Science in Oakland Elementary Schools


Spring 2018
Nuclear Engineering 198
2 Unit(s)

Contact Email:
enzostagnaro@berkeley.edu, its_alexis962@berkeley.edu, claudiaantillon@berkeley.edu, mdsauvage187@berkeley.edu,
Course Website
http://soesberkeley.weebly.com/about.html

About the Course

This is a course giving Berkeley students the opportunity to learn about teaching hands-on science to young learners. It also covers achievement gaps in education correlated with racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, especially in STEM fields. This class will contain a series of lectures and assignments to help students think about how we can work towards equitable achievement in education. Every other week Berkeley students will travel to Oakland elementary schools to lead hands-on science experiments with academically-struggling second graders. The bulk of the coursework will be designing and implementing these interactive science experiments to provide these children exposure to a curriculum they wouldn’t normally receive.

How to Enroll

In order to enroll in the course, you will need the course control number (CCN) which is 36804. The course consists of two main parts, the "Experiment Prep Day" (5-6pm on Mondays) and "Experiment Day" (1:45-3pm OR 2:30-3:45pm on Wednesdays) in which we travel to Oakland Elementary Schools and allow the students to perform hands-on science experiments. The CCN provided above is the ONLY course you will need to sign up for and includes both the experiment prep days and actual experiment days. You can choose which school you will travel to on Wednesdays based on what best fits your schedule. Also, you will need to have a Fingerprint Live Scan and a TB test completed by the start of the first meeting at the elementary schools. There will be a number of days in which we may travel as a class to complete both of these requirements.

Sections

Section Facilitator Size Location Time Starts Status CCN(LD) CCN(UD)
SOES class __ 25 104 Wheeler [M] 5:00PM-6:00PM 1/22/18 Full -- 36804

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