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The objectives of the program are to familiarize teachers with local research resources, to encourage collaboration among teachers and scientists, to help teachers foster enthusiasm for science among their students, and to improve student achievement in science. With funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the program familiarizes participants with Science in Action concepts and materials Information about almost 200 programs was collected by the committee in 1992 and 1993, and the information was used to assess the characteristics of effective professional-development programs.
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CALIFORNIA 3. City Science Program, Science and Health Education Partnership University of California-San Francisco; San Francisco Unified School District Contact: Liesl Chatman, San Francisco, (415)
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753-7073, FAX: (415) 681-2039, Internet: n/a Motivated by the belief that teachers' skills and confidence in conservation education can affect student attitudes toward the environment, the San Francisco Zoo has expanded its role in classroom science education to include teacher programs.
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Organized by scientists, social scientists, and science teachers, activities include a 10-day laboratory workshop at one of four sites in California, a 3-day summer symposium, and several 2-day academic year followup meetings. Program goals are to familiarize participants with new teaching strategies, leadership skills, current issues in science-education reform and biology research, the Science Framework for California Public Schools, opportunities for networking with teachers and scientists, and hands-on activities for the classroom.
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are designed to update participants' knowledge of the nature of science, general organic evolution, and human evolution and to help them integrate these topics into their teaching. Teachers are encouraged to apply in teams from schools, school districts, or geographic regions so as to have colleagues to work with after the summer.
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Through networking activities and a 14-day residential summer institute in the mountains, the project aims to provide high-quality professional development for teachers, establish an active science-education network in the Central Valley, and promote community participation in science education. Ultimately, the project aims to improve the education of K-12 students, who will benefit from the efforts of better-informed, qualified, and motivated teachers.
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With assistance from a local school district, Amgen integrated the Lab Kit into the curricula of 20 high schools during the 1994-1995 school year, reaching a total of 75 teachers and 2,500 students. Amgen has also sponsored a school lecture series and a teacher-intern program.
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With funding from the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Urban Community Service Program, and the Joseph Drown Foundation, the center provides lectures, laboratories, curriculum-development activities, and discussions addressing cutting-edge issues in biology. Program facilitators have developed participant materials into biology and life-science curriculum guides for the Los Angeles Unified School District that have also been distributed nationally.
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CAPSI also has initiated the Pasadena Center for Improving Elementary Science Education through a partnership with the Pasadena Unified School District and support from the National Science Foundation. This program is designed to support other urban school districts in California that seek to introduce or enhance high-quality hands-on science instruction based on the Pasadena model.
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The Science Teacher Enhancement and Enrichment Project (STEEP) consists of 3-week summer programs that emphasize science content, pedagogy, and leadership training; the goals of the program are to upgrade the science-content background and scienceteaching methods of K-6 teachers, to provide teams of teachers with leadership training and staff-development skills, to develop teacher leaders to implement an enrichment program for underserved students, and to develop teacher leaders to implement parent and community involvement in science education.
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The program, which reached hundreds of K-12 teachers in a 4-year period, was funded by Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education State Grant funds and a small registration fee paid by the teachers. The program is no longer active.
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The program aims to improve the participants' understanding of atmospheric sciences, related mathematics- and science-teaching methods, and laboratory work. With funding from the National Science Foundation, the workshops bring in teachers from eight school districts in California, Colorado, North Carolina, and Texas.
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It provides a rationale and framework for developing integrated science programs having as their conceptual focus the earth system. The ESE Program, with centers at Ohio State University and the University of Northern Colorado, assists teachers to develop curriculum, instructional approaches, and assessment procedures that address the National Standards for Science Education developed by the National Research Council.
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441-4541, FAX: (203) 441-5728, Internet: n/a Pfizer Central Research has collaborated with the National Association of Biology Teachers to develop a source book of laboratory exercises in recombinant DNA technology for use in middle- and high-school classrooms.
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The program is a collaborative effort between Sacred Heart University, Fairfield Public Schools, area school districts, and community resources. The partnerships extend a staffdevelopment model throughout the state and affect about 5,000 K-12 teachers of science and mathematics and their supervisors in 67 towns.
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326-6670, FAX: (202) 371-9849, Internet: egonzale@aaas.org Proyecto Futuro works with teachers, principals, school-council members, and parents to bring about excellence in K-8 mathematics and science education for Hispanic children.
