Forty Oklahoma science teachers will use finger paints on Monday and put their handprint, thumbprint or signature on a huge banner to signify the start of the 5^th Annual Experimental Design workshop, hosted by Tulsa Public Schools and Public Service Company of Oklahoma.
 
Using colorful finger paints, the teachers will make their mark as 2005 participants in the annual workshop.
  
The banner will hang at Tulsa Public Schools’ Fulton Teaching & Learning Academy at 8906 East 34^th Street to commemorate the annual workshops, which have provided participants with effective strategies to help students develop skills to successfully conduct, analyze and report experiments.
The workshop is open to all Oklahoma science teachers who instruct grades 5-12, and the session content directly aligns with science process PASS standards.  PASS stands for Priority Academic Student Skills, which is state-mandated curriculum.
 
The workshop runs June 20-22.  Participants will also tour a PSO gas-fired generating station.          
 
Participants will receive instructional materials to help teach experimental design; the book, Students and Research, by Cothron, Giese and Rezba; and learn practical strategies for conducting experimental research, authentic assessment and working with parents.
 
For information, call Adrienne Elder, Secondary Science Resource Teacher for Tulsa Public Schools at 918-925-1139 or email Elderad@tulsaschools.org.
 
PSO, a unit of American Electric Power, is an electric utility company serving approximately 509,000 customers in eastern and southwestern Oklahoma. Based in Tulsa, PSO has more than 4,000 megawatts of generating capacity and offers some of the lowest energy prices in the US.