The PIMMS Academic Year Science Institutes include Biotechnology, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Physics. Each Institute offers two one-day workshops devoted to a specific theme addressed in the National Science Education Standards and the CT Science Curriculum Framework. They are designed to increase and up-date teachers' content knowledge and to engage teachers in practicing open-ended laboratory explorations and in using innovative activities involving instructional materials and technology. Participants in each institute will receive resources and/or instructional strategies to support teaching the new learning in their classrooms.
| There are currently no Academic Year Science programs scheduled for 2003-04 |
Biotechnology Institutes
For teachers of grades 5-12
Participants learn to use biotechnology techniques and protocols adapted for classroom use and ways to prepare and use inexpensive materials to teach biotechnology.
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Biotechnology
Update: Bioethics & Developmental Biology Grades 7-12 |
Tuesday, March 18 Registration
Deadline: |
Wesleyan
University Middletown |
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Chemistry Institutes
For teachers of grades 5-12
Participants learn innovative ways to engage students in thinking critically and logically. They also develop content-driven, thought-provoking, inquiry-based experiments and demonstrations.
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Using the
Graphing Calculator in Chemistry Grades 9-12 |
Thursday, Jan. 9 8:30 - 2:00 Registration Deadline: Jan. 9 |
Greater
Hartford Academy for Mathematics and Science Hartford |
James Cherry demonstrates chemical principals
during a PIMMS 2000 Chemistry Institute.
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Earth and Environmental Sciences Institutes
For teachers of grades 7-12
Teachers learn about the processes and forces that shape the structure and composition of the Earth and of the water cycle, the distribution and characteristics of water, its influences on human activity and uses of technology. Each workshop includes a field study focusing on the earth science topics covered in the session.
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Mapping
CT: Geographic Information System Grades 7-12 |
Friday, January 10 8:30 - 3:30 Registration
Deadline: |
Wesleyan University, Middletown |
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Natural Hazards: Volcanoes & Earthquakes Grades 7-12 |
Friday, March 21 8:30 - 3:30 Registration Deadline: March 7 |
Wesleyan University, Middletown |
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Physics Institutes for High School Teachers
For teachers of grades 9-12
Teachers learn new concepts and ideas in physics, conduct innovative laboratory investigations and demonstrations, and how to use the new instructional materials.
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Thinking
Conceptually
FEATURE PRESENTATIONS: "Teaching Physics Conceptually" Paul Hewitt, Author, Conceptual Physics "Engaging Demonstrations and Activities" Ron Perkins, Co-founder, Educational Innovations, Inc. |
Tuesday, October 29 8:30 - 3:15
Registration Deadline:
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Greater Hartford Academy for Mathematics and Science Hartford |
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Centennial Celebration of Flight FEATURE PRESENTATIONS: "Future Designs in Flight" Jim Breneman, Chief Design Engineer, Pratt & Whitney "The Wright Brothers" Art Ellis, Editor, Inventing Flight Curriculum, Eli Whitney Museum |
Wednesday, March 19 8:30 - 3:15
Registration Deadline:
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Wesleyan
University Middletown |
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