Students Discover: Citizen Science Summer Teacher Institute
Grade Level(s): 6-8
Date(s): June 26-27, 2017
Location: NC State and NC Museum of Natural Sciences
Cost: Free (Institute includes meals, lodging and a stipend of $120/day)
Description: Join us to learn how to bring citizen science to your NC Middle School classroom! Citizen science provides students the opportunity to be engaged in real, authentic scientific research. Come learn about citizen science projects designed by NC Kenan Fellows as well as other citizen science projects to meet your curriculum goals. The Institute includes meals, lodging and a stipend of $120/day.
The goal of Students Discover is to have scientists and teachers collaborate to develop citizen science projects and related curriculum modules in order to engage students in real, authenticscience. Learn more about the Students Discover project at studentsdiscover.org.
Contact(s): Jason Painter (jlpainte@ncsu.edu)
Application Deadline: March 23, 2017