Math and Science Education Activites Inventory
Iowa Department of Education and Board of Regent Universities
2007
Program(s) at UNI MUSEUMS
| Title |
Description |
Funding
Source |
Partner
Institutions |
Director
Name |
| General Science Programs |
The UNI Museums offer a number of science-based programs to area educators and school groups free of charge. The programs last between 30 and 90 minutes, depending on the age group. The programs include lecture, student participation, and hands-on learning, and are designed to enhance what students have learned about the topic at school. Science programs currently offered by the UNI Museums include: "Bird Ballet", "Dino Stomp", "Ugly Bug Ball", "Animals, Animals, Animals", "Nature Detectives", "Dinosaur Clues", "The Giving Tree", "Rock Identification Tests", and "Ocean Invertebrates".
Project Status: Current |
education budget--UNI Museums |
None |
Diane Schupbach
Education Coordinator
UNI Museums
(319) 273-3276
|
| M.E.S.S. (Museum Explorations through Science and Stories) |
M.E.S.S. is a monthly science-and-story based program offered free of charge to area daycare and preschool facilities by the UNI Museums. Free books for each classroom are provided monthly by Child Care Resource and Referral. Children explore a science topic, add five words to their vocabularies, listen to books and stories, complete a project, and explore the Museum during their visit. New this year are activity boxes ("M.E.S.S. Kits"). Also available free of charge to the centers, they are designed to help teachers expand what was taught at the Museum, once back at in their classrooms.
Project Status: Current |
education budget--UNI Museums , literacy grants--Child Care Resource & Referral |
Child Care Resource & Referral (Becky Elson) |
Diane Schupbach
Education Coordinator
UNI Museums
(319)2 73-3276
|
| UNI Museums Traveling Trunks |
The UNI Museums offer a number of "Traveling Trunks" to area educators free of charge. The trunks include touchable specimens and other items, activities, background information, books, and other resources. They are designed to supplement what is being taught in the classroom, and the hands-on aspect helps to bring science to life. Science-based trunks include: "Ugly Bug Box", "Rock Box I"(Rocks and Fossils),
"Rock Box II" (Rock Identification Tests),
"Mineral Mystery Box", "Bird Box: Feet, Feathers, Bones and Beaks", "Bird Box: Display box", "Dinosaurs 101","Tree Trunk".
Project Status: Current |
education budget--UNI Museums , various grants |
|
Diane Schupbach
Education Coordinator
UNI Museums
(319) 273-3276
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