Science Explorers, an outreach program affiliated with CU-Boulder's Science Discovery Program, is offering a workshop Feb. 1 at the Colorado State Fairgrounds called "Water: From Ice Caps to Water Taps."
The workshop is one of several being offered by the Science Discovery Program to help promote learning among teachers as well as students.
Sponsored by the South Central Board of Cooperative Educational Services and the CU President's Office, the workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is open to students and teachers from Pueblo Area schools.
Science Explorers is a statewide science enrichment program for 5th through 8th grade teachers and teams of selected students. Twenty-one teams, each comprised of a teacher and five students, rotate through three workshops designed for an integrated topic.
The workshops offered this year include glaciers, stream biology and hydrology and watersheds.
The program is unique because the teachers and students work side-by-side in the workshop, said Lannie Hagan, coordinator of Science Explorers. The teacher has the opportunity to observe the students' responses to the material and find out if it will be successful in the classroom, while the students are given the opportunity to develop their own knowledge and leadership skills, Hagan said.
In 2000 and 2001, Science Explorers presented programs in 30 locations to 550 teachers and 2,750 students. The curriculum reached more than 11,000 students in the teachers' and students' home schools, Hagan said.
Science Explorers has been offering workshops throughout Colorado for 15 years.
For more information about Science Explorers workshops, call (303) 492-0771.