Sanilac County Science and Math Center

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Sanilac County Science and Math Center

• Brown City
• Carsonville-Port Sanilac
• Croswell-Lexington
• Deckerville
• Marlette
• Peck
• Sandusky

• . Serving
• 8800 Students500 Teachers
• in these local districts...

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Our Mission

• The mission of the Sanilac County Science
  and Mathematics Center is to provide leadership,
  programs, and services to improve interest,
  involvement, and achievement in mathematics,
  science and technology.

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Our Demographics

• DEMOGRAPHICS
• The SCSMC is located in a 1,000 square mile area
  in the Thumb of Michigan. Sanilac County is
  geographically the largest county in the lower
  peninsula.
• The SCSMC is a member of the Michigan
  Mathematics and Science Centers Network and the
  National Consortium for Specialized Secondary
  Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology.

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Our Services

• Leadership
• Student Services
• Professional Development
• Curriculum Support
• Resource Clearinghouse
• Community Involvement

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LEADERSHIP

• Great schools are built by people, people who
  care and who actThe secret ingredient is human,
  not electronic.
• America 2000

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Leadership

• Edited and distributed ABC in Science News
• Science Specialist assisted Croswell-Lexington
  Schools with Technology Literacy Challenge Grant
• Science Instructor served on Regional Directors
  Executive Council for National Junior Science and
  Humanities Symposium
• Science Specialist served on Blue Water
  Curriculum Council
• Director served on SISD Strategic Planning
  Steering Committee
• Director and Science Specialist served on Staff
  Development Action Team

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Student Services

• The yardstick is whether studentscan
  understand as well as memorize, apply as well
  as state, imagine as well as copy, solve
  problems ratherthan shrug them off, and make
  themselves felt in a society that seems to be in
  trouble for lack of these capacities.
• Harriet Tyson
  Science Education Guidebook

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Student Service

• ABC in Science K-7 Inquiry-based Kit Program
  provided 545 hands-on science kits to elementary
  classrooms and offered a Science Specialist who
  taught 140 active lessons for
• Kindergarten Giant Pumpkin Visit
• First Grade Giant Teeter-Totter Visit
• Second Grade Papermaking Visit
• Third Grade Ice Cream Making Visit
• Fourth Grade Groundwater Visit
• Fifth Grade Matter Visit

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• Doing experiments helps me to remember and
  teaches me to figure out problems.
  3rd Grade Student

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Student Services

• High School Accelerated Program
• Astronomy Night
• Science/Math Expo with 67 student research
  projects
• E.A.R.T.H. Center Mammalian Study
• E.A.R.T.H. Center Fish and Related Aquatic Life
  Project
• Southeastern Michigan Junior Science and
  Humanities Symposium, Wayne State University
• Detroit Medical Center Field Trip
• NASA Symposium, SanDiego, CA
• Science/Math Recognition Night

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Professional Development

• You cant have a learning society without
  learning students, and you cant have learning
  students without learning teachers. Fullan
  (1993)

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Professional Development

• Conducted ABC in Science workshops
• New Teacher kit workshops
• Preparing for Science MEAP Investigations
• Unit Revision Workshops
• Provided workshops for Sanilac County educators
  and community environmental educators
• Science Teacher Leader Program
• Websites for Teachers
• Instructional Technology
• Rockets for Schools

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Curriculum Support

• Curriculum planning must be an integral part of
  the continuous school improvement process.
• Science Education Guidebook

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Curriculum Support

• Sanilac ISD Science Specialist and
  Croswell-Lexington Schools revised ABC in Science
  kits
• Kindergarten Animals
• First Grade Measurement, Force, and Simple
  Machines
• Second Grade Sound and Light
• Third Grade Motions, Forces, and Simple Machines
• Fourth Grade Detective Moolock (Energy Unit)
• Support of MASER regional curriculum team
• Support of Curriculum Mapping Process

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Resource Clearinghouse

• If you want to encourage elementary school
  teachers to teach science through inquiry, you
  have to provide them with the right stuff at the
  right time. You have to give teachers a deal
  they cant refuse.
• Larry Small, Science Materials Support
  (1992)

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Resource Clearing House

• Expanded curriculum materials enhance ABC in
  Science kits
• Provide science kits to support inquiry-based
  science in grades K-7
• Monitor ABC in Science kit distribution center to
  store, refurbish and distribute science kits.

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COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Parents, other community members,
  administrators, students and teachers all need to
  work together toward a common vision of
  scientific literacy.
• Science Education Guidebook

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Community Involvement

• Lake Huron Water Quality Study
• Conducted by SCSMC students in high school
  accelerated program and submitted to DNR
• Showcase Night
• Astronomy Night
• Science/Math EXPO Night

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