Summer Statewide Institutes for Teaching Excellence

NC-MSEN SITE 3-5 Science

October 16 and 17, 2009
March 19 & 20, 2010

Location: COED 036
(6.0 units of license renewal credit (nine days of instruction and an implementation project)

This 9-day institute (five days in the summer and four days during the 08-09 school year.) will focus on the four major science themes that cut across the NC Science Standard Course of Study for Grades 3-5. It will emphasize science content, and it will also model science pedagogy. In addition, emphasis will be placed on the authentic integration of literacy, mathematics, and technology. Assessment in science and managing science materials also will be included in this institute. The institute themes include: Rock Cycle (soil properties, composition/uses of rocks and minerals, & landforms); Ecology (plant growth and adaptations, animal behavior and adaptations, & interdependence of plants and animals); Energy/Forces (light, heat, magnetism and electricity, & forces and motion); Weather and Climate (wind direction & speed, precipitation, cloud cover, air pressure, weather patterns, influence of geography on weather).


Instructor: Judy McDonald
Target: 3 - 5 Grade Teachers