Hands-on Teacher Training

The Virginia Living Museum's Teacher Training Institute provides outstanding SOL-correlated, grade-level targeted teacher training programs in life, environmental and earth science for teachers of grades K-12. Programs can range from one-day workshops to week-long courses that can be taken for three graduate credits in science or for recertification points.

The museum's nationally recognized teacher training programs are designed to improve the quality of science instruction by combining essential science content information and curriculum development strategies with hands-on, activity-oriented techniques for teaching science in the classroom.

School system administrators, please call 757-595-1900 ext. 216 to learn how the Virginia Living Museum can develop teacher training courses customized to meet your school system's professional development needs.

Funded in part by C.A. Barrs Contractor, Inc.

Teacher Training

Amazing Animal Adaptations

Earth Science Rocks!

Food Chains and Webs

The Living Plant

Teaching Scientific Investigation

One-day workshops offered for elementary teachers

Geology Rocks (mineralogy), Virginia's Fossil History (paleontology)

Two-day earth science workshops, each with a lab component and field study, offered for middle and high school science teachers

Chesapeake Bay Ecology

One week, graduate level science course with lab and field components offered for elementary or secondary science teachers

Science Goes Wild

One week, graduate level, survey course of basic environmental science concepts offered for elementary or middle school teachers