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Mayor’s Youth Employment Initiative

Since 2003, we have been providing paid internships for high school students. National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health have provided funding for these internships. More recently we have partnered with Mayor Murray’s Youth Employment Initiative to extend our reach. If you are between 14-24 years old and either live in Seattle or want to work in Seattle please consider applying to participate in the Mayor’s Youth Employment Initiative (MYEI). Stay…

Earth To Dinner Rallies ISB Community Around Climate Action

It started with a call to action: On Dec. 12, the first anniversary of the Paris Agreement, gather around the dinner table with friends and other community members to discuss climate action. Organizers from GOOD Magazine and the Earth To Coalition hoped that this grassroots movement, given the incoming administration, would inspire people to keep climate action at the top of minds. ISB answered the call and decided to host…

#EarthToDinner Event To Support Climate Action

Earth To Dinner: In December 2015, 195 global leaders came together to adopt the historic Paris Agreement – the world’s first comprehensive climate agreement. GOOD, in partnership with the #EarthTo coalition (100+ partners strong), has created the #EarthToDinner (earthtodinner.org) climate conversation dinner series to keep climate action on the table. Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) is hosting dinner for 50 at its labs in the South Lake Union neighborhood of…

NSTA in Portland 2016 – Session Materials

Educators!  We greatly enjoyed being with you at the regional NSTA conference in Portland.  In addition to uploading materials through the NSTA website, we are including all session materials here, since NSTA has file size limits.  Please contact us for any questions and/or needs. Thursday, November 10, 2016, 2:00-3:00pm – Ocean Acidification as a Way to Teach Multidisciplinary Science and NGSS Program Description: Explore a set of lessons that engage…

‘Invisible Forest’ Curriculum

By Claudia Ludwig Baliga Lab Education Program Manager The past nine days have been exciting for the Baliga Lab. Dr. Anne Thompson and I have been working with eight teachers to begin the process of translating Anne’s oceanography research on the Invisible Forest into curriculum that offers a hands-on, engaging experience for high school students. The group developed the framework and drafted lessons that will be field tested this year….

Water Quality Testing I (Edvotek)

The objective of this experiment is to use chromogenic reagents to test simulations of water samples contaminated with known bacteria. As an extension, students will apply this test as a field activity to screen local bodies of water for the presence of coliform bacteria.

Water Quality Testing II (Edvotek)

In this experiment, students will monitor water quality by using the Polymerase Chain reaction to detect the presence of bacterial contamination.

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SEP8 Science and Engineering Practice 8 – Obtaining, Evaluating and Communicating Information

Any education in science and engineering needs to develop students’ ability to read and produce domain-specific text. As such, every science or engineering lesson is in part a language lesson, particularly reading and producing the genres of texts that are intrinsic to science and engineering. (NRC Framework, 2012, p. 76) Being able to read, interpret, and produce scientific and technical text are fundamental practices of science and engineering, as is…