Bring out the inner scientist in your students and yourself with this course, which includes a wide range of easy-to-do scientific experiments and activities. Using familiar, easily obtainable materials and simple hands-on exercises that illustrate scientific principles, you can learn to make science both accessible and intriguing to children of any age. Some areas covered include: using your senses as scientific tools, science in the air, approaching art and cooking as science, studying living things, and additional adventures in chemistry, physics, electricity, and magnets.
Leonisa Ardizzone, EDd, has been a science educator for more than 20 years. She is currently the President and Founder of
Storefront Science, a science-based program and playspace in Upper Manhattan. She started her career as a middle and high school science teacher and was an assistant professor at Adelphi University and Fordham University. From 2006 – 2011, she served as the Executive Director of the Salvadori Center. Under her leadership, the Center became one of the leading math and science organizations in New York City public schools. Dr. Ardizzone has numerous education publications to her credit, including the book
Getting My Word Out: Voices of Urban Youth Activists (SUNY press, 2007). Dr. Ardizzone earned her EdD from Teachers College, Columbia, and her MEd in Secondary Science Education from Western Washington University. Her BA is in Biology from Ithaca College, NY.
May 4 and 5
Friday, 5:15 - 9 pm
Saturday, 9:30 am-5 pm
1 CEU $395 / 1 credit $1,240
Materials fee $15
Registration Deadline 4/27
