SMATE and Local Partnerships
SMATE Partnerships Bridge Formal and Informal Learning
Students for Salmon
![salmon leaping as it swims upstream](/sites/smateprod9x1001.wwu.edu/files/styles/card_large/public/2022-01/salmon%20swimming%20square.jpg?itok=hCJAf-yT)
In Winter & Spring quarters 2022 SCED 480/490 students developed and piloted curriculum for NSEA's Students for Salmon program in partnership with local area teachers.
Forest School
![WWU students accompanied third grade students on the full-day field trip to the Gordon Carter Conservation site](/sites/smateprod9x1001.wwu.edu/files/styles/card_large/public/2022-01/Woodssquare.png?itok=o-JHBeA_)
WWU Science Education students developed, refined and helped implement the curriculum for Forest School.
Virtual Science Fair
![Hands pouring colored liquids into Erlenmeyer flask](/sites/smateprod9x1001.wwu.edu/files/styles/card_large/public/2022-01/colored%20flasks%20squared.jpg?itok=enKBXwG8)
WWU Science Education designed and ran a virtual science fair program during the Covid-19 pandemic
SPARK
![Student develops an understanding of how energy flows through circuits by building a circuit](/sites/smateprod9x1001.wwu.edu/files/styles/card_large/public/2022-01/SPARKGirlsquared.jpg?itok=qZTXu3ny)
WWU Science Education students developed, implemented, and refined curriculum to complement field trips to the museum.
Science, Engineering & Society
![Line drawings of STEM Icons](/sites/smateprod9x1001.wwu.edu/files/styles/card_large/public/2022-01/STEMEdIconsSquared250.png?itok=5AD0MflP)
High school science teachers and Western faculty are building a new 9th grade physical science course with units centered on issues of equity and justice within the Skagit Valley.
SEEK Grant
This NSF funded project is working to develop highly qualified teacher leaders in science at elementary grade levels.
Science Learning Continues
![Virtual Conference on a laptop](/sites/smateprod9x1001.wwu.edu/files/styles/card_large/public/2022-01/VirtualConferenceSquare.jpg?itok=goGlA7eb)
As part of their science education methods courses, WWU Science Education students during the Covid-19 pandemic created science content for early release days.