Space Physics Workshops for High School Teachers: Lessons Learned

We will discuss teacher workshops conducted within the program ``Connecting Sun City with Sun-Earth Connections.'' This program involves faculty from the College of Science at the University of Texas at El Paso, local teachers, and science educators, working to increase awareness of and enthusiasm for space science in the El Paso area. A series of teacher workshops aimed at middle and high school science teachers and presented by university faculty in the College of Science was held throughout the summer. These workshops aimed to provide space science-related instruction combined with classroom activities geared towards middle and high school students. We present methods and results from these and from follow-up workshops held with the attendees. We focus on the aspects deemed most valuable by the teachers themselves in their assessments of the workshops.