President's report 3_16_11
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Transcript of President's report 3_16_11
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
• Please do not change color, font or style
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.