TheScienceGiant

Stand on the Shoulders of TheScienceGiant! Together We'll See Further, Expand Horizons, and Enlighten Inquisitive Minds with STEM products for grades 6-12 (and sub lessons for Civics). Erich is an award winning science teacher, education consultant, author, and speaker on brain-compatible teaching techniques for motivating reluctant learners. Content Enhancement Routines are teacher-centered, and are used with whole class instruction to help teachers make content meaningful and memorable for students. For 25 years, Erich taught and tutored at science centers and public schools from urban to rural to magnet to charter. Erich's resources consider budget barriers, high tech/low tech/no tech classroom implementation, how there will be student ownership of results, and opportunities for remediation.

Strategic Instruction Model™ (SIM) http://sim.ku.edu SIM is a research-validated literacy program from the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. Content Enhancement is an instructional method that uses powerful teaching devices to organize and present course information so that all students can understand and remember. Teachers use SIM Routines to transform abstract main ideas and key topics into a concrete representation that helps students think about and talk about the key topic and essential related information. SIM is about promoting effective teaching and learning of critical content in schools. SIM strives to help teachers make decisions about what is of greatest importance, what we can teach students to help them to learn, and how to teach them well. - Think about and organize content - Explore text, topics, and details - Teach complex concepts - Help students complete their work Kagan Cooperative Learning https://www.kaganonline.com/free_articles/research_and_rationale/ Cooperative learning is a type of structured peer interaction emphasizing collaboration between peers, active learning, academic achievement, positive human relationships, equal participation and equal status of students in the classroom. Students can work together by following the steps to the structure, using material or content selected by the students themselves or by the teacher. Kagan structures have various aims, such as: building team spirit and positive relationships among students; information sharing; critical thinking; communication skills; and mastery (learning/remembering) of specified material. Many of Kagan structures can fulfill a number of aims simultaneously, depending on how the teacher uses them. Kagan structures can be mixed and matched, and adapted to the particular student group.

* 2018 William T. Dwyer Awards for Excellence in Education, finalist in the category of S.T.E.M. Education * The Engineering Council 2014 Outstanding S.T.E.M. Educator Award. * 2010 SECME, Inc. National Teacher of Year. * Palm Beach County (Florida) SECME School Coordinator of the Year 2007 & 2010. * RadioShack 2004 National Teacher Award for educational excellence. * Palm Beach County Science Educators’ Association Award FY 2002-2003 Science Teacher of the Year. * selected by Florida Space Grant Consortium in 2006 for Florida’s Zero-G Experience for Teachers, one of 15 educators flown in weightless environments in order to enhance math and science curriculum development. * national finalist in AIA Team America Rocketry Challenge 2007 with Boynton Beach High School “TARC Tigers”. * national finalist in FIRST Robotics Competition 2014 with Team 179 “Children of the Swamp”.

The giant's artwork for TheScienceGiant is from "A Giant Seated in a Landscape" (also called "The Colossus") by Francisco de Goya. One of de Goya’s most striking images, it is a burnished aquatint etching created around 1814. The giant turns his head over his shoulder to look at you, as if he his focus was pulled from pondering the Moon, and invites you to join him in cosmic contemplation.