{"id":9878,"date":"2025-01-14T01:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T01:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/?p=9878"},"modified":"2025-01-14T01:49:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T01:49:54","slug":"engaging-in-science-engineering-practices-at-the-beginning-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/blog\/2025\/01\/14\/engaging-in-science-engineering-practices-at-the-beginning-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging in Science &amp; Engineering Practices at the Beginning of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 12, 2024, our WNC Elementary STEM Community of Practice virtual gathering highlighted <span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><em><strong>Engaging in Science &amp; Engineering Practices at the Beginning of the Year\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>through a 4<\/span><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">th grade example.\u00a0 The team that shared included Leah Downing from Hazelwood Elementary in Haywood County and Patricia Bricker from Western Carolina University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Related links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1RuUJggRETeI2LzzzRJBoNvAfzc1bmSyM\/view?usp=sharing\">November 2024 Intro Slides<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1jcqzgiNudarbPyO6x6V-UP54H0gaXSRP\/view?usp=sharing\">Slides from November 2024 Highlight: Engaging in Science &amp; Engineering Practices at the Beginning of the Year-A Fourth Grade Example<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1mrUkjxKVyg4r6KgjQqeHPPw6f0eURxtyGgB8nQ5BJIk\/edit?usp=sharing\">List of registered people who want to share contact info<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/bcsemail.org\/bcs-science\/home\">Buncombe County Schools Science<\/a> <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/drawings\/d\/1nZySL0C7WomcyZ4riypIptBn2YWkM2HdLNUdnc0oFm8\/edit\">Buncombe County Schools Science Thinking Routines Connections<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1CqT-vRYZ1XS79SBysvLHiLOgFAlFB0ZlpuVTvjIdcIg\/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.crx31uq9cp8i\">Buncombe County Schools Science Thinking Routines<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1jpClSdQ-TtWFp9ZZumcbRb3JWgoc7o9G\">2024-2025 WNC Elementary STEM Community of Practice Google folder<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 12, 2024, our WNC Elementary STEM Community of Practice virtual gathering highlighted Engaging in Science &amp; Engineering Practices at the Beginning of the Year\u00a0through a 4th grade example.\u00a0 The team that shared included Leah Downing from Hazelwood Elementary in Haywood County and Patricia Bricker from Western Carolina University. Related links: November 2024 Intro [&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":[86,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlights","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878","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=9878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9880,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/revisions\/9880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/wncelementarystemcop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}