) located at East Fowler, Tampa MOSI.org
- Science Center of Pinellas County, located at 22nd Ave N,St. Petersburg Sciencecenterofpinellas.org
- Great Explorations Children's Museum located at 4th st N, St. Petersburg Greatexplorations.org
- G-WIZ The Science Museum G.WIZ.org
- and still the YMCA Science Summer camp Suncoastymca.org
Thursday, January 28, 2010
SSI works with CTEF and STEM
Whats is STEM?
An intuitive to promote Science Technology Engineering and Math.
Whats is CTEF?
The mission of Career Technical Education Foundation is to increase the influence of STEM through community and industry partnerships.
SSI Sarasota Scientific Instruments, Inc SarasotaScience.org will be supporting providing free labs for Teachers and Partnerships from our Science lending Library.
If you or others you know are involved in STEM or CTEF, please feel free to request labs free from Sarasotascience.org
We are particularly looking to promote the Science aspect, and 'Hands on Science'. We can have students gain interest in Science and Technology by getting them 'doing science', and thereby seeing the exploration of the world as being fun and yet to be discovered, promoting them to seek careers in technology, hopefully also spurred on by opportunity brought to them by CTEF to experience the workplace.
If you are not yet, get connected!
An intuitive to promote Science Technology Engineering and Math.
Whats is CTEF?
The mission of Career Technical Education Foundation is to increase the influence of STEM through community and industry partnerships.
SSI Sarasota Scientific Instruments, Inc SarasotaScience.org will be supporting providing free labs for Teachers and Partnerships from our Science lending Library.
If you or others you know are involved in STEM or CTEF, please feel free to request labs free from Sarasotascience.org
We are particularly looking to promote the Science aspect, and 'Hands on Science'. We can have students gain interest in Science and Technology by getting them 'doing science', and thereby seeing the exploration of the world as being fun and yet to be discovered, promoting them to seek careers in technology, hopefully also spurred on by opportunity brought to them by CTEF to experience the workplace.
If you are not yet, get connected!
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
How are we doing on 'Getting Labs in thier hands'?
How are we doing on 'Getting Labs in their hands'?
We have so far been able to 1. Afford to purchase all requested Labs and 2. Deliver all requested Labs.
However we have not been able to generate an adequate amount of requests for the resources we put into the operation. Even though we have SarasotaScience.org from which requests can easily be made, and we have done extensive 'marketing' mainly through emails, we have not had a good response.
I feel we are at a crossroads on the lending library concept and it's effectiveness given the climate that Science Teachers are working with today in the schools.
What we have put together so far would work if we simply had more adequate response from the teachers requesting labs. Everybody I speak to indicates they are bewildered that we are not inundated with requests and overrun with delivering labs.
I will be directing people to this blog, and ask that they please provide us with some suggestions as to how we can make this work, keeping in mind our goal of getting labs in the hands of students.
Please provide your comment:
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Hands on Science - Saves time in the long run
Answering questions and addressing fears:
Yes, this is all FREE for you and your school, and we deliver and pick up so as to not disrupt your teaching and planning time as much as possible. All you have to do is plan your classes to include labs, those that can, and request it from us. We will do the rest! The worksheets come with most.
People ask me a lot, 'is this is to good to be true?', and why do you do this?' but our reward is as per our mission 'to promote hands on'. We get a lot of reward from seeing that happen, trust me. And yes it is true, and totally free.
It does require extra effort on the part of the teachers, to plan the lesson to include labs, and MAKE A REQUEST online at www.sarasotascience.org
I know that sounds almost funny and too easy, but we are aware of the 'fear' of having students do experiments in the classroom, especially when the teacher can hardly remember doing that lab themselves, or in some cases have not ever done so.
We understand this, and so we go through it with you when we deliver and setup, so that you feel familiar and comfortable on how the equipment works.
The other factor is the 'return on investment' of time taken to have your class do an experiment, vs just teach them with literature. Considering the primary goal of passing FCAT and making the grade requirements, teachers are reluctant to do time intensive labs. Weigh up 'hands on' education, against 'teach the questions and answers' to see which will have better test results.
If you believe in teaching the fundamental process of Science, discovery, and it's true value which 'asks the question' opposed to answering questions, and how discovery can stimulate students.
The result is it becomes fun, and learning takes place with understanding.
It could be said that in the long run, time is saved in education through the 'hands on experience' because of this.
But who am I to say.
Sean Connors
DIR Sarasota Science
Yes, this is all FREE for you and your school, and we deliver and pick up so as to not disrupt your teaching and planning time as much as possible. All you have to do is plan your classes to include labs, those that can, and request it from us. We will do the rest! The worksheets come with most.
People ask me a lot, 'is this is to good to be true?', and why do you do this?' but our reward is as per our mission 'to promote hands on'. We get a lot of reward from seeing that happen, trust me. And yes it is true, and totally free.
It does require extra effort on the part of the teachers, to plan the lesson to include labs, and MAKE A REQUEST online at www.sarasotascience.org
I know that sounds almost funny and too easy, but we are aware of the 'fear' of having students do experiments in the classroom, especially when the teacher can hardly remember doing that lab themselves, or in some cases have not ever done so.
We understand this, and so we go through it with you when we deliver and setup, so that you feel familiar and comfortable on how the equipment works.
The other factor is the 'return on investment' of time taken to have your class do an experiment, vs just teach them with literature. Considering the primary goal of passing FCAT and making the grade requirements, teachers are reluctant to do time intensive labs. Weigh up 'hands on' education, against 'teach the questions and answers' to see which will have better test results.
If you believe in teaching the fundamental process of Science, discovery, and it's true value which 'asks the question' opposed to answering questions, and how discovery can stimulate students.
The result is it becomes fun, and learning takes place with understanding.
It could be said that in the long run, time is saved in education through the 'hands on experience' because of this.
But who am I to say.
Sean Connors
DIR Sarasota Science
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Moodle.SarasotaScience.org
Moodle has become a wonderful tool for teachers. What I like the most about it is that it facilitates teachers networking, even across schools about class design.
SSI is planning having all the Labs on it's new hosted site: Moodle.sarasotascience.org
SSI is planning having all the Labs on it's new hosted site: Moodle.sarasotascience.org
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