Professional Development Workshops
two teachers clowning around with Snack Tectonics activity

In addition to our more intensive Peabody Fellows programs, the Yale Peabody Museum occasionally runs or hosts half-day or full-day workshops for educators on a variety of topics. If you are interested in arranging a professional development workshop for your staff, please contact us to discuss your ideas and determine whether or not we can meet your needs.

 

 

Upcoming Workshops:

 

NASA Galileo Educator Network Teacher Workshop

Monday, July 15 and Tuesday, July 16, 2013

9:00 am to 3:00 pm (attendance on both days is required)

Location: Leitner Family Planetarium at Yale University

355 Prospect Avenue, New Haven

 

Lead Instructor: Christopher Stone, NASA Galileo Educator

 

Become a NASA Galileo Educator through this 15 hour professional development opportunity for educators. This NASA Galileo Educator Network workshop will emphasize Next Generation Science Standards, space science content with NASA resources and astronomy based investigations through the Universe at Your Fingertips. Special emphasis will also be placed on utilizing science notebooks, instructional strategies, and specific fifth grade standards addressing the Sun-Moon-Earth relationship. This workshop is open to teachers in Grades 3 through 5.

 

For complete details and link to the online application, CLICK HERE.

 

 

Strength in Numbers: How to Use Museum Specimen Data in the Classroom

A summer workshop for High School educators

Tuesday, July 16 and Wednesday, July 17, 2013

From 8:30 am to 3:30 pm

 

Understanding the sources of variation within, and between, species is a fundamental concept of evolutionary biology, since variation is a necessary prerequisite for evolution by natural selection. Museum collections, with their large depth and breadth, can provide a unique resource for investigating this variation. In this two-day workshop for High School educators, learn about available datasets and image banks, and how to best make use of them in a classroom setting to teach evolutionary principles. In addition, this workshop will demonstrate that the biological "backyard" is available as a classroom, whereby students and teachers can make measurements and observations on easily obtained specimens.

 

For complete details and link to the online application, CLICK HERE

 

 

Past Workshops:

2012

Climate Change (linked to Seasons of Change exhibition)

Big Food (linked to exhibition)

A Collaborative 21st Century Approach to Implementing the Current Science Curriculum

 

2011

World Wide Waldens

 

2010

Coffee (linked to exhibition)

Monarch Teacher Network

Black Holes (linked to exhibition)

 

2009

Disease Detectives (linked to exhibition)

Teaching Ancient Egypt

America in Iraq: An Archaeological Perspective

 

2007

Alien Earths (linked to exhibition)