On-Line Science Courses for Teachers
 
 

This page is established as a link for Vermont teachers who are looking for SCIENCE professional development courses delivered on-line.

We will update options as we learn about them and hope you find this resource helpful. Our VSTA Newsletter, Cassie Major--editor, typically includes such information as it is called to her attention.

Here is what we have in our initial posting on June 13, 2002:

Home-grown (Vermont) opportunities:

 Three 15-week web-based courses will run from September 9-December 20, 2002:
    1. Physical Science:Keeping Afloat with Chemistry (Brian Reid and


      2. Kathy Renfrew)

    2. Earth Science:Exploring the Interactions of Weather, Water and Land


      3. (Paul Bierman and Meredith Wade)

    3. Life Science: Doing What Comes Naturally (Teresa Robinson and
Judy Rosovsky) Register online at http://www.vismt.org/vsec/online.html before August 5. The NSTA Institute * The National Science Teachers Association actively collaboraes with higher

education to offer courses. Their homepage for such offerings is:

http://ecommerce.nsta.org/institute

 NSTA has worked for some time with Montana State University (Boseman). Called the National Teachers Enhancement Network (NTEN) you can reach it at: https://btc.montana.edu/nten/secure/register.taf.

An affiliation with The University of Maryland's College of Life Sciences has recently been added. Reach them at www.e-learning.umd.edu/old_index.html

And finally, Jason lives in the form of the Jason Academy with 10 courses for teachers on topics such as energy, earth structure, oceans, electricity and magnetism, aquatic ecology. Access them at http://www.jason.org/academy/store

Rma/Jm 6/13/02