Teacher Workshops
What floats your squash? Teachers examine the mysteries of mass, density and veggies.
The Center provides innovative, content-rich workshops for teachers at all levels. Our programs are designed to address local, state and national mandates to provide quality science instruction. Designed for teachers of grades K through 12, these workshops provide strategies for engaging students in inquiry-based, hands-on science.
Led by the Center's staff, teachers try out the activities themselves so they will have the confidence to bring them into their own classrooms. Content in physics, optics and chemistry accompanies practice with equipment and materials. The focus of the workshops changes from year to year and can be designed to address specific district needs and school improvement plans.
Comet Tales
In this NASA-funded workshop, scheduled for Oct. 30, 2008, teachers will participate in hands-on comet activities they can bring back to their classroom, take a tour of the lab and receive the curriculum "The Solar System: To the Planets, Comets and Beyond."
Ruediger Elementary School Partnership
CIRL educators demonstrate a science activity to teachers in these after-school mini-workshops open to all Leon County elementary school teachers.
Lab Crawl Workshops
These four-day workshops for Leon County teachers take place in the summer. Participants visit a different Tallahassee-area lab each day, then work through several classroom activities directly related to content material experienced in the laboratory setting. Use the above link to read about previous workshops.
For more information contact Pat Dixon at pdixon@magnet.fsu.edu or (850) 644-4707.
