The
Central Michigan GEMS Education Center
is dedicated to the improvement of math,
science, technology, and environmental
education teaching and learning K-16, and
to the associated generation and communication
of knowledge about science, math, technology,
and environmental education teaching and
learning.
The Center accomplishes its mission through
the active collaboration among science
educators, math educators, scientists,
and school-based colleagues.
Great Explorations in Math and Science
is an exemplary curriculum. Our network
of statewide math and science teacher leaders
are a key resource for education throughout
the state of Michigan.
Check out our tentative Spring 2012 Workshop Schedule:
Frog Math
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After reading the story "The Lost Button", students will enjoy free exploration of buttons, then sort and classify, and finally take part in a game of Guess the Sort. |
Friday, February 10
EHS 129
1:00-4:00 |
Group Solutions
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In groups of four, students participate in more than 50 highly involving, cooperative logic activities. This unit provides students with a valuable experience in working together. |
Friday, February 24
EHS 129
1:00-4:00 |
Mystery Festival
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This forensic science unit helps students to learn how to distinguish evidence from inference and conduct crime-lab investigations such as threads tests, powder tests, chromatography, and fingerprinting. |
Friday, March 23
EHS 129
1:00-4:00 |
Matter
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This science unit frocuses on the three basic states of matter - solid, liquid, and gas. The unit helps students generate definitions and understandings of the properties of the basic states of matter. |
Friday, April 6
EHS 129
1:00-4:00 |
Bubble Festival
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This unit uses 12 tabletop activities, including bubble shapes, bubble measurements, and bubble skeletons, to present exploratory lessons in math and science. |
Friday, April 20
EHS 129
1:00-4:00 |
VIEW PICTURES FROM PREVIOUS GEMS WORKSHOPS! Click Here
Take a look at our Spring 2012 Workshop Calander
Now order GEMS guides from our website and receive 20% off! click here
Click here to check out the previous workshops and conferences the GEMS Center has held since Spring 2006.
Glance at what other teachers are saying about GEMS! (CLICK HERE)
See which GEMS guides teachers in the Middle School and Elementary cohorts have used in their classrooms and their feedback! (CLICK HERE - middle school) or (CLICK HERE - elementary)
Review which GEMS guides Elementary and Middle School cohort teachers have used for Professional Development Presentations! (CLICK HERE)
CLICK HERE to check out how each of the GEMS guides correlate with the Michigan Science and Math Curriculum!
Click HERE to see pictures of Kepler: A Search for Habitable Planets Space Science Workshop for Teachers
Read feedback from our Summer 2009 Workshop: Advancing Teacher Leaders in Space Science Click here!
Look at pictures from our November 18-20, 2008 Professional Development Conference.
Click Here to take the GEMS ATLSS June 2009 Particpant Survey
CMU GEMS Education Center, EHS 134B 989-774-1710
Email: gems@cmich.edu |
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