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UT Professional Development Institute for Educators

Enhance teaching skills through inquiry, integration, and differentiation. Explore environmental science using active learning strategies and community resources. Interact with scientists and experience field studies at UT Gardens and McClung Museum. Sponsored by the University of Tennessee.

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UT Professional Development Institute for Educators

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  1. Inquiry, Integration, & Differentiation: A UT Professional Development Institute for Appalachian Educators 2005 Dr. Michael Bentley, PI College of Education, Health and Human Sciences Dr. Susan Hamilton, Co-PI College of Agricultural Science and Natural Resources

  2. Professional Development at UT ADDRESSING… • The Tennessee science framework • Integrating grade 4-8 curriculum through environmental science • Inquiry teaching • Differentiated instruction • Using community resources & technology

  3. and active learning strategies

  4. Environmental science in the Tennessee standards involves concepts from life and earth science The inquiry approach is both hands-on AND minds-on Using active learning strategies and differentiation can go hand-in-hand Integrated curriculum doesn’t just mean math and science, but in all areas Use of the outdoors and community resources in teaching can be enhanced by integrating appropriate technologies some details …

  5. The program addresses the Tennessee Curriculum Framework

  6. Field studies at theUT Gardens, McClung Museum,and the Great Smokey Mountain National Park • Interacting with scientists • Hearing about research that supports constructivist pedagogies • Experiencing particular strategies for environmental studies

  7. UT Gardens Established in 1983 by UT’s Department of Plant Sciences and Landscape Systems (now the Department of Plant Sciences)

  8. UT Gardenshttp://utgardens.tennessee.edu/

  9. UT Gardens is a site for both horticultural research and environmental education

  10. Our visit to UT Gardens 6-15-05

  11. Blindfold activity, sometimes called a ‘non-sense walk’ or a ‘trust walk’

  12. Dr Susan Hamilton orients class to UT Gardens

  13. Moon Garden

  14. Luke Moon Garden

  15. Moon Garden Plant Sciences GAs Susan Conlon, speaking Emily Smith, far right

  16. Science process: Observing

  17. McClung Museum

  18. McClung Museum Debbie Woodiel, Asst. Director

  19. Model, reconstruction of prehistoric Cherokee Village, Tennessee

  20. Geology gallery

  21. 3000 year old Egyptian mummy

  22. Lucy replica Australopithecus afarensis ~ 3.8 million years old

  23. Exhibit on evolution

  24. Classphoto

  25. The 2005 IID Professional Development Institute is sponsored by The University of Tennessee with support from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission through the Improving Teacher Quality Program McClung Museum On the Web… http://web.utk.edu/~appalsci/

  26. Scott and Cocke County’s maps Inquiry, Integration, & Differentiation: A UT Professional Development Institute for Appalachian Educators

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