Professional Development
Forces That Change Us Teacher Enrichment Series
The Museum's Forces That Change Us lecture series, held on select Sundays, January through May, focuses on the intimate relationship between our bodies and the environment around us and within us. On the day of each lecture, teachers are invited join the speaker and several Genzyme employees for a pre-lecture lunch at noon. Following the 1:00 p.m. lecture, join Museum educators from our Human Body Connection exhibit and Suit/Cabot Lab to discuss related learning experiences. The afternoon concludes in our Educator Resource Center with a collegial discussion over coffee about classroom connections.
The lecture schedule is as follows. Choose "related offerings" to the right for more details, and apply by following the links below.
January 11: Light, Sleep, and Space with Laura Barger, PhD, associate physiologist, Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
February 8: Facial Recognition: The Creation of Expertise with Benjamin Balas, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School
March 8: A Matter of Taste with Dennis Drayna, PhD, chief, Systems Biology of Communication Disorders, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institutes of Health
April 5: Aging: Can You Turn Back the Clock? with Heidi Tissenbaum, PhD, associate professor, molecular medicine, gene function and expression programs, University of Massachusetts Medical School
May 3: The Ultimate Hitchhikers with David B. Schauer, PhD, professor of biological engineering and comparative medicine, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT
Middle and high school teachers interested in attending one or several of these teacher enrichment workshops are encouraged to apply by following the links below. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis for each of the five workshops. Selected teachers will be notified at least two weeks in advance of the program date.
Space is limited. We will make every effort to include as many applicants in the program as possible and will keep a waiting list. Interested teachers are encouraged to plan on attending lectures, regardless of the status of their application; the Forces That Change Us Lecture series is included with your free admission to the Museum of Science.
Supported with funding from Genzyme Corporation.
| Format | Workshop |
| Grades | 6 – 12 |
| Author | n/a |
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| Location | Educator Resource Center in the Lyman Library — Museum of Science, Boston |
| Website | n/a |
| Duration | 4 hours |
| Reservation | We are no longer accepting applications. |
| Fee | Free |
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Schedules
Remaining seats appear in parenthesis after event time.
January 11, 2009: 12:00 pm
February 8, 2009: 12:00 pm
March 8, 2009: 12:00 pm
April 5, 2009: 12:00 pm
May 3, 2009: 12:00 pm
Forces That Change Us Teacher Enrichment Series
List of Related Offerings
Exhibit
Pre-K - Adult
- Human Body Connection
- What is inside your body? What would it be like to live in a family of cotton-top tamarin monkeys? Do your genes affect the foods you like to eat? Explore the answers to these and many other questions in the Human Body Connection. Investigate human anatomy and physiology, the variations that exist within ... (details)
