Teachers - Make plans now to attend one of OMSI's exciting professional development workshops this summer. OMSI's Summer Science Institute stimulates your creativity so that you're ready to plan the best school year ever for your students. A variety of options makes it easier to fit this professional opportunity into your summer schedule. You can register for any or all of the workshop: Mindbender Mansion, as well as favorites like No Hassle Messy Science with a WOW! Take yourself to camp at the Oregon coast with our Aquatic Field Study Weekend, the perfect tie-in to Expedition Northwest. As always, OMSI helps expand your resources with access to our world-class science labs and Science Educator Resource Center (SERC).

Check out our Summer Institute for Teachers program!

OMSI's newest curriculum, Expedition Northwest, links teachers, students and scientists throughout the Pacific Northwest by providing exciting standards-based science activities for the 4th-8th grade classroom. The thematic framework of this program focuses on water and how it connects landscapes, people and ecosystems across the region...from glaciers to rivers to oceans; from ancient floods to power generation.

Learn more about this exciting program!

Graduate credit may be available through Oregon State University. Please contact us for details.

Experience affordable, inquiry-based, and standards-aligned activities from the 460 page manual of the same name. Instructions for teachers include: complete set-up instructions, scientific explanation for various age levels, extensions to broaden understanding, and student handouts in English and Spanish. The workshop includes the manual No Hassle Messy Science with a Wow: Chemistry in the K - 8 Classroom. You can see a preview of the book at the website.

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