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Programs

9th Annual AMNH College Fair

NYC high school students are invited to explore their future!

Adventures in Science

Weeklong science immersions for children in grades preK - 8.

After-School Program

Courses for NYC high school students looking for museum career opportunities.

AMNH Lang Science Program

Hands-on exploration and behind-the-scenes adventure for middle schoolers.

Discovery Room

An interactive, hands-on space to explore the wonders of the Museum.

Discovery Room for K-2 School Groups

Grades K-2: A hands-on exploration of science and inquiry.

Drop-In Events

A series of free, hands-on events for school groups of all ages on a variety of topics.

English Language Learner Earth Science Initiative

Science and cultural programs for English Language Learner teachers, students, and families.

High School Summer Science Institute

A weeklong introduction to the research and high school programming of the Museum.

Moveable Museum

Grades 3-12: Outreach to schools and community groups in New York City.

National Fossil Day and Earth Science Week Celebration

Oct. 11 & 13, 2011 - Join us for two special events for school groups in celebration of Earth Science week.

PhD in Comparative Biology

The Gilder Graduate School currently offers a PhD in Comparative Biology and offers numerous fellowship opportunities to graduate students at collaborating institutions.

Professional Development Workshops

Day, evening, and weekend programs designed to support in-school curriculum goals.

Sackler Educational Laboratory for Comparative Genomics and Human Origins

Grades 8-12: Middle and high school laboratory experience in comparative genomics.

Saltz Internship Program

An engaging opportunity for high school students to work in the Museum's halls.

Science Alliance

Middle School program where students design and conduct investigations and learn about careers in different scientific fields.

Science and Nature Program

Classes for young children and their parents about the wonder of science and nature.

Science Research Mentoring Program

In-depth scientific research training for high school students.

Urban Advantage

Program designed to support NYC middle school student investigations.

Offerings

Curriculum Topic Study:
New York City Geology

This six-session course is offered for After-School Professional Development Credit (P-credit) for middle and high school teachers through the NYC DOE from 3/5/11 to 5/7/11.

Designing a field trip for elementary school groups (Space)

One-day workshop for teachers of grades K through 5.

Digital Universe Flight School (Grades 6-8)

Learn to navigate our solar system, galaxy, and beyond using Digital Universe, the AMNH's cutting-edge three-dimensional digital map of our universe.

Exploring Climate Change

An online and on-site 3-week course for NYC area secondary science teachers Online April 16 through May 5, 2012 with two days at AMNH on May 4 and 5, 2012.

GRACE: Tracking Water from Space

One day workshops to support middle and high school science teachers' use of GRACE data in the classroom.

Informal Science Education Policy: Issues and Opportunities

This 2010 report was produced by the Policy Study Inquiry Group

Lab F: Your Evolving Brain

Grades 9-12: Students will investigate what brain structures humans share with other living organisms and what about our brain makes us uniquely human.

Making Science Matter: Collaborations between Informal Science Education Organizations and Schools

This report is the result of work by the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education

Museum Resources For Teaching Science

Lehman College - Spring 2012

NYC Library Program

Bring the Moveable Museum to your community library.

NYC School Program

This program brings the Moveable Museum to schools in New York City.

Policy

The Museum is endeavoring to inform policy initiatives at every level: city, state and federal.

Teaching Hudson River Ecology through the study of the invasive zebra mussel

Two-day workshop for Middle and High School teachers

THE EARLY ADVENTURES PROGRAM

Registration for The Early Adventures Program for the 2011-2012 school year is closed. Please check the website in early spring for details on how to register for the 2012-2013 school year.

TRUST: Earth and Space Science Institute 2010

Open to K-12 educators working towards certification in earth and space sciences.

TRUST: Summer Institute on Evolution and Biodiversity 2011

Available for graduate credit to secondary science teachers.

Visual Sciences Workshop

School of Visual Arts - Spring 2012

Exhibitions

Lizards & Snakes: Alive!

More than 60 live squamates (lizards) return to the museum.

Resources

Investigating Vegetation and Small Mammals in the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area of the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming

Along with students from her Pennsylvania high school and a high school in Scotland, this 11th-grader spent three weeks doing fieldwork in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. See her "Bio Group" findings.

Genetics in the Classroom and the Curriculum

Get tips for teaching the complex subject of genomics to high school students—everything from dealing with the lack of national standards to integrating the subject across the curriculum.

Map Your World

Have you ever gotten lost in a new place? Chances are you used a map to find your way. Archaeologists use maps to find their way around an excavation site—but first they have to draw them.

Kids in the Hall of Planet Earth

How can mud be dangerous? Can water break rocks? And how could a dead tree stump become as hard as a rock? Find these answers and more in this Web site created by kids, for kids.

Grouping Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs all belong to the same group, but within that group there are many subsets—meat-eating dinosaurs, four-legged dinosaurs, and so on. Try your hand at classification with these eight dinosaur illustrations.

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