Climate & Community: A Living History – Place-Based STEM K-8 Professional Development Play Date

Clock Hours Registration

Course Description

Professional Development Play Dates (PD²) are place-based meet-ups for K-8 teachers to learn together through investigation, experimentation, sensemaking, and networking. This specific session takes place at the Shoreline Historical Museum and Miyawaki Forest in Shoreline, Washington and focuses on climate learning and understanding in that place in the past, present, and future.

Learning Objectives

Everyday Data: Engage in routines integrating math and science – specifically around counting, data collection, analysis, graphing, making observations, and asking questions.
Learn from where we live: Investigate and learn ways to use local landmarks, ecosystem observations, and history of place to contextualize learning.
Sensemaking with STEM: Experience ways to build positive learner identities by constructing understanding together, being curious, and using science and math practices
Professional Networking: Connect with other educators to explore and learn together

Details

Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Time: 8:45 am - 11:45 am
Location: Shoreline Historical Museum and Miyawaki Forest in Shoreline

Clock Hours

Full participation in this course will allow you to earn 3 STEM or equity WA clock hours. Upon completion, allow 2 weeks for processing.

Related Clock Hour Standards

National Board Professional Teaching Standards
- Teachers know the subjects they teach and how to teach those subjects to students
- Teachers are members of learning communities
Cultural Competency, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Standards
- Collaboration: Educators support learning partnerships by shifting a focus on the individual to a focus on the collective “we.” Educators collaborate with a variety of roles inside and outside the school community, including calling others in and joining others for conversations and activities that build shared understanding and goals.
- Commitment: Educators understand the history of US schooling and the ways in which it has been used historically, and in present times, to maintain an unequal social order. Educators consistently work to improve the education system for historically underserved students, families, and communities.