Creating Curious Classrooms: K-12 Science

Available On Demand

Exciting content inspires natural curiosity! Your teachers need a curriculum that is relevant to students and gives them the knowledge and intellectual tools to be life-long learners that will thrive in their personal lives, their careers, and their roles as citizens. In this 30-minute session of Creating Curious Classrooms, discover how phenomena-based science instruction can promote student learning. 

Join Ted Willard, nationally recognized NGSS and three-dimensional learning authority, and Desiree Sasko-Sujoy, former Science and Math Coach and NOAA scientist, as they:

  • Identify the need for high-quality curriculum materials.
  • Explore how real-world phenomena can ignite students’ natural curiosity and motivate them to meaningfully engage in science learning, and then extend their learning or build background knowledge.
  • Demonstrate immersive, interactive, and creative ways teachers can promote student sensemaking with time-saving teaching and assessment tools, interactive content, and hands-on learning opportunities.

Discovery Education’s award-winning supplemental and core curriculum connects students to their inner curiosity while helping every teacher bring the excitement of science to life!

Watch On Demand

Catch the on-demand webinar to discover how high-quality, engaging phenomena enable elementary teachers to lay the foundation for a lifelong love of science!

Featured Speakers

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Ted Willard

Senior Subject Matter Expert, Science
Discovery Education
Before joining Discovery Education, Ted spent eight years as the in-house standards expert for the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA). In this role, he supported implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), other standards based on A Framework for K–12 Science Education, and three-dimensional learning. He is the author of The NSTA Atlas of the Three Dimensions and editor of The NSTA Quick-Reference Guide to the NGSS (NSTA Press, 2014). Before joining NSTA, Ted spent twelve years at Project 2061 for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where he was responsible for the development of the Atlas of Science Literacy, Volume 2 (AAAS, 2007). Earlier in his career, Ted was a high school physics teacher. He has a degree in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Desiree Sasko Sujoy, M.S.Ed.

Director of Teaching & Learning
Discovery Education
Desiree Sasko Sujoy is a Director on the Teaching & Learning team at Discovery Education. Desiree works with partners to design learning experiences with DE tools and PD that bring their district goals to life. Prior to joining Discovery Education, Desiree was a Math/Science/EdTech Coach for 5 years, and secondary Math & Science teacher for 9+ years, part of which was spent designing marine field studies courses for students at a National Undersea Research Program (NURP) center in the Exumas. Prior to her education career, Desiree was a Research Associate for NOAA/NURP, and has published papers in the Journal of Zoology on prey capture of cownose rays and the Bulletin of Marine Science on coral reef monitoring efforts.

Frequently Asked Questions

Well, what is curiosity? It’s what drives us to explore and investigate our amazing world. And we believe getting curious is the best way to learn.

Creating Curious Classrooms is a webinar miniseries that helps educators capture that curiosity in students and help them want to become lifelong learners, explorers, solution seekers, and gamechangers.

This series showcases hands-on and virtual investigations, STEM activities, and a ton of science resources for teachers to bring science to life in the classroom!

Hear first-hand stories of how schools like yours are using standards-aligned content, complete with grab-and-go lessons and hands-on experiences, to turn their science programs into learning expeditions that help students better understand our world and prepare them for success.

Find all upcoming Creating Curious Classrooms webinars at DiscoveryEducation.com/Events

If you’re a school administrator, science department chair, science education leader, or simply someone with a love of science teaching, we invite you to come and get curious!  

You can register for any upcoming Creating Curious Classrooms webinars at DiscoveryEducation.com/Events

We’ll deep dive into a topic for 30-minutes, so anyone can fit it into their schedule!

Yes! We’ll record the session for participants. We’ll also offer an on-demand version after the live date so you can access a refresher anytime.

Creating Curious Classrooms will benefit any educator who wants to build curiosity as a foundation for learning science, regardless of whether you have DE in your classrooms. The series will showcase a variety of hands-on and virtual investigations, STEM activities, and a ton of science resources for teachers to bring science to life in the classroom — all are welcome.

There is no registration fee for participating in our webinars. But you do need to register in advance to receive access.

You can access a certificate of participation for attending but it is up to your district/local jurisdiction at their discretion whether the session will fulfill credit hours.

The webinar is hosted on Zoom webinars. If you need technical assistance for Zoom or are unable to join the meeting, please visit the Zoom Support Center.

Please contact Education Support at Education_Info@discoveryed.com.

Creating Curious Classrooms Series

Well, what is curiosity? It’s what drives us to explore and investigate our amazing world. And we believe getting curious is the best way to learn. Creating Curious Classrooms is a webinar miniseries that helps educators capture that curiosity in students and help them want to become lifelong learners, explorers, solution seekers, and gamechangers.

This series showcases hands-on and virtual investigations, STEM activities, and a ton of science resources for teachers to bring science to life in the classroom! Hear first-hand stories of how schools like yours are using standards-aligned content, complete with grab-and-go lessons and hands-on experiences, to turn their science programs into learning expeditions that help students better understand our world and prepare them for success.

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