2023 Summer Teacher Workshops
Let Discovery Center Museum’s experienced science educators train your teachers on STEM and various science topics. Choose from our hands-on and interactive programs to enrich your students’ educational curricula. Please contact Denise at DeniseP@DiscoveryCenterMuseum.org to discuss scheduling these multi-day workshops for your school or district. Individual teachers can register using the links below.
Each course supplies you with materials to keep use with your students!
STEM in the Classroom/ Make it Move - Click here to register
Dates: June 27, 28, 29
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Grade Level: K-8
Cost: $25
13 PDCS
Incorporating hands-on STEM projects into your curriculum can be challenging. Let us help! Join us for hands-on STEM projects that you can bring back to your classroom. Projects include using the engineering design process to create your own towers, improving control of your airplane’s flight, incorporating Newton’s Laws into everyday activities, designing a hidden alarm, circuits and manufacturing vibrobots that you can use in your classroom.
Planets, Moons, and Stars - Click here to register
Date: July 11,12,13
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Grade Level: K-8
Cost: $25
13 PDCS
Use daytime techniques to learn about the night sky. Build and use astronomy tools to study stars, and find out how we know what we know about the universe. Topics include gravity, planets, constellations, sun, star maps, moons, telescopes, designing and creating lunar landers, moon rovers and hovercrafts for space exploration.
Wild About Weather - Click here to register
Date: July 25, 26, 27
Time:9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Grade Level: K-8
Cost: $25
13 PDCS
Investigate weather using hands-on methods and readily available materials. Construct homemade weather tools and learn to read the sky. Uncover the roles played by sun, air, and water, and find the link between the smallest breeze and the largest storm. Explore how cricket chirps forecast temperatures, incorporate weather tools for daily weather reports, simulate and identify clouds, as well as, learning conditions for severe weather for your class.
1 hour of Graduate Credit through the University of Saint Francis is available for each class.
*Register at http://stfrancis.edu/real/experiential
You will need to register with Discovery Center as well.
What teachers say about Discovery Center Educator Workshops:
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"This was an area that I knew little about making it difficult for me to teach this content. I learned a ton & have started to look at the world through the eyes of a scientist. I recommend this course to other teachers."
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“I loved all of the hands-on experiments and the detailed instruction of the content. They are very willing to share so much with us!”
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"This class convinced me that I can do hands-on weather science even if I don’t know all of the answers myself”
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"Hands-on activities! Varied activities for various grade levels. The amount of resources and materials was well beyond expectations."
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“Awesome! So many hands-on materials and great ideas to bring to my classroom.”
