Headline Science Science, Math, and Literacy Behind the Headlines
Join the MITS (Museum Institute for Teaching Science) educators in any one of nine different regions throughout Massachusetts to reinforce, renew, and reintroduce concepts in these areas. Take part in the Summer Institute with museums involved in sharing and engaging teachers in Grades K-8 with inquiry-based, hands-on activities.
Headline Science will take a closer look at science topics we encounter in the news. Examining current events is a great way to make science, technology, engineering, and mathematics exciting and engaging for students. Learn methods to teach topics like climate change, water quality and quantity, air quality, and energy in a hands-on, minds-on, inquiry-based way. A free subscription to Volume 20 of Science Is Elementary will keep you connected with background information, resource lists, and activities related to Headline Science.
Earn PDPs and College Credits.
Teachers will learn how to: Engage their students; Connect the frameworks; Develop inquiry-based, hands-on, minds-on activities; Integrate the inquiry-based methodology across their curriculum; and Create memorable learning experiences.
The Institute is designed for K-8 science, math, classroom, special education, pre-service, and substitute teachers. Aides, curriculum specialists, home schoolers, and administrators are welcome.
Teachers will learn how to: Engage their students; Connect the frameworks; Develop inquiry-based, hands-on, minds-on activities; Integrate the inquiry-based methodology across their curriculum; and Create memorable learning experiences.
Courses are facilitated by museum educators at museums, nature centers, aquariums, zoos, and botanical gardens utilizing their specific resources. There are nine regions in Massachusetts with 4-7 sites that you will visit. Click on the region you wish to attend for the list of sites, and the contact information for the Lead Museum Educator who will answer any questions you may have regarding the institute activities.
The full syllabi and activity synopsis for each region will be available online February 2007.
Explore what you know and what you can do to excite your students with current events in science, math and writing. Participants will work with Kathy Mullin, OceanQuest and Pat Harcourt, Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. This one-week institute is jammed packed with engaging activities applying current trends in education research relating to how students view their world. Topics will include recognizing bad science, life cycles, ocean currents, and using argument with inquiry in the classroom.
