Teacher Institute on Science and Sustainability
Each year, a cohort of 30 teachers begin this two-year professional development program for 3rd–5th grade teachers.
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Watch an upper elementary school teacher from the Academy's Teacher Institute on Science and Sustainability allow her students to plan their own investigation and direct their own learning.
How can you elicit explanations of scientific phenomena from your students? Here's an example video.
Allow your students to think through the design of an investigation, and learn from their plan.
In this video, an educator gives her class the freedom to design the graph that works best for their data.
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Research in the Classroom
From 2013-2015, the Academy's Teacher Institute partnered with Stanford's SCALE program and SRI International to complete a Discovery Research K-12 project sponsored by the National Science Foundation.