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287-2063, FAX: (202) 2X7-2070, Internet: Ibenton@nas.edu To catalyze the systemic reform of science education in local school districts throughout the country, the National Science Resources Center (NSRC)
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The Smithsonian Institution and the National Academy of Sciences operate NSRC to improve the teaching of science for all children in the nation's school districts. NSRC collects and disseminates information about exemplary science-teaching resources, develops innovative science-curriculum materials, and sponsors outreach activities to develop and sustain hands-on science programs.
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466-5728, FAX: (202) 466 5729, Internet: n/a With funding from the National Science Foundation, the American Meteorological Society has initiated Project Atmosphere, a major teacher-education program.
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Through 8 days of hands-on experiences, lectures, laboratories, and field studies, participants learn about water quality, coastal habitats, endangered species, fish, and invertebrates. Facilitated by education and research staff of the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, the program provides the use of boats and biological sampling equipment to explore tropical hammocks, barrier islands, mangrove forests, and seagrass beds.
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The academy works closely with universities, community colleges, museums, and other education reformers. This systemic "retooling" process guides schools in using job-embedded professional development to re-create themselves as true learning organizations.
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333-0438, FAX: (217) 244-1224, Internet: georgeki@uluc.edu With funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the School of Life Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a continuing program for educating teachers and, through them, their students in molecular biology and biotechnology.
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Funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the program has two major goals: networking isolated rural teachers into a virtual community and promoting hands-on, minds-on science through the use of teacher-prepared science kits. Month-long summer workshops and academic-year meetings are conducted for teachers in the use of the latest computer educational technology and approaches to teaching hands-on science.
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To encourage networking, the group distributes a monthly two-page newsletter to biology teachers in area private and public schools.
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p u r d u e . e d u Since 1990, with support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Indiana Department of Education, the Department of Biological Sciences of Purdue University has offered summer institutes for high-school biology teachers in Indiana.
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285-8840, FAX: (317) 285-1624, Internet: 01jrhendrix@bsu.edu Since 1978, Project Genethics has involved 510 secondary-school biology teachers in 2-week summer workshops on human genetics and bioethical decisionmaking and 228 teachers in 4-week on-campus workshops.
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532-6789, FAX: (913) 532-6806, Internet: tmanney@ksuvm.ksu.edu With funding from the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the GENE Project promotes training, networking, and logistical support for middle- and high-school life-science and biology teachers.
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Participating teachers will be trained to give workshops in their school districts during the 1996 school year. Logistical support will be provided by the GENE staff.
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As volunteers, Colby scientists visit classrooms, respond to teachers' inquiries, host field trips to Colby science facilities, or lend equipment to the schools. With a grant from the Maine Department of Education under the Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education State Grant, Colby established small teams of pre-K through grade 7 teachers and members of the Colby science faculty.
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The program is introduced with a half-day or full-day workshop and ends with a 2-hour followup. The curriculum has been formally adopted by four school districts.
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Committee on Education Affairs, the High-School Science Teacher Summer Research Fellowships program places high-school teachers of biology and chemistry in the biochemistry laboratories of individual ASBMB members for 8-10 weeks of hands-on activities. The goal of the program is to update teachers about the latest research and techniques in the fields of biology and biochemistry.
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The overall program goals were to encourage teachers to use the outdoors as their classroom and thereby to increase student excitement about the biological sciences. Funding for the program came from an Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education State Grant.
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696-3853, FAX: (301) 694-7653, Internet: pjhummer@aol.com The Maryland Association of Biology Teachers (MABT)
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662-5537, FAX: (413) 662-5010, Internet: efiliaul@nasc.mass.edu The Consortium for the Improvement of Math and Science Teaching, a division of the Educators' Resource Center at North Adams State College, is a collaborative effort among all Berkshire County and several Franklin County school districts, a 4-year college, and two community colleges.
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845-4641, FAX: (508) 842 8512, Internet: n/a The Greater Boston Biology Teachers Group is an informal gathering of K-12 life-science teachers who meet once a month throughout the year.
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CityLab is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (SEPA) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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521-2667, FAX: (617) 521-3199, Internet: swilliams@vmsvax.simmons.edu Project For Products, Processes, and Technology in the Elementary School Curriculum is designed to improve science education in elementary schools by facili
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Program officers expect to increase the number of K-12 teachers that they reach through programs established at the Dudley Wright Center for Science Education, the Center for Science and Mathematics Teaching, and the Department of Child Study. All are dedicated to integrating science education into elementary-school teacher-preparation programs.
