Science@HCG
Access to Scientists, Boot Camps, and Job-embedded Coaching for Teachers and Leaders.   
 A community of learners where ALL are able to integrate disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) into an inquiry based learning environment. 

Boot Camps and Coaching Support

​HCG offers summer intensive tiered-learning opportunities for teachers and leaders.
Boot Camp Level 1: New Vision for Science Education
Boot Camp Level 2: Demystifying NGSS
Boot Camp Level 3: Innovation - STEM in Action

HCG provides a step‐by‐step approach to working effectively with Individuals and as a Teacher Team in the cycle of continuous improvement.

Contact us for more information and pricing

Ask our resident science expert questions at: info@thehcg.org

Q (Forest Heights Elementary School students): How are exoplanets found, how are the exoplanets named and where are they found?
​​A​: Exoplanets are planets that orbit a star(s) other than our Sun. Stars form from rotating gas and dust, and often times the exoplanets  form from smaller masses of material orbiting the star. There are technically a dozen or more methods in detecting an exoplanet, including the following;
Transit: A telescope can detect small dips in the brightness of stars, it then observes that the dips in brightness occur over regular periods of time, it could mean that an exoplanet is orbiting the star.
 Direct Imaging: This method best works when observing nearby stars. The star's light is blocked, barely lite exoplanets may be directly seen in the image as faint points of light, when observing over time, the exoplanet may be seen to move in its orbit around the star.
Wobble: The exoplanet is held in orbit with its star due to gravity, the imbalanced pull between the two creates a wobbling effect.
IAU (International Astronomical Union) is the governing board for the official naming of exoplanets. 
Simply put; The name of the parent star is then added to a series of lower cases letters.
Within the last decade there has been a record number of exoplanets detected. Even more exciting is that the number of exoplanets continues to increase...find out about the new  exoplanets at nasa.gov and exoplanets.org.
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Q (Montrose High School): Why is Earth getting warmer and how do we know?
A: Our atmosphere has been increasingly trapping the Earth's heat from radiating back into the upper layers of stratosphere.   The study of Climatology gives us weather data occurring over a period of time. The warming of our planet has been documented since 1914. The evidence of the Greenhouse Effects has been on the rise in the past century and continues to be a hot topic of concern....​
climate.nasa.gov
www.weather.gov