Find out what’s cooking at Science Companion!

Coming to the Indiana Textbook Caravan?

We’re looking forward to meeting you!

Stop by our booth and try your hand at inquiry science, take away a sampler to share Science Companion with your colleagues, and check out our presentation to find out how you can get your classrooms cooking with Science Companion.
(And ask us how you can win a chance at your own Let’s Get Cooking! apron…)

Can’t make it live? Join us for a Virtual Caravan!

For those of you who are unable to join us OR for those who just can’t get enough Caravan, come one by to find photos, presentations, science teaching tips, Virtual Field trips, recipes from friends and colleagues, and chances for an apron as well, all on our website. We’ll be updating it daily, so stop by to see what’s cooking!

Click here to visit the First Ever Annual Science Companion Virtual Indiana Textbook Caravan!

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We had so much traffic at our booth and on our virtual online raffle that we decided to raffle off Teacher Materials from number of our Habitats and Our Solar System modules.

Here are the lucky winners:

Habitats Teacher Materials Package

Including a Teacher Lesson Manual, Assessment Book, and Teacher Masters:

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Our Solar System Teacher Lesson Manual and Masters

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Keep your eyes peeled — we’ll be sending you your materials shortly! Thanks to everyone who entered, and congratulations to all of our winners.

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Here’s an easy way to check in on all of the great Virtual NSTA activities here on our site:

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• Are you ready? A pre-NSTA Virtual Field Trip

• Come by and see us…virtually! NSTA Philadelphia 2010

• Missing out on the free stuff at the conference? Enter our raffle online! (Until

• Catching up.

• With Science Present (Part 1)

• With Science Present (Part 2)

• Rare Philadelphia gecko sighting!

• What would the Liberty Bell sound like?

• Science Future – “Eyeballs in the Fridge”

• Using the web for science education.

• Goodbye from Science Companion and Spheniscus magellanicus.

Our authors have been having a marvelous time getting to meet Central Bucks educators. Here are two great teachers from Central Bucks in action teaching Science Companion…

Emily Bredow shows off her I Wonder Circle  and Elaine Phipps leads her 4th Grade class in a conversation:

Thanks to all of you who attended the Train the Trainers Session!

At Science Companion, we believe that teachers are the best teachers, and we recognize that school districts often struggle to come up with funding to bring in expensive outside trainers. So, we use, whenever possible, a “Train the Trainers” model, where one of our Professional Development Experts comes and works with lead teachers in the school district so they can learn how best to support their colleagues.

Here are some photos of the group that met yesterday:

We are very excited about this project, as it will help define how inquiry science works in the classroom, and should be helpful to educators cross country. Belinda, Colleen, and Diane, and Lance, our authors are on hand throughout the week, and will be talking to teachers about their experiences with Science Companion. Belinda will be leading a PD workshop at the Chester County Intermediate Unit about inquiry in the classroom.

Over this next week, we will be sharing what they’re learning about and what they’re teaching here on our website as well, so you can join us on our field trip. We’ll share PD workshops, updates, etc.

And like any good adventure, before all of the hard work starts, our travelers needed to have great dinner. They met Carolyn, our miracle-worker graphic designer at a PA restaurant. (We do most of our work with Carolyn via email or phone, so actually meeting in person is a real treat!)

Belinda, Colleen, Carolyn, and Diane at dinner:

Thinking of proposing a workshop at WSTA?

2010 WSTA Conference
Call for Presentations
Evolving:  Science Education in a Changing World
Washington State Science Teachers Association 2010 Conference on Science Education
Henry M. Jackson High School, Mill Creek, WA
Friday, Saturday & Sunday, March 13 – 15, 2010
Priority will be given to proposals received by Friday, July 31st, 2009

And let us know if you’d like to use Science Companion materials in your workshop — we’ll be happy to get you everything you need.

Just email us at info@sciencecompanion.com  or call us at (888) 352-0660. We’re here to help!

Conference Strands 

• Strand 1:  Evolving Student:  Implications for Instruction and Assessment.

• Strand 2:  Evolving Teacher: Collaborators, Innovators and Life Long Learners.

• Strand 3:  Planning for the Evolving World:  Science, Technology, Policy and the Environment.

• Click here for the call for presentations.

• Click here for general information about the conference.

We’ve got some great fans!

Heather Covert
5th grade teacher
Sandy Valley Elementary
Uses Science Companion 

Randal Harrington
Science Chair
The Blake School
Uses Science Companion 

Even our friend working the concession stand wore an I Wonder Circle button!

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Join a virtual version of Lance Campbell, our Director of Customer Relations and Pilot Programs, as he explores energy transfers throughout our day. Lance is giving this workshop in New Orleans, so we thought we’d share it with you!

Just Click Here!

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