Fired Up About Energy

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متاح الآن إلى 2024-11-21
4.50 ساعة تعليمية
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This online workshop: “Fired up about Energy ” is based on ideas presented in Good Thinking! an original animated series developed by the Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC) and FableVision Studios as a professional development resource for K-12 science educators.

In this workshop, we’ll analyze a video in which Ms. Reyes is introducing her students to the concept of energy. Energy is a very important concept in science. The NGSS K-12 Science Framework identifies Energy as one of major disciplinary core ideas (DCIs) in physical sciences and it is also identified as one of the crosscutting concepts (CCCs) that can be used to connect all science content areas together. Because energy is such a common idea in many parts of our lives, the term energy is often used in many ways, which creates confusions and misconceptions about energy. However, it is important to remember that fundamentally all energy is the same. Energy can exist in many forms or types and can be transformed or converted from one form to another. Conservation of energy can also be a confusing concept. Students start by learning that energy is always conserved, even when it is converted from one form to another. Then later, they also learn that every time there is an interaction in a physical or biological system, that some energy is lost from the system. Both statements are true, the total energy is always conserved even if some energy in a specific system dissipates into the environment due to heat loss or other interactions. Understanding this concept hinges on understanding and clearly defining what is in the system and what counts as the outside environment. This workshop looks at the scientific concept of energy and at some of the challenges of helping students build a more complete understanding of energy as a property of a system.

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Amy D'Amico
Amy D'Amico

Amy D’Amico, PhD, is the Division Director of Professional Services. In this role, she leads the amazing Professional Services staff in the development and implementation of professional development and leadership development initiatives at SSEC.

Prior to joining the SSEC, Amy has 20 years of experience as an educator that began by teaching middle school for the Cambridge Public Schools in Massachusetts. During her tenure there, Amy became a Middle Grade Science Teacher Leader and worked to develop professional development for teachers district-wide. She also mentored a cohort of teachers to support inquiry-based teaching in their classrooms. In her spare time Amy also worked on various educational consulting projects focused on the development of curriculum and professional development in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the American Museum of Natural History.

Amy also serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Biology Department of Georgetown University. Amy earned her BA in Biology with a minor in Education for Certification from New York University and received a MS and a PhD in Biology from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.