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MICHIGAN 91. Teacher inservice programs Division of Science Education, Michigan State University Contact: Clarence Suelter, East Lansing, (517)
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In cooperation with school districts, the society has also offered teacher-inservice programs for 6 years. These programs cover a wide range of topics, including insect anatomy, life cycles, and diversity; related educational games and puzzles; endangered species; observing, studying, and collecting insects and spiders; and attracting butterflies and hummingbirds.
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577-3105, FAX: (313) 577-6891, Internet: hhmi@sun.science.wayne.edu With funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Wayne State College of Science has offered summer science institutes to high-school science teachers.
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Equipment for this program was purchased with financial support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan. The objective of the program is to establish a pool of shared laboratory equipment enabling individual schools to expand dramatically the hands-on scientific experiences available to their students.
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MISSOURI 100. Biotechnology Education Project Mathematics and Science Education Center Contact: Paul Markovits, St.
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102. Molecular Biology: The Gene Revolution Mathematics and Science Education Center; Washington University Contact: Cynthia Moore, St.
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This 1-month program provides participants with 3 hours of graduate credit through extensive hands-on laboratory activities and lectures addressing theoretical aspects of molecular biology. The program is funded by Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education State Grants and the National Science Foundation and is coordinated by the chair of the Biomedical Sciences Department, a local highschool biology teacher, and the district science-curriculum coordinator.
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The focus is experiential in order for children and their parents to learn science and problem-solve together; it stresses the process of scientific thinking, rather than specific content. During a 4-day workshop at Rutgers University, elementary-school teachers are trained in all the Rutgers Family Science workshop techniques and the hands-on activities and experiments, including strategies that specifically promote the participation of girls and ethnic and racial-minority children and parents.
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TORCH institutes are led by teams of teachers from the core institute who have developed a condensed 1-week version of the program, which they take to sites easily accessible to local teachers. TORCH institutes are hosted by colleges and universities, school districts, and local education agencies, which often provide opportunities for earning graduate credit or continuing-education units for participation in the program.
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The Leadership Institute in Human and Molecular Genetics was developed in 1993 with NSF support and provides intensive training for outstanding biology teachers nationwide who have already implemented units in molecular genetics and have proven networking abilities. The 20-day institute is held at the DNA Learning Center and includes advanced experimentation, computer applications, instructional pedagogy, and leadership skills.
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735-1856, FAX: n/a, Internet: n/a With funding from a Dwight D Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education State Grant, Elmira College brings together 25 local high-school biology teachers for a 2-week summer workshop.
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443-9150, FAX: (315) 443-1142, Internet: druger@sued.syr.edu With funding from an Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education State Grant, Syracuse University brings together a group of first-year regents biology teachers for a 10-day summer institute.
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p a c e . e d u Funded by an Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education State Grant, Pace University's campus in Pleasantville, New York, offers a 1-week summer session and a 1-day followup workshop to 17 New York City elementary-school teachers.
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Workshop topics and activities include field work with a scientist, learning and practicing Eco-Inquiry hands-on activities, analyzing students' ecology misconceptions, reflecting on instructional and evaluation strategies, experiencing cooperative learning, and using writing as a tool for teaching science. Workshops are held at schools and science centers around the country.
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262-2716, FAX: (718) 262-2652, Internet: schlein@ycvax.york.cuny.edu In 1987-1990, with funding from the National Science Foundation, Project Leadership offered summer institutes and academic-year workshops to high-school biology teachers in the New York metropolitan area.
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127. Teacher Inservice Programs Natural Science Center of Greensboro Contact: Rick Betton, Greensboro, (910)
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130. UNC Mathematics and Science Education Network University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Contact: Gerry Madrazo, Chapel Hill, (919)
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The network's major components are K-12 professional development, a precollege program for minority-group and female students in grades 6-12, and applied research. Because the centers are spread across the state, this structure allows for building responsive relationships at regional and local levels with teachers, schools, school districts, and businesses.
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The ESE Program, with centers at Ohio State University and the University of Northern Colorado, assists teachers to develop curriculum, instructional approaches, and assessment procedures that address the National Standards for Science Education developed by the National Research Council. Several school systems in central Ohio, Colorado, Florida, and New York have developed such approaches with the assistance of the ESE centers.
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Concerned with improving science education in elementary and secondary schools, members provide demonstrations for local teachers, develop chemistry-enrichment courses and career presentations, offer laboratory tours, and arrange donations of laboratory equipment to area schools.
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in the Biological Sciences program operates with funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The program offers courses and workshops primarily in the summer for high-school biology teachers.
