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Focus on Grades 1 through 4 Date: February 23 or March 9, 2010 Location: Pennsylvania Department of Education Honors Suite, 1st Floor 333 Market Street, 8th Floor, Harrisburg, PA 17126 Registration 7:30-8:00 Starting/End Times: 8:00 AM — 4:00 PM BOTH WORKSHOPS ARE FILLED PLEASE CHECK BACK OVER THE SUMMER FOR A FALL WORKSHOP |
A new professional development workshop for teachers of grades 1st through 4th is being offered through the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s Office of Environment and Ecology. The workshop will cover living and nonliving systems (habitat, simple ecosystems, soil, etc.) adaptation, change over time, and real vs. make-believe. The workshop will connect non-fiction reading books, manipulatives, integration techniques, and hands-on inquiry based activities written for this program to address the environment and ecology standards and the Science, Technology and Environment and Ecology Assessment Anchors. Teachers will receive up to thirty non-fiction and 10 fiction reading books, puppets, two reading mats representing either the forest, pond or farm, a newly developed standards-based unit with lesson plans and activities. Participants will also receive the newly developed national early childhood activity guides for Project Learning Tree and Project Wild. In total each teacher will take back to his/her classroom over $600 worth of materials for their students.
PLEASE NOTE: WORKSHOPS ARE LIMITED TO TEACHERS, GRADES FIRST THROUGH FOURTH, IN IU15.