One of our amazing partner teachers from Watkins Elementary School in DCPS, Lauren Tate, has been honored with this Presidential Award! She has attended our Teacher Institute and participates in our long-term partnership program as well. She gives us a shout-out in her bio for the award. The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and [...]
We had a great time at Cesar Chavez Elementary School in Prince George’s County learning all about properties of water, water cycle, importance of water, water conservation, and human impacts on water. Project WET is a wonderful compilation of fantastic hands-on activities for kids to learn all about water. My favorite part of the workshop [...]
We had a great time exploring the Project WILD curriculum with teachers at Indian Head Elementary School in Charles County, Maryland. We learned activities we can use to teach our students about topics such as habitats, wildlife, adaptations, and the human impacts on these natural systems. Check out Alice Ferguson Foundation’s Facebook page for more [...]
At Accokeek Academy, the first graders explored the creek flowing in front of their school. No one knew the name of it, so the first group called it Foggy Creek, the second group called it Big Lake Creek. What great names! Students had learned about states of matter, so we predicted that the creek would [...]