In November, 2005 Jill Granger and Colleagues from Sweet Briar College gave a hands-on workshop at the Virginia Association of Science Teachers Meeting.
The workshop focus was to introduce elementary teacher to the Inquiry Approach to teaching science.

Fortunately, but unfortunately, our workshop was VERY well attended and we ran out of our handouts.

Resources for the workshop came from:
The American Chemical Society, Kids and Chemistry program
and the
Full-Option Science System, from the Lawerence Hall of Science

Click here for a copy of our handouts... All should download in Word, unless otherwise noted.

M&M Investigations
Water in Earth Materials
Swingers -- note: downloads in Powerpoint
Shark Attack -- note: Shark Attack was presented at the 2003 VAST workshop in a different suite of investigations. I went ahead and loaded up all of these 2003 investigations. Shark Attack is the second one.

If you are unable to download these documents, please contact Pam Simpson, our SCHEV-NCLB grant assistant and give her your name, school, grade, and mailing address. Please be specific about which handout you need.