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Up-to-date topics for informal educators

Seminar 1:  Creating Inquiry Activities

January 12, 2006
Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center
Mattapan, MA 02126

Presenter: Bart Lee, Education Consultant
Summary: Explore new ways of developing integrated, inquiry-based, hands-on
activities for your institution. Learn the importance of standardization in
measurement by establishing, testing, and comparing standards. Activities
will also include an integrated approach to cultural nations and trade. 

Seminar 2: CSI: Cycles, Systems, & Inquiry
            Evaluations

February 9
EcoTarium 
Worcester, MA

Presenters: Louise Preissler, Mass Audubon Society, Kathy Mullin,
OceanQuest, Inc., and additional presenters
Summary:  
1. CSI: Cycles, Systems, & Inquiry: Do you want to learn how to better
distinguish the three levels of inquiry and how to improve your
implementation of them in your teaching? This seminar explores the different
types of inquiry through hands-on activities that focus on the cycles and
systems of the world we live in.  
2. Evaluations: Learn how to build logic models for your institution and how
to use the logic model to develop an evaluation. Explore the materials and
activities you can use to develop the pre and post. Learn about additional
tools available to assist you in the set-up and implementation of
evaluations. 

Seminar 3: Disability Awareness- Including People with Disabilities in
Educational Programs

March 9
Dunn Pond State Park
Gardner, MA 

Presenter: Marcy Marchello, Universal Access Program Coordinator,
Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.
Summary: Explore techniques to better serve people with wide ranging
disabilities in educational settings with an emphasis on physical and
cognitive disabilities. Learn about disability etiquette, simple
communication techniques, interpretive strategies, technological options,
and available resources in a day that includes experiential opportunities
indoors and out. 

For complete information please go to: www.mits.org/pds.htm or call
617-695-9771.

 

 


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