Science Companion http://www.sciencecompanion.com Inspiring Students to Explore their World Sat, 18 May 2013 11:50:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Florida Association of Science Supervisors http://www.sciencecompanion.com/2013/05/florida-association-of-science-supervisors/ http://www.sciencecompanion.com/2013/05/florida-association-of-science-supervisors/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 16:11:28 +0000 Leigh http://www.sciencecompanion.com/?p=9043 1

Rita’s at FASS this week in Orlando.

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190406_10151441400168857_1573564594_nHere’s Rita Ferrindino at FASS, sharing Science Companion Prime with Sharon Kelly of Oscela County Schools.

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We are delighted to share a little taste of our newest curriculum offering Science Companion Prime. Join our CEO Rita Ferrandino as she explains some of the great ways it will meet your teachers’ needs:

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Call us for a full demo from our Curriculum Support team at 888-352-0660 or team@sciencecompanion.com.

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Click here for more information about Science Companion Prime.

Want more? Here are some sample videos of how teachers and students can set up experiments:

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Science Cheerleaders!

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Science Cheerleaders Belinda, Rosemary and Darlene from Ann Arbor

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Science Cheerleaders Belinda and Rita

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Science Cheerleader Arachne…

 

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Click here for more information on the National Refrigerator Door Project.
Click here for more information about our new digital curriculum, Science Companion Prime.

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We’re at the Elementary Extravaganza!

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We are proud to be sponsors of the 2nd Annual Elementary Extravaganza at NSTA — we’re introducing the National Refrigerator Door Project at this event. The National Refrigerator Door Project  is also being sponsored by Science Companion Prime, our new digital curriculum. It is a STEAM/assessment project, inviting students (and today, teachers) to draw what they think about when they think about science and then providing a website to post their work. AND — to launch the National Refrigerator Door Project, Science Companion Prime is sponsoring a $25,000 curriculum in-kind grant competition — you could get science curriculum for your entire elementary school for free!  You can learn more here!

But we had to come with a refrigerator door!

 

 

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Our CEO Rita Ferrandino and Director of Curriculum Customer Support Belinda Basca are at NSTA today for the Elementary Extravaganza! Stop by to say hello and discover the National Refrigerator Door Project!

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Science Companion and the Next Generation Science Standards.
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It’s a love fest…

We’re very excited to see how much the new Next Generation Science Standards are infused with inquiry based learning.

Click here to find out more!

 

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Introducing…Science Companion Prime!

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We are proud to introduce a truly exciting new version of Science Companion: Science Companion Prime. We’ve combined the best of inquiry and the best of digital in a robust, fully customizable new way to learn science. You can have your cake and eat it too…

Click here to find out more!

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Introducing…The National Refrigerator Door Project!

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We’re gathering artwork from kids around the country, asking them the question, “what do you think of when you think of science?” AND, to kick start the project,  we’re offering a $25,000 curriculum grant competition — the winning entry will receive one entire elementary school’s worth of Science Companion Prime, completely free!

Click here to find out more!

 

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APRIL 11, 2013
As the final versions of the Next Generation Science Standards are announced this week, elementary inquiry science curriculum publisher Chicago Educational Publishing Company, LLC (CEPC) is poised to provide rich, real-time alignment with the release of its new signature product, Science Companion Prime.

 

Science Companion Prime is a digital approach to inquiry science, providing robust teacher and student tools without ever replacing real, hands-on science with flat simulations. The curriculum moves the best of CEPC’s original Science Companion pedagogy, which aligns closely to the philosophies of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), into the digital era, offering flexibility for educators and students in content, tools, and access.

 

Customized standards are at the core of Science Companion Prime. School districts will be able to build a completely customizable program based on their standards needs, including NGSS, building discrete concrete clusters into a unique curriculum that is specific to their needs. Inquiry kit materials will also be completely customizable so districts can purchase only what they need, when they need it. Click here for more information about Science Companion Prime and the Next Generation Science Standards.

 

CEPC Publisher and CEO Rita Ferrandino, speaking from the SIIA EdTech Government Forum in Washington, DC this week as the final Next Generation Standards are being announced, states, “We believe that Science Companion Prime will revolutionize inquiry science. We can bring content standards to the curriculum in real time in a way that allows districts to choose what they want to teach, when they want to teach it, all for a price that’s closer to traditional text books than inquiry science.”

For more information or to demo this new product, contact us at 888-352-0660 or email us at info@sciencecompanion.com.
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If you are teaching Lesson 2 – “Is it  Magnetic?”- from our Magnets module, you can teach your students the multiple meanings of attraction.

Erin Basca, the daughter of our Director of Curriculum, is in the fourth grade this year. Erin created this comic strip after musing on the word attraction:

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Attraction

 

The protagonist, Magnet Man, is going to approach his crush at the carnival but is instead attracted to the magnet onstage, missing out on his opportunity to talk to his crush.

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To see a bigger version, you can click here to download a PDF.

 

 

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We’re pleased to announce Dawn Novak of Arlington Heights (IL) is the winner of our survey about elementary science curriculum purchase plans.

Arlington Heights will receive 4 full classroom sets of our acclaimed new Engineering and Technology Design Projects. That’s $2000 worth of curriculum! Congratulations!

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