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Educator Workshop: Science-Investigations (Sci-I) Project

Valley with helicopter and shelter
June 25 - June 30, 2017
12:00 am - 12:00 am
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, 1090 Carmack Road, Columbus, OH 43210

Sci-I Project

Help your students conduct open-ended investigations using real polar data!

★ Build a network with other teachers, scientists and students from around your area and across the nation.

★ Interact face-to-face with professional polar scientists.

★ Work with scientists to infuse the process of science into the classroom.

★ Use real world data from polar scientists.

★Be a part of an interdisciplinary project that easily blends into any class.

★ Provide students with the opportunity to present research on a college campus through a research symposium.

★ Meet standards including NGSS, Common Core Math and ELA.

★ Promote your school and strengthen student connections to science.

Sci-I Project Details

Who? Pairs of science teachers (grades 6-9) from the same school in the greater St. Louis, MO or Columbus, OH areas may apply.

What is involved? Summer Educator Workshop (June 25-30, 2017, Columbus, OH), student-lead investigations (Fall 2017-Winter 2018), and Student Polar Research Symposia hosted at Washington University in St. Louis and Ohio State University (Spring 2018).

Teachers will receive a stipend for full participation in the project. If applicable, transportation and accommodation costs for the Summer Educator Workshop will be provided.

For additional information:

Contact Kristin Hunter-Thomson at hunterthomson@marine.rutgers.edu or 848.932.3281 OR visit http://polar-ice.org

Application: http://tinyurl.com/sci-i-17-18-application

Application deadline: March 15, 2017

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