CityScience: Inspire Exploration

CityScience supports teachers who want to make science more relevant and exciting for their students with hands-on, real-world explorations and experiments. To help teachers bring science to life, we provide a range of resources and teaching techniques that make implementing active, place-based lessons simple and rewarding.   

Training is available for early childhood, elementary, middle school, and after-school youth engagement professionals.

• Professional Development is offered in half or full-day workshops in which teachers experience CityScience’s hands-on methodology. Teachers are provided with the tools for planning and implementing active lesson plans.
• The Summer Institute is a two-day training in creating and teaching lesson plans that use the local urban and build environment as a catalyst for interdisciplinary learning. Teachers rehearse new experiments and leave the Institute equipped with new lesson plans ready for classroom use.
• On-Site Coaching supports classroom teachers with technical assistance, model programs, and collegial feedback. Working collaboratively with CityScience, teachers identify opportunities to write standards- and place-based lesson plans specific to their schoolyards, neighborhoods, and local resources.  CityScience coaches empower teachers to improve instruction through observation, lesson planning, interdisciplinary projects, and goal setting.


All of CityScience’s teacher training programs equip teachers with the skills, resources, and confidence to teach Regents standards in memorable and meaningful ways. We believe that applied learning opportunities enable students to grasp science content more quickly and develop critical thinking skills that will serve them throughout their education and lives. 

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