Summer Science Camps in the ESU #5 Region
June 04, 2010
Summer Science camp is a great opportunity for both students and staff. ESU #5 Science teachers, Matt Gerber and Dave Henning are implementing science camps for the second consecutive summer. Last year two camps were offered in the ESU 5 region (one at the ESU and the second at Thayer Central Intermediate Building). Schools were assigned a camp location and were able to bring 8 identified gifted students to their camp. This year, that has been expanded on significantly. Each district was offered the opportunity to host their own camp for ANY student (each camp with the ability to serve 50-60 students). Many districts took advantage of that opportunity. All but 2 days in June will see students and teachers learning and taking part in inquiry based, hands on Science activities.
How do students and teachers benefit from this? Students have the opportunity to participate in outstanding, educational activities. They are creating, engineering and problem solving as they learn science content throughout each of the rotations within the 2 day camps. Teachers are getting to learn about new science opportunities that they can implement in their classrooms in the fall. They are also seeing a great model of what best practice in science instruction should look like so that they may mirror that model as well within their own classrooms. Most importantly of all – both students and teachers have the opportunity to see that science is fun!!!
