This workshop will employ the careful use of extremely delicate and sensitive scientific instruments - your eyes, ears, nose, fingers and imagination. Participants will hit the ground running and do real-world labs that show how science is done and how science data is collected and organized. Students walk into classrooms liking science and should walk out the same way. Hands-on science is the way to help make that happen. Phonemic awareness is the ability to understand that the words we speak are made up of individual sounds - phonemes.
Phonemic awareness deals with the sounds of spoken words which is a prerequisite to reading.
This session presents phonemic awareness activities presented through the eight multiple intelligences and hands-on experiences incorporating the arts. May 18 Orienteers must find their way across unfamiliar terrain using only a topographical map, a compass and their skills. Orienteering requires students to use critical thinking skills, math skills and physical activity as they navigate the natural world experiencing the excitement and lore of a map. Participants in this session will be given the opportunity to experience how they can bring the action to their classrooms to enhance math, science, geography or physical and special needs programs. Since that time, Lesley College has become Lesley University and has expanded it's off-campus programs from coast to coast.