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Professional Development Workshop for Teachers, Grades 5-10

      • August 14-18, 2011, plus a follow-up meeting in the fall
      • Held at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center in Fort Worden State Park
      • $200 includes instruction, room and board at Fort Worden Conference Center
      • 3 graduate credits or 30 clock hours available through Seattle Pacific University

Why Inquiry?
Most science teachers are familiar with inquiry as the process used by scientists to investigate scientific questions. In Washington State, understanding inquiry is an Essential Learning Requirement in science education at all grade levels. But inquiry is also a way of teaching and learning.

Inquiry is a creative process. It takes ingenuity, curiosity and imagination along with logic and patience to be a scientist. When students explore things they don't understand the way scientists do, they discover the fun, challenge, and sense of accomplishment that motivates scientist--along with a deeper understanding of what they're investigating.

Approaches to Inquiry is based on methods and curriculum developed at the Exploratorium in San Francisco and activities from the Port Townsend Marine Science Center.

Comments from workshop participants:

"The inquiry class was AWESOME!... I've been puzzled by this teaching method called inquiry for a long time, because no one has done a good job teaching it to me yet, and I've had plenty of classes on it. I will recommend this class to everyone Iknow, and I might come back again next year!
---2009 participant

"I just wanted you to know I've had an amazing semester with inquiry. I really felt my students got a deeper understanding of concepts than they did before with the unshifted labs"
---2009 participant, 6 months after attending workhshop

For more information, or to register

download the following documents:
Workshop Flyer (in pdf)
Course Syllabus (pdf) or Course Syllabus (in Word)
Workshop Application (in Word)

Or call us at 360-385-5582, 800-566-3932.