Virtual Visits with the New York Hall of Science

Do you want to learn how to integrate brain science into your curriculum, innovate your lesson plans, and motivate your students for FREE? The New York Hall of Science invites you to participate in the Dana Brain Science Educator Series and become a Dana Fellow. Upon completion of the program, each Dana Fellow will be awarded a stipend of $300.

This year, the series will be entirely online, providing a great opportunity for educators from across the nation to learn and collaborate. We will be highlighting the “Best of the Dana Brain Science Educator Series” with six sessions that combine the most popular activities and materials from past years. Sessions will focus on exciting topics like brain damage and disease, memory, and the five senses with the underlying theme of learning, tying all the sessions together.

Using the course management system Moodle, each session will allow participants to access video lectures from experts in the field, readings, and classroom-based investigations as well as participate in moderated discussions with fellow educators. Additionally, all Dana Fellows will be required to create and submit a unit on the brain that consists of at least six lessons.

The series is open to K-8 educators throughout the country and participation is limited to 20 teachers, so apply now! To apply, please follow the link below and fill out the online application. The deadline for applications is December 1, 2009.

For more information please contact Michaela Labriole at mlabriole@nysci.org or 718.699.0005, ext. 569.

The dates for the synchronous sessions are January 9^th, 23^rd, February 6^th 27^th, March 13^th and 27^th. Sessions will be held from 3-6pm EST (12-3pm PST).

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This October is Catapult month at NYSCI. Our exhibit team has been working day and night to design and build a trebuchet, which is a type of catapult. There are so many teams working on this project that Digital Learning thought it would be best to create a series of video packages highlighting each departments hard work. The first installment has officially been release and can be viewed on our new website or clicking the picture down below.

Everyone here in the museum is excited about this month long event that will feature a Catapult demonstration, pumpkin tossing, and so much more. Stay tuned for our next installment!

The New York Hall of Science is very proud to announce that as of yesterday September 21st, 2009, we officially launched our new website with a completely fresh new look. A team of employees representing different departments in our museum have been working tremendously hard on revamping our website. The final product is now available for everyone to see at www.nysci.org.

We have received some feedback in the past on our old website where it was a bit difficult to find our Virtual Visit programs but, now all our programs is just a few clicks away. Once you are on the main page click Learn>Education Programs>Virtual Visits. Here you can view VV descriptions and footage. We hope you enjoy the new site and any feedback would be appreciated.