STEM Training Workshop for Educators
Date:
August 4, 2026
This professional development workshop equips educators with practical strategies to bring STEM learning into the classroom. Teachers explore inquiry-based teaching, hands-on learning, interdisciplinary approaches, and effective ways to guide students through project-based activities.
What Educators Will Explore
- Inquiry-Based Learning – Develop meaningful questions that encourage curiosity and investigation.
- STEM Integration – Connect science, technology, engineering, and mathematics across subjects.
- Hands-On Facilitation – Learn strategies for managing collaborative and practical activities.
- Lesson Design – Redesign existing lessons using engaging STEM approaches.
- Assessment & Feedback – Create practical rubrics for evaluating project-based learning.
- Safety & Classroom Management – Build confidence in managing hands-on STEM environments.
- Micro-Teaching – Practise delivering short STEM activities and receive peer feedback.
Learning Outcomes
Educators leave with practical tools and strategies to design engaging, inquiry-driven STEM experiences that encourage students to question, experiment, collaborate, and solve problems.
- Safely observe the sun using specialized telescopes and approved optical equipment (weather permitting).
- High powered water rockets test fly with demonstration of Newton’s laws of motion.
- Introduction to Astronomy and Telescopes (live session on robotic telescopes (weather permitting).
- Build and test fly amazing high performance Stomp Rockets.
- Includes a set of rainbow glasses, UV color changing beads and solar clock activity.
- Comprehensive worksheets are provided with guidelines on how to further study these fascinating and important subjects.
- Recommended age range 9-13 years.
