Upcoming Events

Circus — June 4, 2011

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• Body text is always Verdana reg. 16 point

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• Body text is always Verdana reg. 16 point

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Maker Faire —September 17 and 18, 2011

Wild Minds—October 1, 2011

Teachers Tryscience NYSCI & IBM Collaborative Website for Design-Based STEM Learning

Teachers Tryscience

• Environmental engineering, design-based lessons for middle school

• Teacher-contributed lessons and materials

• Linked to standards

• Resources for design-based and inquiry-based teaching and learning

• Groups for teacher collaboration, communication and sharing

COLLABORATE: Web 2.0

TEACH: Environmental Engineering Lesson Plans

Biomimicry Lesson Plan

Grow: Teaching Resources

Grow: Biomimicry Tutorial

Big Idea

• Recently discovered (shared) cognitive abilities that have evolved in non-human animals show the connections between us.

• These include:

> concept formation

> representation of space, time and number

> numbers and pattern recognition

> tool use

> building and making

> communication

> self-awareness, self-abstraction, empathy and deception

> creativity and play.

Wild Minds —What Animals Really Think

• It is a 1,600 sq ft traveling exhibition which opens in New York in October, 2011

• Partners in the projects and future venues include:> Oregon Zoo and Oregon Museum of Science and Industry

> Columbus Zoo and Columbus Center of Science and Industry

> Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo and Science Central

> Santa Barbara Zoo and California Science Center

> and our partner is the Staten Island Zoo

• The science center partner will host the traveling exhibition and will coordinate programs with the zoo. The zoo’s will have signage, talks, demonstrations and one exhibit about animal cognition.