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The Northeast Informal Science Education Network (NISEN), a joint network of the Regional Alliance and the Museum Institute for Teaching Science (MITS, Inc.), recently invited informal educators to submit proposals for collaborative projects that would provide professional growth opportunities for classroom teachers and informal educators. The network is pleased to provide support to eight projects.
Project: The Coverboard Project- the Massachusetts Audubon Society Fifteen teachers will participate in an intensive, 40-hour summer institute that uses a "real-world" amphibian monitoring project to introduce inquiry-based curriculum planning. Project: The Montshire-SCEC Connection—Science Center of Eastern Connecticut (SCEC) and the Montshire Museum of Science, VT Staff of SCEC and the Montshire Museum will spend a day at Montshire exchanging program and exhibit ideas. Project: Nature on the Net-South Shore Natural Science Center (SSNSC), MA SSNSC is developing pre- and post-visit materials that teachers can access on the web. Project: Opening Channels Conference for the Connecticut River Education Initiative (CREI)—WGBY/TV, MA; Northfield Mount Hermon School, MA; and the Connecticut River Watershed Council On January 6, 2000, CREI partners held a one-day conference for more than sixty informal educators from the Connecticut watershed area, informing them of CREI's approach to providing professional development for K–12 teachers and inviting them to join and strengthen the CREI network. Project: People and the Northern Forest: Real World Teaching—Shelburne Farms, VT and the Northeast Natural Resource Center, VT Shelburne Farms and the Northeast Natural Resource Center will offer a unit of their professional development program "People and the Northern Forest: Real World Teaching" to teachers and informal educators from Vermont, upstate New York, New Hampshire, and Quebec. |
Project: Science Education Aboard Ships (SEAS): The New England Vessel-based
Science Education Consortium—the MIT Museum, MA; Schooner Sound Learning,
CT; the New England Aquarium, MA; and the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk,
CT
SEAS partners will convene a one-day vision meeting (February 24, 2000) for leaders of vessel-based, K-12 science education programs in order to form a sustainable networking collaborative. Project: A Two-Day Institute for Museum Professionals Preparing to Join the Virtual Visit Network—New York Hall of Science In the Summer of 2000, the New York Hall of Science will host a two-day conference for educators and staff from 10 informal science institutions, Participants will learn about the Hall's Virtual Visit program. Project: Working Together to Develop Environmental Leaders—Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS), and Forest Care, VT VINS and Forest Care will develop a new middle-grades unit for their Environmental Citizenship program. For more information about these and other NISEN activities, contact Molly Singsen at TERC, molly_singsen@terc.edu. |