Enhance your Minnesota Science Standards History and Nature of Science knowledge using environment, soil, water and climate to provide the context and content for exploring the relevance of science.
Designed with input from elementary teachers, this workshop will help you better prepare students for science assessments. You’ll conduct hands-on, active-learning experiments and observations involving field and laboratory data gathering, interpretation and summary. Become more comfortable doing science in the classroom and using science as the media for reading and mathematics in an active-learning mode.
You will work in small groups to design and micro-teach two lessons during the workshop and you will develop one lesson independently with the support of workshop facilitators.
We’ll use the Prairie Ecology Bus as a mobile laboratory to explore soils, water and biomes of southwest Minnesota in addition to field explorations at the Southwest Research and Outreach Center. You’ll also be introduced to grade-appropriate science literature and local science resource citizens able to assist in the teaching of science.
University of Minnesota Southwest Research and Outreach Center, Lamberton, MN
Dr. Vern Cardwell (Distinguished Teaching Professor, U of M), Dr. JoAnne Buggey (retired professor, U of M), Susan Anderson (K-12 Life and Natural Sciences Education Specialist, U of M), Chrystal Dunker (executive director and instructor, Prairie Ecology Bus Center)
Materials, lunches, mileage, stipends and assistance with graduate credits will be covered by a grant from the MN Office of Higher Education’s Improving Teacher Quality Program.
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