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Come Celebrate the Exploratorium's 40th Anniversary with us!
With a handful of exhibits and a $50,000 grant from the San Francisco Foundation, the Exploratorium’s founder, Dr. Frank Oppenheimer, opened the doors of the museum in 1969 without any fanfare. In the forty years since, the museum has grown enormously, adding groundbreaking educational programs plus playful, thought-provoking exhibitions (on site and online), artworks, Webcasts, events, publications, and much more. We’re celebrating our past, present, and future at the museum and online.
For more information click here.
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 The Exploratorium Teacher Institute
(TI) has been a professional home for middle and high school science
teachers for over twenty years. (TI brochure in PDF)
The TI offers a rich mix of hands-on
activities based on Exploratorium exhibits, content-based discussions,
classroom materials, web-based teaching resources, and machine shop
experiences.
We offer Summer
Institutes and district-wide in-services for both new and
experienced teachers. Our growing family of alumni may also attend a
variety of Saturday workshops. All program participants are provided
with stipends for attending our institutes and workshops. |
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Are you interested in starting a program to mentor new teachers? Find out about the Teacher Institute's approach, which combines a program for beginning teachers with a leadership program that trains coaches and mentors.
Check out our Leadership
website. |
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 Enhance your knowledge
of science while learning how to bring
the Exploratorium's hands-on philosophy
of teaching into your classroom. For
more information, check out our New
Teacher Program webpage.
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The Teacher Institute currently has three podcast series for science teachers that will inform and entertain you.
Teacher Institute Teaching Tips
A series of almost 70 five-minute episodes that include activities, science history, pedagogy tips, and “first year” teaching stories.
TI’s Summer Institute
Hear about the Summer Institute experience from the directors of TI and from participating teachers.
SmallTalk
SmallTalk is a series of five episodes about nanotechnology featuring leading scientists, writers, and visionaries. Each episode is about 20–30 minutes long. |
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TI 25th party - February, 20, 2010
RSVP Here
If you are a TI alumnus and didn't receive an invitation in the mail, you can still rsvp by clicking on the link above. |
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The Classic Summer Institute
2010 application is online.
Click here for the webpage and information.
The dates for the Summer Institute 2010
are from June 21st to July 16th.
Updated Snackbook and Videos:
The Teacher Institute has an updated Snackbook!
This new edition includes updated activities plus several new snacks, illustrations, references, tips from teachers, and correlations to national science standards.
We are also uploading videos of some of our favorite Snacks.
For more information or to watch a video, click here!
Geometry Playground Pathways
The Exploratorium is developing a new
mathematics exhibition called Geometry
Playground. During each of the three
years of this project, we will be producing
one third of the exhibition. A set of
classroom activities, or Pathways, will
accompany each year’s exhibits.
The Pathways for Year One can be found
on the Exploratorium’s main Pathways
Website
The Pathways for Year Two are available
below.
Each Pathway contains activities to
do before, during, and after a field
trip to the Geometry Playground exhibit.
The Pathways are designed for three
different grade spans:
Kindergarten–Grade
2
Grade
3–Grade 5
Grade
6–Grade 8
Geometry Playground is funded by a
grant from the National Science Foundation.
Want to know more about the
Teacher Institute's Summer
Institute for educators?
Then listen to our podcasts! Whether
you're a teacher interested in applying
to our Classic Summer Institute or you've
already been accepted into it, you'll
find detailed descriptions of the summer
experience in these audio programs.
Full
Version: 26 minutes. 9.2 MB
"Lite"
Version: 11 minutes, 3.9 MB
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Find out
more about the staff at the Teacher Institute
and their interests. |
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 Our popular Science Snacks
provide instructions for building classroom versions of Exploratorium
exhibits. |
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