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867-0257, FAX: (503) 867-0320, Internet: osisv@ccmail.orst.edu The Marine Education/Sea Grant program at the Hatfield Marine Science Center has involved teachers in marine-science field work and hands-on activities for over 20 years.
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offers audiovisual materials for use in teacher inservice programs. A highlight of the materials is a film called, The Great Horseshoe Crab Field Trip, which outlines the benefits and mechanics of field trips.
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The goal of the institutes, which were funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, was to provide teachers with a review of present understandings of behavior in terms of nervous-system function and to involve teachers in discussion of the relevance of such material both for science curricula and for precollege education generally. Participants in the institutes, scheduled to be offered again in 1996 and 1997, have formed a resource group, Brain/Behavior Link, and work with college faculty during the year on a variety of curriculum-development and exchange programs.
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The objectives of the partnership are to improve the quality of K-12 education in biological and biomedical sciences; to improve the general level of science literacy of precollege teachers; to interest young people, especially women and minority-group members, in careers in the biological sciences and science education; and to improve the public perception of science, science teachers, and research scientists by illuminating the processes and accomplishments of science. During the summer, participants are expected to construct a teaching module that they take back to their schools.
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The program objectives are to expose K-12 teachers to current techniques and materials in environmental education and to familiarize them with the flora and fauna of the southern Appalachians through hands-on explorations. The program, which offers a number of scholarships to participants each year, is available for graduate credit.
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Funding for these programs was provided by the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Texas Coordinating Board, Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education State Grants, and other sources.
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Dedicated to supporting laboratorybased science education in classrooms throughout Houston, the program has developed an interactive resource network that links middle-school teachers, Rice University faculty, and practicing scientists. In addition, the program has set up a Model Science Laboratory at an inner-city middle school, which acts as a site for various activities.
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The program is projected to result in the professional development of 216 teachers.
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~159. Houston Science Education Partnership (BrainLink)
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Through workshops and field work, the programs aim to increase participants' knowledge of natural history, improve their repertoire of classroom activities, enhance student learning, develop and compile curricular materials, and help teachers to network with each other. Participants are encouraged to use VINS as a resource throughout their teaching careers.
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offers inservice programs to hundreds of teachers each year. The primary goal of these workshops is to bring biology teachers together to share classroom ideas and experiences, become familiar with new technology and diverse methods of teaching in the field, and improve student outcomes in their classrooms.
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The company offers shadow programs, during which middle- and high-school students are matched with employees for a 1-day site visit at Merck. The Teacher Intern Program provides teachers with the opportunity to spend 2 weeks at Merck in activities that provide an overview of the facility.
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They received one graduate credit for each course. With funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the program provided lectures, seminars, demonstrations, workshops, and discussions.
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for Science and Technology offers this workshop to middle-school and high-school science teachers. Participants explore, through hands-on activities, how computers are used at CVGS to provide a variety of learning experiences.
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Through using and restocking each kit several times during the school year, the Science Kit Center is able to provide an efficient and cost-effective method of supporting elementary-school science education. In addition, the Science Kit Center staff provides resources, technical assistance, and in-class model lessons and demonstrations for region teachers and students.
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For their participation, teachers receive a $500 stipend, University of Washington credits, opportunities to borrow biotechnology-laboratory equipment kits, and classroom visits from the scientist-mentors. Initial funding for the program came from the center; current funding is from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Discuren Charitable Foundation, and other local foundations.
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The project links people working in industry, public schools, and the university to integrate work experience in science and mathematics with academic study and leadership training. The project is supported by the local business community.
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Funded by money from the Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education State Grant and the National Science Foundation, the program, now in its sixth year, encourages continuing activities among workshop participants during the school year.
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All workshops have a science focus but cover a variety of formats, such as infusing science concepts across the curriculum (how to learn about science in mathematics, language arts, social studies, and other subjects) ; meeting national and state guidelines in science education (e.g., becoming familiar with the Benchmarks for Science Literacy and Science for All Americans)
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The Wisconsin Teacher Enhancement Program in Biology: Summer Institute offers quality education in the biological sciences. Teachers are provided an opportunity to review and update their science education through modules offered in a variety of subjects, including human genetics; molecular and cell biology; plant, animal, and environmental biology; and elementary science.
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265-3168, FAX: n/a, Internet: Igilchrist @ macc.wisc.edu The Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers (WSST) is dedicated to the promotion and improvement of science education in Wisconsin.
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