Course Description
Welcome to the university course Chemistry 1 for Teachers. This course will focus on atomic structure, compounds and their properties, reactions, and stoichiometric changes, states of matter, and end with energy changes. It's important to note that this is a college-level course and you will be expected to understand the material at a much higher level than you will likely incorporate in your classroom.
This college-level course meets the Utah State Science Endorsement requirements for:
The course integrates chemistry content with the Utah SEEd Standards and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), emphasizing Science and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Disciplinary Core Ideas. Participants will strengthen both their chemistry content knowledge and instructional practices through lesson plan development.
Time Commitment: Approximately 6–8 hours per week.
Note: This course does not satisfy Utah's separate Three-Dimensional Science and Engineering Pedagogical Knowledge requirement.
12-week online course
Fixed schedule (not self-paced)
Weekly modules must be completed on time
Earn 3 semester credits through Southern Utah University (SUU) upon successful completion
The Utah State Endorsement Incentive Program is currently scheduled to end after Spring 2029. Beginning then, UtSTA endorsement courses will cost $1,500, with no reimbursement provided by the State or UtSTA.
Contracted Utah public school educators who are current UtSTA members: $50 registration fee (refundable upon successful completion).
All other participants: $900 non-refundable course fee.
Participants seeking university credit must also register with Southern Utah University (SUU). The $69 SUU credit fee is reimbursed for eligible participants who successfully complete the course with a C (74%) or higher. Registration instructions will be emailed after enrollment.
Contracted Utah public school educators who earn a C (74%) or higher will receive reimbursement for:
The $50 UtSTA registration fee
The $69 SUU credit fee
Participants who are not contracted Utah public school educators are not eligible for reimbursement.
Current membership in the Utah Science Teachers Association (UtSTA) is required to enroll.
A minimum grade of C (74%) is required to successfully complete the course and qualify for reimbursement (if eligible).
If you cancel or withdraw 14 days or more after the course begins:
You are responsible for the remaining course balance of $650.
Registration and university credit fees are non-refundable.
A Withdrawal (W) will appear on your SUU transcript.
Please refer to the Refund Policy for complete details.
Genetics is the study of heredity and how traits are passed from one generation to another, how these traits are affected by environmental factors, and the molecular basis for these traits. It requires background knowledge from both Biology and Chemistry to fully understand the concepts presented. It's important to note that this is a college-level course and you will be expected to understand the material at a much higher level than you will likely incorporate in your classroom.
Biology 1: Genetics
The course integrates genetics content with the Utah SEEd Standards and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), emphasizing Science and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Disciplinary Core Ideas. Participants will strengthen both their genetics content knowledge and instructional practices through lesson plan development.
Contracted Utah public school educators who are current UtSTA members:$50 registration fee (refundable upon successful completion).
All other participants:$900 non-refundable course fee.
You are responsible for the remaining course balance.
This is an introductory course on the materials that make up the Earth and the processes that modify them. It's important to note that this is a college-level course and you will be expected to understand the material at a much higher level than you will likely incorporate in your classroom.
Core Science: Geology
Earth Science 1: Geology
The course integrates geology content with the Utah SEEd Standards and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), emphasizing Science and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Disciplinary Core Ideas. Participants will strengthen both their geology content knowledge and instructional practices through lesson plan development.
This human anatomy teaching course has three main objectives that will be the focus of the course:
Biology 1: Human Anatomy
The course integrates anatomy content with the Utah SEEd Standards and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), emphasizing Science and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Disciplinary Core Ideas. Participants will strengthen both their anatomy content knowledge and instructional practices through lesson plan development.
Environmental Science is an interdisciplinary science course that integrates principles from biology, chemistry, ecology, geology, and non-science disciplines. It involves the study of interactions between human activities and biological and physical environments on all scales, from the local to the global.
Earth Science 1
The course integrates environmental science content with the Utah SEEd Standards and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), emphasizing Science and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Disciplinary Core Ideas. Participants will strengthen both their environmental science content knowledge and instructional practices through lesson plan development.
This course fulfills the laboratory safety certification requirement for all Utah secondary science endorsements. Participants will explore laboratory safety practices, risk management, chemical handling and storage, emergency procedures, and strategies for creating safe and effective learning environments.
This college-level course prepares science teachers to implement current safety standards and best practices in secondary science classrooms and laboratories.
Time Commitment: Approximately 3–5 hours per week.
4-week online course
Earn 0.5 semester credits through Southern Utah University (SUU) upon successful completion
All other participants: $150 non-refundable course fee.
All participants seeking university credit must also register for 0.5 semester credits through Southern Utah University (SUU). The $11.50 SUU credit fee is reimbursed for eligible participants who successfully complete the course with a C (74%) or higher. Registration instructions will be emailed after enrollment.
The $11.50 SUU credit fee
Join UtSTA for a one hour event with Dr. Perry Ridge of BYU
How increasing fire in Utah is changing ecosystem and human health.
UtSTA Members - FREE - If you would like to donate to the Richard Tolman Scholarship do so under the donations button at the bottom of the home page.
Nonmembers will be $40.00. (become a member and attend for free). All proceeds go to the Richard Tolman Scholarship
This will be a one hour virtual event where Perry will share his passion of the discovery of patterns and unexpected genetics
When you register, please enter your CACTUS number if you would like to receive one relicensure point.
NOTE: If you are not a current member of UtSTA you can renew your membership or join the Utah Science Teachers Association today ($20-35/year) and save money on your registration costs. To join today, CLICK HERE.
Join UtSTA for a one hour virtual event with Brittny Amott
How People Learned to Fly by Fran Hodgkins
Objective: Our goal is to demonstrate how literature can be used as a catalyst for developing analytical writing skills within the context of scientific inquiry. By using selected books as mentor texts, this session will guide teachers in initiating and enhancing students' analytical writing abilities, intertwined with scientific practices. The focus will be on leveraging inquiry-based writing exercises to achieve proficiency in the writing standards.
Attendees will receive a free copy of one book! FREE
Nonmembers cost is $40.00 to register.
NOTE: If you are not a current member of UtSTA you can renew your membership or join the Utah Science Teachers Association today ($20-25/year) To join today, CLICK HERE.
Bioinformatics/Alzheimer's disease genetics
I research Alzheimer's with a significant component of my effort focused on Pacific Islander populations. Additionally, I develop computational approaches to understanding how genetic variation leads to differences in traits. I work at the intersection of science and technology. Science is moving this direction-towards being a data-rich, data-driven discipline, rather than one focused on experimental work in a laboratory setting, or generating data. The bottleneck in scientific progress has largely shifted to what to do with the vast amounts of data available, rather than generating the data. Additionally, this has potentially broader benefits. We live in a time of unlimited information. Some true. Some false. Some a mix of the two. Developing numeric literacy, an ability to evaluate information presented to us is imperative.
The purpose of the Utah Science Teaching Association shall be the advancement, stimulation, extension, improvement, and coordination of science teaching in all fields of science at all education levels.
email: dmonson@utsta.org
Address:
PO Box 232
Riverton, UT 84065-0119
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