Educators participate in an orientation to JASON, including JASON’s philosophy, curricula, and available resources. Educators will learn how to access standard alignments and identify the curriculum collections best suited for their needs. This includes tips and strategies for onboarding students and navigating the JASON platform. Best for educators getting started with JASON for the very first time. Content and Grade agnostic.

Modules Offered: Grades K-12 (General Audience) | Grades K-2 (STEM/Science) | Grades 3-5 (STEM/Science) | Grades 6-8 (STEM/Science) | Grades 9-12 (STEM/Science) | Grades 6-12 (Math)

This seminar is designed for educators who have attended a JASON orientation or have used JASON before. This seminar will develop deeper comfort and skill level at finding resources best suited for specific grade bands. Educators will become more familiar with JASON’s various curriculum models (from our storylining approach to 5E), teacher resources, and lesson plans, and will explore and share implementation strategies with peers.

Relationships matter. Staying connected is even more challenging in a remote setting. Absent strong teacher-student and student-student relationships, your program is destined to underperform. With this 90-minute seminar, your teachers will master practical solutions to build a connected classroom, starting on Day #1.

Remote doesn’t have to mean removed. This interactive session features a series of interactive activities and strategies designed to keep students engaged in the learning process and with each other. Empower your teachers to create a sense of community, wherever learning happens this school year.

Remote learning doesn’t mean students can’t work together. This seminar helps teachers develop ideas for collaboration and teamwork in remote or hybrid learning environments. Explore ways to share data, facilitate collaborative projects and provide feedback, while leveraging the latest classroom technologies, from Google Classroom to Flipgrid to padlet, and more.

Whether in-classroom, hybrid, or fully remote, educators will need tools and strategies to provide students with the education they deserve under circumstances that demand flexibility and innovation. This workshop focuses on designing meaningful learning experiences for students leveraging JASON resources that work well remotely or in-person to ensure learning continues uninterrupted. Educators will explore guiding principles of effective remote lesson design taking into consideration student needs and ability, student choice, equity, and accessibility.

JASON Academy Programs include our Best Practices in Remote Teaching & Learning and JASON’s Discovery Series outlined below.

All programs available as a two-hour overview workshop or as a six-hour program with leveled badging. Contact help@jason.org to learn more information about these programs and micro-credentialing opportunities.

Discover JASON’s award-winning programs and resources built around real-world scientists engaged in real-world scientific problems and phenomena.

These workshops lead educators deeper into JASON content while equipping participants with tools, strategies, and methods for best practices in implementation.

Workshops raise teacher effectiveness and comfort levels around inquiry and three-dimensional teaching and learning strategies; technology integration; differentiated instruction; and blended learning techniques.

The Aldrin Family Foundation and JASON Learning partner to provide educators with exciting activities, articles, and videos that will connect students with the history, science, and future of space exploration.

Survey the collection of JASON Learning’s homemade tools that support STEM learning in the classroom and in the home. The materials needed to make the tools are as simple as are the instructions. Learn how students can use these tools to plan and carry out investigations.

JASON’s Design & Pitch collection challenges students to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset when solving real-world problems and to develop their 21st century skills. Through “Flashy Fashion”, participants will sample parts of the Design & Pitch cycle while designing a customizable piece of clothing that harnesses the power of LED lighting, and then pitching it “Shark Tank” style.

Looking to augment already existing units or perhaps looking for replacements? Join us for a basic overview of JASON’s life science curricula with Interdisciplinarity connections. These collections explore ecology, environmental science, and biology while connecting with engaging STEM role models in the field and career pathways. This session will include navigation, a sample activity to illustrate the multi-media approaches, time to explore collections,  and discussion and Q&A around implementation.

• Life Science: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, & Dynamics
• Life Science: Human Biology – Disease (Grades 6-12)

Looking to augment already existing units or perhaps looking for replacements? Join us for a basic overview of JASON’s physical science curricula with interdisciplinarity connections focussed on energy, forces and interactions, and measurement. These collections explore earth’s systems and processes and human activity and impact while connecting with engaging STEM role models in the field and career pathways. This session will include navigation, a sample activity to illustrate the multi-media approaches, time to explore collections, and discussion and Q&A around implementation.

• Physical Science: Matter & Energy
• Physical Science: Waves
• Physical Science: Forces & Motion
• Physical Science: Energy

Get students out “into the field”, whether on school grounds or in the backyard, by engaging in science and engineering practices, and developing 21st-century competencies. Get kids doing “real science” in remote or in-class settings and leverage the online environment for collaborating, sharing, and analyzing group data.

STEM role model Dr. Shadle studies the emissions of pollutants from coal plants around the world. By analyzing recent data, participants will generate questions about the effect of the COVID virus pandemic on these pollutants. How does a nation-wide lock down affect the quality of the air we breathe?

