Teacher Workshops

What floats your squash? Teachers examine the mysteries of mass, density and veggies.

The Center provides innovative, content-rich workshops for teachers at all levels. Our programs are designed to address local, state and national mandates to provide quality science instruction. Designed for teachers of grades K through 12, these workshops provide strategies for engaging students in inquiry-based, hands-on science.

Led by the Center’s staff, teachers try out the activities themselves so they will have the confidence to bring them into their own classrooms. Content in physics, optics and chemistry accompanies practice with equipment and materials. The focus of the workshops changes from year to year and can be designed to address specific district needs and school improvement plans.

The 2008 Lab Crawl workshops for Leon County teachers will take place in June and July 2008. Participants in these four-day workshops will visit a different Tallahassee-area lab each day, then work through several classroom activities directly related to content material experienced in the laboratory setting.

For more information contact Pat Dixon at pdixon@magnet.fsu.edu or (850) 644-4707.