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PBS is airing “The New Science of Learning: Brain Fitness for Kids” on Rocky Mountain PBS, KRMA Channel 6 and KBDI Channel 6 on Saturday, May 30, at midnight. The show explores how neuroscience is informing education and is a key to highly effective learning, the value it brings to student lives and academic success, and how it should have a place in K–12. Featured speakers are Dr. Michael Merzenich, Dr. Paula Tallal, and Dr. John Gamrieli, MIT neuroscientist. For more information, view a three-minute segment at http://brainfitnessforkids.com.

Welcome to the Science Curriculum Web Site

In science, we stress the use of activities and skills that focus on the active search for knowledge or understanding to satisfy a curiosity. Structure and facilitated discussions based on shared understanding of rules of scientific discourses must be the rule to enhance our science disciplinary literacy (e.g., justifying understandings, basing arguments on data, critically assessing the explanation of peers). Both aspects of understanding—explaining and representing—are required to meet standards and prepare our students for the technological world they will enter. Science should include activities focused on the following main ideas:

Scientific Thinking
Scientific Tools and Technologies
Scientific Communication
Scientific Investigation

Announcement and Documents for Science Educators

Any DPS student or team can enter the Denver Metro Science Fair. Winners from grades 6 through 12 from the Denver metro area are then qualified to move on to the Colorado Science and Engineering Fair. State fair winners in grades 7–12 are qualified to go to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
Colorado Science Standards
Science Assessment Framework Study Guides
Grade 5 (PDF)
Grade 8 (PDF)
Grade 10 (PDF)
2008–2009 Scientific and Cultural Collaborative Directory of Educational Activities for Teachers and Schools (PDF)—Teacher's guide to field trips, workshops, performances, and tours for students in arts, culture, and science
Laboratory Hazardous Materials and Chemical Management Plan 2008 (PDF)

If you have technical questions about this Web site, contact Joel' Bradley-Hess at
joel_bradley-hess@dpsk12.org or 720-423-3723.