Science in Oakland Elementary Schools


Spring 2020
Nuclear Engineering 198
2 Unit(s)

Contact Email:
soesberkeley@gmail.com
Course Website
https://soesberkeley.weebly.com/

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, please fill out the application form below (make sure you are logged into your Berkeley email!). The form submission page will give you the course CCN number and more info. The course consists of two main parts, the "Experiment Prep Day" (5-6pm on Mondays) and "Experiment Day" (every other Wednesdays @ 4:00-6:30pm OR Friday 1:00-3:30) in which we travel to Oakland Elementary Schools and allow the students to perform hands-on science experiments. The CCN is the ONLY course you will need to sign up for. It will sign you up for the Monday section but NOT the Wednesday/Friday experiment days. You will sign up for which school (and time slot) to attend on Wednesdays/Fridays after the class has begun. Also, you will need to have a Fingerprint Live Scan and a TB test completed by the start of the first trip to the elementary schools. We will give you details about both of those in class.

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Sections

Section Facilitator Size Location Time Starts Status CCN(LD) CCN(UD)
Monday Lectures Morgan Burton, Leana Arabatlian, Cassandra Cardoza, Sam Papalnus 25 TBD [M] 4:00PM-5:00PM 8/24/2020 Open 28588 --

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