Sanilac County Science and Math

Center

Brown City

Carsonville-Port Sanilac

Croswell-Lexington

Deckerville

Marlette

Peck

Sandusky

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Servin

g8800+ Students

500+ Teachers

in these local

districts...

Our Mission “The mission of the Sanilac County

Science and Mathematics Center is to provide leadership, programs, and services to improve interest, involvement, and achievement in mathematics, science and technology.”

Our Demographics DEMOGRAPHICS

The SCSMC is located in a 1,000 square mile area in the Thumb of Michigan. Sanilac County is geographically the largest county in the lower peninsula.

The SCSMC is a member of the Michigan Mathematics and Science Centers Network and the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology.

Our Services LeadershipStudent ServicesProfessional

Development Curriculum Support Resource

ClearinghouseCommunity

Involvement

LEADERSHIP

“Great schools are built by people, people who care and who act…The secret ingredient is human, not electronic.”

America 2000

Leadership Edited and distributed ABC in Science News Science Specialist assisted Croswell-Lexington

Schools with Technology Literacy Challenge Grant Science Instructor served on Regional Director’s

Executive Council for National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium

Science Specialist served on Blue Water Curriculum Council

Director served on SISD Strategic Planning Steering Committee

Director and Science Specialist served on Staff Development Action Team

Student Services “The yardstick is whether

students…can understand as well as memorize, apply as well as state, imagine as well as copy, solve problems ratherthan shrug them off, and make themselves felt in a society that seems to be in trouble

for lack of thesecapacities.”

Harriet Tyson Science Education Guidebook

Student Service

ABC in Science K-7 Inquiry-based Kit Program provided 545 hands-on science kits to elementary classrooms and offered a Science Specialist who taught 140 active lessons for:

Kindergarten Giant Pumpkin Visit First Grade Giant Teeter-Totter Visit Second Grade Papermaking Visit Third Grade Ice Cream Making Visit Fourth Grade Groundwater Visit Fifth Grade Matter Visit

“Doing experiments helps me to remember and teaches me to figure out problems.” 3rd Grade Student

Student Services High School Accelerated Program

Astronomy Night Science/Math Expo with 67 student research projects E.A.R.T.H. Center Mammalian Study E.A.R.T.H. Center Fish and Related Aquatic Life Project Southeastern Michigan Junior Science and Humanities

Symposium, Wayne State University Detroit Medical Center Field Trip NASA Symposium, SanDiego, CA Science/Math Recognition Night

Professional Development

“You can’t have a learning society without learning students, and you can’t have learning students without learning teachers.” Fullan (1993)

Professional Development

Conducted ABC in Science workshopsNew Teacher kit workshops Preparing for Science MEAP Investigations Unit Revision Workshops

Provided workshops for Sanilac County educators and community environmental educators Science Teacher Leader Program Websites for Teachers Instructional Technology Rockets for Schools

Curriculum Support

“Curriculum planning must be an integral part of the continuous school improvement process.”

Science Education Guidebook

Curriculum Support

Sanilac ISD Science Specialist and Croswell-Lexington Schools revised ABC in Science kits: Kindergarten Animals First Grade Measurement, Force, and Simple MachinesSecond Grade Sound and Light Third Grade Motions, Forces, and Simple Machines Fourth Grade Detective Moolock (Energy Unit)

Support of MASER regional curriculum team Support of Curriculum Mapping Process

Resource Clearinghouse “If you want to encourage

elementary school teachers to teach science through inquiry, you have to provide them with the right stuff at the right time. You have to give teachers a deal they can’t refuse.”

Larry Small, Science Materials Support (1992)

Resource Clearing House

Expanded curriculum materials enhance ABC in Science kits

Provide science kits to support inquiry-based science in grades K-7

Monitor ABC in Science kit distribution center to store, refurbish and distribute science kits.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

“Parents, other community members, administrators, students and teachers all need to work together toward [a common] vision of scientific literacy.

Science Education Guidebook

Community Involvement

Lake Huron Water Quality StudyConducted by SCSMC students in high school

accelerated program and submitted to DNR

Showcase Night

Astronomy Night

Science/Math EXPO Night

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