Gifted Resource Council
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Equipping Teachers for Engaging, Hands-on Science Lessons

In keeping with its broader mission of positively impacting the education of gifted students throughout the metro area, GRC has initiated a series of workshops to prepare teachers who have been trained as generalists to creatively engage students in "hands-on, minds-on" science lessons that will stimulate as well as inform. This program for teachers of pre-K through elementary students combines discussions on methods and curricula with opportunities to engage in observation and live teaching under the supervision of a master science teacher at GRC's Saturday Learning Labs.

Dennis Grzenczyk shares his experience – and success – using items readily available to make science active and fun for learners. Grzenczyk first taught a Learning Lab class for GRC in the Winter of 1999 - and he has taught a class in every session of our Learning Labs since! That same summer, 11 years ago, he taught his first Summer Academy, and for years his Math Marvels & More and Space Academy classes have been perennial favorites. One of his earliest classes was entitled "Science: A Playground for the Mind", and any parent of a child who has taken a Grzenczyk-taught class knows how indicative this title is to his approach.

The workshop is designed for teachers looking for practical high-interest, low-cost science lessons. Curricular topics include force and motion, gravity, light, relativity, the physics of flight, simple machines, sensory perception, the solar system and states of matter. Participants are guaranteed to leave with curricular ideas and actual experiments to take back to their classes. When you finish this program, you should never need to buy an official science kit again!

Tuition is only $95, and three full scholarships are available. For more information about "Teachers Turn On to Hands-on Science" beginning in January 2010, call 314-962-5920. Call now. Class is limited to 20 teachers.
For more information regarding Gifted Resource Council, please call the GRC office at 314-962-5920.