Safety and security are critical areas that all students should be exploring to become digitally literate, especially now. What is cybersecurity? How can we stay safe in the cyber world? Learn more about the dangers of social engineering attacks, what they are, and how students can learn to spot and avoid them.

Audacity is a free, open-source, cross-platform audio software used in JASON’s World of Waves curriculum. Educators will learn to leverage this software with JASON’s lessons to help students explore patterns and relationships between frequency and pitch, and visualize parts of a wave. (Note: Audacity does not work on Chromebooks, but methods for creating assets on other devices using Audacity for use in a chromebook setting are addressed.)

Discover how a simple film canister can be leveraged to support students’ understanding of the essential practices of science and engineering, as well as key algebra concepts and skills like lines of best fit to make predictions. This session highlights the interdisciplinary connections between math and science. Fuel up your rocket today — and get ready to Blast Off!

Understanding Climate Change requires that students have a conceptual working model of how climate works in general. Build a systems model of climate in this session, showing causal relationships between the components that impact climate, and predicting the impact of climate modifiers such as mountains and ocean currents on a region.

The Institute for Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) and JASON are excited to kick-off the annual recycling contest: Recycling is Essential! Learn more about how to get your students involved in this unique opportunity and explore ISRI-JASON’s Recycling Activities Collection. In this collection, students explore the benefits and challenges of sustainable recycling through a variety of activities ranging from physics and chemistry to engineering and human impacts, while becoming informed citizens and careful consumers. Educators will have opportunities to share ideas around implementation.

Discover new opportunities for students to develop their understanding of mathematical concepts and engage in math practices through JASON’s interdisciplinary curricula. Explore how the “M” in STEM (math) is integrated into JASON’s STEM curricula. Whether you are a STEM teacher or a Math teacher, this session will show you how to inspire students to use math in school and life.

Algebra is a difficult subject for which to provide contextual experiences for students. This can make it difficult for students to understand. Explore the context-based experiences provided by ARGO Integrated Algebra, including a quest designed around planning and proposing an amusement park to investors.

Become a student and jump into some context-based activities provided in the ARGO Geometry curriculum. Use slope-intercept form to describe the path of a running back. Create a formula to determine the cost of a flooring job. Use the context of building a Tiny House to teach the skills of perimeter, area, and volume.

 In this learning experience, you will explore how linear relationships—expressions, equations, and inequalities—are used to solve exciting and important real-world challenges, from designing an amusement park to developing a business plan. So, be creative and get entrepreneurial with your mathematics!

Rural communities are developing and implementing plans to provide broadband internet access to ALL citizens. Learn the science behind broadband access, leverage math skills to identify community needs and equip your students to develop and implement a plan to support first-time users. (This curriculum is part of a public/private collaboration between Doddridge County Schools in W.V., Citynet and JASON Learning.)

Looking to augment already existing units or perhaps looking for replacements? Join us for a basic overview of JASON’s life science curricula with Interdisciplinarity connections. These collections explore ecology, environmental science, and biology while connecting with engaging STEM role models in the field and career pathways. This session will include navigation, a sample activity to illustrate the multi-media approaches, time to explore collections,  and discussion and Q&A around implementation.

• Life Science: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, & Dynamics
• Life Science: Human Biology – Disease (Grades 6-12)

Looking to augment already existing units or perhaps looking for replacements? Join us for a basic overview of JASON’s physical science curricula with interdisciplinarity connections focussed on energy, forces and interactions, and measurement. These collections explore earth’s systems and processes and human activity and impact while connecting with engaging STEM role models in the field and career pathways. This session will include navigation, a sample activity to illustrate the multi-media approaches, time to explore collections, and discussion and Q&A around implementation.

• Physical Science: Matter & Energy
• Physical Science: Waves
• Physical Science: Forces & Motion
• Physical Science: Energy

Did you know our definition of the kilogram has changed? Big changes in the way we define the units that make up the International System of Units (SI) are helping answer questions about the smallest and largest phenomena in the universe. In JASON Learning’s new curriculum, participants will say goodbye to the last artifact, the kilogram, and hello to the exciting field of metrology.

Become a student and jump into some context-based activities provided in the ARGO Geometry curriculum. Use slope-intercept form to describe the path of a running back. Create a formula to determine the cost of a flooring job. Use the context of building a Tiny House to teach the skills of perimeter, area, and volume.

In this learning experience, you will explore how linear relationships—expressions, equations, and inequalities—are used to solve exciting and important real-world challenges, from designing an amusement park to developing a business plan. So, be creative and get entrepreneurial with your mathematics!

The Institute for Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) and JASON are excited to kick-off the annual recycling contest: Recycling is Essential! Learn more about how to get your students involved in this unique opportunity and explore ISRI-JASON’s Recycling Activities Collection. In this collection, students explore the benefits and challenges of sustainable recycling through a variety of activities ranging from physics and chemistry to engineering and human impacts, while becoming informed citizens and careful consumers. Educators will have opportunities to share ideas around implementation.