Participants will receive desk copies ofthe standards and will be introduced to hands-on activities and curriculum materials they can use in their classrooms. These activities include GEM, AIMS and other innovative activities for K-8 teachers. This workshop is designed to provide elementary teachers the basic science process skills. By using hands-on strategies and activities teachers explore observation, inference, prediction, operational definitions, manipulating variables, measurement, estimation and experimentation. Participants will receive two books full ofactivities.
Science can be fun, interesting, and taught on a low budget.
This 1.5 day workshop explores activities in Earth, space, life, andphysical science that utilize discrepant events and demonstrations to explore science. The workshop will model teaching strategies andactivities that make science interesting and fun. Dr. Michael Odell More Later. All of the above projects provide teacher incentives such as materials, credit, and housing during the workshops.