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Professional Development: Middle School 5-8

Resource	Grade Level
Earth in Time and Space This 2-session course is designed to enhance your understanding and teaching of earth and space science Currently offered by: PBS TeacherLine	5-12
Introduction to the Earth System This 2-session course Introduction to the Earth explores the essential question of what the Earth system is, and how you can use inquiry methods to teach about it. Currently offered by: PBS TeacherLine	5-12
Natural Selection and Applied Genetics This 2-session professional development course explores the factors which determine how genetic traits are passed on to future generations. Currently offered by: PBS TeacherLine	5-8
Regulation and Behavior This 2-session course presents life science advances understanding and effective teaching about how organisms get what they need in order to survive and thrive Currently offered by: PBS TeacherLine	5-8
Reproduction and Genetics This 2-session course presents life science explores the cellular processes which organisms to develop, reproduce, and pass on traits from one generation to the next. Currently offered by: PBS TeacherLine	5-8
Structure and Function This 2-session course presents life science focuses on how an organism's characteristics enable it to survive and reproduce in its particular environment. Currently offered by: PBS TeacherLine	5-8
Structure of the Earth System This 2-session course presents earth science advances your understanding and effective teaching of landform processes and use of data sets and mapping tools. Currently offered by: PBS TeacherLine	5-12
Teaching Earth and Space Science This 8-session course enhances educators' understanding of earth and space science, and provides a comprehensive overview of inquiry-based approaches to teaching core earth and space science topics. Currently offered by: PBS TeacherLine	5-12
Teaching Evolution in 21st Century America This 2-session online course gives teachers the background and skills they need to teach about evolution and to address religiously based alternatives to the theory of evolution.	5-12
Teaching Middle School Life Science This 8-session course is designed to help teachers deepen their understanding of life science concepts needed to teach standards-based curricula at the middle school level. Currently offered by: PBS TeacherLine	5-8
Teaching Middle School Physical Science This 8-session course helps middle school teachers deepen their use of inquiry-based approaches to teaching standards-based science topics, including atomic and molecular structure, chemical reactions, motions and forces, and the electromagnetic spectrum. Currently offered by: PBS TeacherLine	5-8
Understanding Energy Transfer This 2-session course advances understanding and effective teaching about how energy is transferred from substance to another and what happens in these situations. Currently offered by: PBS TeacherLine	5-8
Understanding Heat Transfer This 2-session course advances understanding and effective teaching about radiation, conduction, and convection and how heat transfer influences density. Currently offered by: PBS TeacherLine	5-8
Understanding Solubility and Density This 2-session course advances understanding and effective teaching about how differences in solubility of substances affect density. Currently offered by: PBS TeacherLine	5-8
Understanding Waves This 2-session course advances understanding and effective teaching about light waves, the electromagnetic spectrum, and sound waves. Currently offered by: PBS TeacherLine	5-8
Weather and Climate This 2-session course advances your understanding and effective teaching about weather, climate, and climate change. Currently offered by: PBS TeacherLine	5-12