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Cincinnati Museum Center is committed to supporting our educators through unique and engaging professional development opportunities.

Early Childhood Science Inquiry Teacher Education (ECSITE)

Calling all early childhood educators! Encourage future scientists in your preschool classrooms with our ECSITE (Early Childhood Science Inquiry Teacher Education) Workshops! These workshops help early childhood educators create and implement inquiry-based science activities for their students. These workshops focus on “sciencing,” a teaching approach which incorporates science experiences into other content areas such as literacy and math. Participating educators acquire greater understanding of different approaches to teaching science and the skills students develop through science activities that will help them become successful learners.

Each workshop provides two hours of OH or KY Approved Professional Development hours (OCCRRA and ECE-TRIS).

ECSITE workshops are $20 per person, per program.

For more information concerning these workshop opportunities, please contact Valerie Horobik, Senior Director, School and Teacher Partnerships at (513) 455-7166 or vhorobik@cincymuseum.org.

Comparing Approaches to Hands-On Science

Children approach learning about science in different ways. Experience three approaches to teaching science that you can use to meet the needs of every student in your classroom.

Process Skills

Children young and old use the same process skills when learning science. Experience them in this hands-on workshop and learn how to incorporate them into your classroom, fostering your students' interest and success in science.

Raising Questions

Students discover science through questions grounded in their own curiosity. Discover ways to stimulate curiosity and elicit student questions that ultimately lead to investigations.

Science Experiments

In order to help learners develop the process skills needed for science exploration and inquiry, teachers gradually shift to giving learners more responsibility for using these skills in science activities. Practice making small shifts in existing activities to help learners strengthen the process skills needed for scientific inquiry.

Science Skills with Light and Shadows

Utilize the six science process skills through an inquiry-based investigation of light and shadows.