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Greetings!
They're here! The MSU Science Festival is pleased to offer 2 FREE Teacher workshops! Please share this email with your colleagues!
Review the descriptions below and click on the link to register. Please sign up early to ensure your spot! (no later than March 21st please)
Title: MSU 4-H Children's Garden presents: Collaborating Classrooms.
Presenter: Dr. Norman Lownds
Date: April 2nd
Time:4:30pm- 6:30pm
Capacity: 25
Recommended for: Elementary and Middle School Teachers
Location: Plant and Soil Science Building, The Curiosity Classroom, B102 (park in Horticulture Garden parking lot and enter main building)
Description:
The MSU 4-H Children’s Gardens want to be a vital local science resource to support, supplement, enhance and expand your science explorations. This workshop will focus on two aspects of being that science resource: 1) What we already have to offer, and 2) Other connections that teachers need and want.
Join us to explore numerous ways that you can connect to MSU resources and how you can connect your classes or clubs as well. We will look at and play with: teacher resources; on-line tools and connections; and activities and resources that you can start using right away. We will use the tools we already have as a springboard for exploring what other tools teachers need and want and how we can collaborate to make things happen.
Join us for a couple of hours of hands-on connections, activities and fun.
Click here to register:
Title: Science and Writing
Presenters:Terri Trupiano Barry, Assistant Professor, Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures
Deb Carmichael, Assistant Professor, Writing, Rhetoric, & American Culture
Trixie Smith, Director, MSU Writing Center
Gretchen Myers Hill, Professor, Animal Science
Maxine Davis, Specialist, Lyman Briggs
Suzanne Thiem, Associate Professor, Entomology Agriculture & Natural Resources
Date: April 3rd
Time: 4:30pm-6:30pm
Recommended for: High School Teachers
Capacity:50
Location: Kellogg Center, Riverside Room, (Garden Level. Park in Kellogg Parking Ramp)
Description:This is a high school teacher workshop to facilitate incorporating writing assignments into high school science courses to improve student comprehension and retention of significant course concepts through writing. Led by both MSU science and writing faculty, this workshop will present ways that writing can enhance student learning. Then, working in small groups with teachers at their tables, faculty will help teachers develop ideas to use writing in their courses, both to help students learn content and to improve students? ability to write well. Teachers will focus on a few concepts that are important to the overall learning goals in their class. The workshop will also provide some information on assessment and discuss ungraded assignments designed to improve student understanding of important concepts. Attendees will receive handouts providing a variety of sample assignments.
Click here to register:
Renee Leone, Coordinator
MSU Science Festival
University Outreach and Engagement
Michigan State University
Kellogg Center
219 S. Harrison Road, Rm. 93
East Lansing, MI 48824
Telephone: (517) 353-8977
Fax: (517) 432-9541
Email: [email protected]
Greetings!
They're here! The MSU Science Festival is pleased to offer 2 FREE Teacher workshops! Please share this email with your colleagues!
Review the descriptions below and click on the link to register. Please sign up early to ensure your spot! (no later than March 21st please)
Title: MSU 4-H Children's Garden presents: Collaborating Classrooms.
Presenter: Dr. Norman Lownds
Date: April 2nd
Time:4:30pm- 6:30pm
Capacity: 25
Recommended for: Elementary and Middle School Teachers
Location: Plant and Soil Science Building, The Curiosity Classroom, B102 (park in Horticulture Garden parking lot and enter main building)
Description:
The MSU 4-H Children’s Gardens want to be a vital local science resource to support, supplement, enhance and expand your science explorations. This workshop will focus on two aspects of being that science resource: 1) What we already have to offer, and 2) Other connections that teachers need and want.
Join us to explore numerous ways that you can connect to MSU resources and how you can connect your classes or clubs as well. We will look at and play with: teacher resources; on-line tools and connections; and activities and resources that you can start using right away. We will use the tools we already have as a springboard for exploring what other tools teachers need and want and how we can collaborate to make things happen.
Join us for a couple of hours of hands-on connections, activities and fun.
Click here to register:
Title: Science and Writing
Presenters:Terri Trupiano Barry, Assistant Professor, Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures
Deb Carmichael, Assistant Professor, Writing, Rhetoric, & American Culture
Trixie Smith, Director, MSU Writing Center
Gretchen Myers Hill, Professor, Animal Science
Maxine Davis, Specialist, Lyman Briggs
Suzanne Thiem, Associate Professor, Entomology Agriculture & Natural Resources
Date: April 3rd
Time: 4:30pm-6:30pm
Recommended for: High School Teachers
Capacity:50
Location: Kellogg Center, Riverside Room, (Garden Level. Park in Kellogg Parking Ramp)
Description:This is a high school teacher workshop to facilitate incorporating writing assignments into high school science courses to improve student comprehension and retention of significant course concepts through writing. Led by both MSU science and writing faculty, this workshop will present ways that writing can enhance student learning. Then, working in small groups with teachers at their tables, faculty will help teachers develop ideas to use writing in their courses, both to help students learn content and to improve students? ability to write well. Teachers will focus on a few concepts that are important to the overall learning goals in their class. The workshop will also provide some information on assessment and discuss ungraded assignments designed to improve student understanding of important concepts. Attendees will receive handouts providing a variety of sample assignments.
Click here to register:
Renee Leone, Coordinator
MSU Science Festival
University Outreach and Engagement
Michigan State University
Kellogg Center
219 S. Harrison Road, Rm. 93
East Lansing, MI 48824
Telephone: (517) 353-8977
Fax: (517) 432-9541
Email: [email protected]