{"id":10005,"date":"2025-10-24T21:26:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/?p=10005"},"modified":"2025-10-24T21:26:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:26:33","slug":"online-k-5-science-book-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/blog\/2025\/10\/24\/online-k-5-science-book-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Online K-5 Science Book Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join fellow elementary educators for a collaborative three-session book study, co-facilitated by NC DPI and our WNC Elementary Science\/STEM Community of Practice, exploring <strong><em><u><a href=\"https:\/\/nap.nationalacademies.org\/catalog\/26853\/rise-and-thrive-with-science-teaching-pk-5-science-and\">Rise and Thrive with Science<\/a><\/u><\/em><\/strong>, a practical and inspiring guide to strengthening <strong>science and engineering teaching and learning in K\u20135 classrooms<\/strong>.\u00a0 Together, we\u2019ll reflect on key strategies, share best practices, and consider how to apply ideas directly to our teaching. The book is available to read <strong>FREE<\/strong> online. Certificate of attendance (CEU) provided by DPI upon completion.\u00a0 <strong>An information session will be held on 10\/29\/25 from 4:00-4:30.\u00a0 Book study meetings will take place on 11\/19\/25, 1\/28\/26, and 3\/25\/26 from 3:30-5:00pm.\u00a0 Select <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1fE9G2WmiN4KimDancqDxzS3QmKURzFCWUQOJ0OuK07Y\/edit?tab=t.0\"><em>Register<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>for more information. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please share with K-5 educators!\u00a0 If you have questions, please contact Dr. Patricia Bricker at <a href=\"mailto:bricker@wcu.edu?subject=WNC%20Elementary%20Science%2FSTEM%20CoP\">bricker@wcu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1fE9G2WmiN4KimDancqDxzS3QmKURzFCWUQOJ0OuK07Y\/edit?tab=t.0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10006\" src=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/403\/2025\/10\/Rise-and-Thrive-Book-Study-2025-2026-003-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1978\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/403\/2025\/10\/Rise-and-Thrive-Book-Study-2025-2026-003-scaled.png 1978w, https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/403\/2025\/10\/Rise-and-Thrive-Book-Study-2025-2026-003-1280x1657.png 1280w, https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/403\/2025\/10\/Rise-and-Thrive-Book-Study-2025-2026-003-980x1268.png 980w, https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/403\/2025\/10\/Rise-and-Thrive-Book-Study-2025-2026-003-480x621.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1978px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join fellow elementary educators for a collaborative three-session book study, co-facilitated by NC DPI and our WNC Elementary Science\/STEM Community of Practice, exploring Rise and Thrive with Science, a practical and inspiring guide to strengthening science and engineering teaching and learning in K\u20135 classrooms.\u00a0 Together, we\u2019ll reflect on key strategies, share best practices, and consider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[87,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-virtualgatherings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10008,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10005\/revisions\/10008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}