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Wade Institute for Science Education

2021 Professional Development Institutes

 

Our Climate, Our Communities: Science, Systems, and Solutions

Remote Professional Development Institute for Grades 6-12 Educators

Full course dates: February 21 - May 23, 2021

 

How can you prepare your students to engage with the complex concepts and rapidly developing issues related to climate change? Connect with climate change experts and resources during this hybrid institute! Participate in live virtual sessions combined with asynchronous online learning to engage in climate and energy investigations, talk directly with scientists and engineers, explore your own local resources, and develop units and investigations you can use in your socially distanced or remote classroom. Leave the course with tools and resources for integrating climate change concepts into your instruction and the confidence to engage your students in active discussion, sense-making, and problem solving around challenging and dynamic topics of climate change.  

Guest Speakers include:

Bob Chen, PhD, Professor and Interim Dean of School for the Environment, UMass Boston

Emily Flaherty, Ocean Literacy Educator & School to Sea Director, Salem Sound Coastwatch

Gene Fry, PhD, Global Warming & Energy Efficiency Consultant

Jane Heinze-Fry, PhD, Climate Change Educator & Special Projects Director, Wade Institute for Science Education

Richard Rys, Principal, R2 Controls

Dan Kittredge, Executive Director, Bionutrient Food Association

Tamara Ledley, PhD, President, Earth Science Information Partners

Lorena Estrada-Martinez, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Public Health, UMASS Boston

Carolyn Meklenburg, Greater Boston Regional Coordinator, Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program, MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs

Trevor Lloyd-Evans, Director, Landbird Conservation/Growing Knowledge, Manomet

Gabi Serrato Marks, PhD, Freelance science writer

Making Place-Based Learning Phenomenal

Remote Professional Development Institute for Grades 4-12 Educators

Full course dates: February 26 – May 2, 2021

 

How can you tap students’ natural curiosity to engage them in science? Inspire them to investigate their world by using place-based learning practices! Whether remotely or in the socially distanced classroom, blending phenomena with place-based learning allows you to leverage student curiosity and life experiences as they investigate questions and problems right in their own communities. Join us and our partners for a remote Professional Development Institute that will prove inquiry-based science learning can be phenomenal! 

Collaborating partners: Manomet and Atlantic White Shark Conservancy

Professional Development Institutes will be offered remotely and will include a materials kit designed for the inquiry-based, hands-on investigations during the course. Learn more and register online at https://www.wadeinstitutema.org/academic-year-professional-development-institutes.