Let us help your staff reach kids with science!
Who can benefit from Terrific Science Outreach for Educators?
School district leaders, museum education directors, youth club programming directors, and industry outreach coordinators
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School districts whose teachers need top-quality, standards-based science professional development to meet No Child Left Behind requirements. |
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Head Start and other early childhood directors who need science professional development for staff members that meets National Association for the Education of Young Children guidelines. |
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Girl Scout, Boy Scout, and 4-H program specialists and camp directors who need to provide outstanding and meaningful informal education programs for girls and boys, especially with content to reach the challenging tween and teen ages. |
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Science and children’s museum program specialists who are looking for exciting learning ideas that will attract families to the facility. |
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Corporate outreach programs that need help preparing volunteers to bring engaging, innovative, and accurate science learning to kids in the community. |
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Home school networks that want to support parent-educators in teaching chemistry and physics topics that may be challenging or unfamiliar. |
Background
For 25 years, Terrific Science Programs has fostered successful science teaching and learning across the United States and around the world. Our thousands of participants have found an inquiry-oriented, hands-on presentation in a stimulating workshop environment to be both practical and exciting! Terrific Science Outreach for Educators brings the award-winning Terrific Science programming to you through a stimulating menu of “off-the-shelf” workshop courses plus the option to request a custom course to meet your needs.
Objective
Our objective is providing the best possible science professional development to a wide range of adults who work with kids, in and out of the classroom.
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Hi Mickey! Hi Lynn! You are a fantastic duo teaching and doing demos in science so easily and spontaneously with smile and laughter and excitement. I was one of the participants in your workshop at the Chemistry Congress held at Bohol Tropics last April 14-16, 2009. That’s what we need here in the Philippine science classrooms. That’s how chemistry should be presented to high school students so that they will be attracted to the science and chemistry profession. Is this the first time you have done a workshop here in the Philippines? I wonder if there are high school teachers who were present in the workshop.
Five years ago my husband and I held one-week long Math-Chemcamps for Grades 5 & 6 for two succeeding summers at Mindanao State University in Marawi City. It was more of Kitchen Chemistry. We had experiments on finding densities and viscosities using the different liquids found in the kitchen. We studied the chemistry of baking bread and making ice cream. We learned how to do sleuthing like “who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?”. In between cooking or waiting for the dough to rise or the milk to cool down, my husband will do the math at play with the campers.
My husband and I are now both retirees but still have the passion to teach. My husband has devised some materials, kits, and games to help develop the minds of boys and girls, via thinking and reasoning. He is usually invited to speak at seminars and workshops. Hopefully he can have a website also just like what you have done. He calls it “MATH XZBT & XTRAVAGANZA: A Potpourri of Challenges & interactive Demos”.
Well, I enjoyed also the teaching materials in this website and have learned from it. I do part-time teaching only and I will surely make use of what I have learned from both of you. I will always visit your website and I hope to hear from also. Kudos to both of you!
“For the love of chemistry” ( I copy your punchline),
Mariella C. Alquiza
Silliman University
Dumaguete City
Mickey and Lynn,
Thank you so much for “Science Day” at Rescue Elementary School. I know that you normally present your programs directly to the teachers but I have to say seeing those children light-up when you did the experiments with them was refreshing and joyful. All of the children had a great time. The photos from this glorious day overwhelmingly support this claim.
It would be wonderful if this enthusiasm could continue and in your absence this falls to the instructors. I hope they listened and watched as their students came to life before our eyes.
Thank you so much!