Increasing Your Students’ Science Achievement Using the Internet, Active Learning, Project-Based and Performance Assessment Strategies (Grades 6-12)

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Learn a variety of new and innovative strategies for increasing your students’ motivation, meaningful engagement and achievement in every science lesson you teach. You’ll expand your repertoire of science teaching strategies that incorporate project-based learning, active learning strategies, cooperative learning, as well as the use of the Internet to enhance science learning.

You will learn how to:

  • Use the Internet to encourage student inventiveness and problem solving
  • Develop engaging, highly effective science lessons and activities
  • Teach so your students can better organize, integrate and retain science content and concepts
  • Learn performance assessment strategies
  • Align your current science program with the new National Science Education Standards

Master Teacher and Presenter

Jack Hassard is a dynamic, internationally known science educator with over 25 years of teaching experience. His workshops, known for their engaging and experiential character, are organized around a series of highly practical strategies and activities designed to help science teachers integrate the latest research on effective science teaching. Jack is the author of Science Experiences: Cooperative Learning and the Teaching of Science and Minds on Science: The Art of Teaching Middle and High School Science. He is the co-author of 13 books, including the very popular and classic science activity book, The Whole Cosmos Catalog of Science Activities.

“Seldom do I find a workshop tailored specifically to science, especially at the upper levels! This seminar presents many very specific, hands-on activities designed to get students involved more actively in the whole learning process.” - Jan Atkins, Science Teacher

Each audio program comes with its own comprehensive resource handbook specifically designed for that program, and includes countless "ready-to-use-tomorrow" ideas, lessons and resources you can immediately implement into your own classroom program.

Each individual audio program in U.S. funds costs $95.00 plus $9.00 shipping and handling.
Note: for orders shipped to a WA State address add 9.5% state sales tax.

Each individual audio program in Canadian funds costs $95.00 plus 12% shipping and handling.

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