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Learning Opportunities 1996/1997, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy
Learning Opportunities 1996/1997, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy
Course Catalogs
MASTER LIST OF APPROVED COURSES - REVISED NOV 96
Everyday Life Is Full Of 'Science Moments' To Teach And Share With Children, Mary Bird, Herman Weller
Everyday Life Is Full Of 'Science Moments' To Teach And Share With Children, Mary Bird, Herman Weller
General University of Maine Publications
The routine business of getting back to school is the easy part. It's much more challenging to figure out how to support children's efforts to learn more about the world and their place in it, and to hone the new skills they are acquiring daily. Even if you have felt comfortable reading with your child or helping with math homework in the past, chances are that you, like the vast majority of American parents, feel stymied when it comes to science. So what can you do to broaden and deepen your child's learning of science? A lot, and you don't …
1: "To Know Ourselves", The U.S. Department Of Energy, The Human Genome Project
1: "To Know Ourselves", The U.S. Department Of Energy, The Human Genome Project
Genomics: Past & Future
AT THE END OF THE ROAD in Little Cottonwood Canyon, near Salt Lake City, Alta is a place of near-mythic renown among skiers. In time it may well assume similar status among molecular geneticists. In December 1984, a conference there, co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, pondered a single question: Does modern DNA research offer a way of detecting tiny genetic mutations—and, in particular, of observing any increase in the mutation rate among the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and their descendants? In short the answer was, Not yet. But in an atmosphere of rare intellectual fertility, …
Making History: Quarks, Neutrinos, And Virtual Perfection: Interviews With Robert W. Galvin And Leon M. Lederman, Timothy J. Gilfoyle
Making History: Quarks, Neutrinos, And Virtual Perfection: Interviews With Robert W. Galvin And Leon M. Lederman, Timothy J. Gilfoyle
Documents
In 1986, Leon Lederman helped establish the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, one of the nation's first residential secondary schools created specifically for gifted students in the sciences. "Kids hate to be different," Lederman recognizes, "and very bright kids know they're different when they're in normal schools, and they react to that differentness in many different ways. But here, they're all the same. They're all . . . academically gifted and work together and collaborate and . . . have excellent teachers. While the building was a hand-me-down from the overbuilding of schools in the early '70s, it works, and …
Reconnecting The Sciences, John Eggebrecht, Raymond Dagenais, Don Dosch, Norman J. Merczak, Margaret N. Park, Susan C. Styer, David Workman
Reconnecting The Sciences, John Eggebrecht, Raymond Dagenais, Don Dosch, Norman J. Merczak, Margaret N. Park, Susan C. Styer, David Workman
Faculty Publications & Research
During the last three years at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, we have been working on a partial reconstruction of Whitehead's "one subject matter," a course reconnecting biology, chemistry, earth and space sciences, and physics into an Integrated Science program.
1995-96 Annual Report, The Power Of An Idea, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy
1995-96 Annual Report, The Power Of An Idea, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy
Annual Reports
In this First Decade Report, we demonstrate how the power of ideas uniquely explored, interpreted and embodied in practice at IMSA, has inspired and empowered others to be agents of change in the transformation of mathematics and science teaching and learning within their own communities. During the past ten years, we have extended and enriched ideas such as Discovery-Based Learning, Integrative Learning, Apprentice Investigation, Institutional and Program-Based Research, Technology Integration in the Curriculum and Collaborative Inquiry. The embodiment of these ideas in our practice and in the practice of our educational partners throughout Illinois and the nation, benefits students at …
Imsa 1996 Profile, Office Of College And Academic Counseling
Imsa 1996 Profile, Office Of College And Academic Counseling
IMSA Profile
"IMSA offers advanced courses and other learning experiences in mathematics, science, the arts and the humanities, with an emphasis on connections within and among the disciplines. Students learn how to integrate content and skills, demonstrating broad knowledge of important concepts. This teaching approach focuses on the quality of understanding rather than the quantity of information."*
*Excerpt from the IMSA 1996 Profile