Center for Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education

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Michigan Mathematics
and Science Center Network

GLRC
Our Home:
The Great Lakes Research Center

Outdoor Science Field Trips
at Forests, Fields, Ponds and Streams
Available to Grades K-12

Lake Superior Floor Map
For Sale

Great Lakes Floor Map
For Sale

WUP Center
Brochure

Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative
lakesuperiorstewardship.org

MORE -Michigan Outdoor Recreation and Education

See the Video Archive

A partnership of Copper Country & Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School Districts and Michigan Technological University. Serving schools and communities in Houghton, Baraga, Gogebic, Ontonagon and Keweenaw Counties The Western UP Center is a member of the Michigan Mathematics and Science Centers Network.

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10th Biennial Lake Superior Youth Symposium Link

2013 Summer Institutes & Courses For Teachers Link

Teacher Workshops

To register for Workshops, contact: Loret at 482-0331 loret@copperisd.org
Transportation Education Workshop Series in Detroit Spring 2013 ~ May 11
Announcing the Teacher Institutes Summer 2013

K-12 Students

Family Science Nights
May 22 - Brockway Mountain Spring Raptor Migration Special Field Trip for Schools

10th Biennial Lake Superior Youth Symposium: May 16-19, 2013 at Michigan Technological University ~~~~~~ Click here for Video Clip

www.lakesuperioryouth.org

Community Events

Note that All *Green Films are 7:00-8:30 pm in G002 Hesterberg Hall in the MTU Forestry Building

May 9 Green Film: Chasing Ice ~ Discussion Facilitator: Dr. Sarah Green, MTU Dept of Chemistry

Green Films from 2011-13 are now available for a 3-week checkout for Classroom, Meeting or Home Viewing; To borrow films, contact: Loret Roberts (482-0331 or loret@copperisd.org ) at the CCISD at 809 Hecla St., Hancock.

Conferences

Oct. 4-6, 2013 Michigan Alliance for Environmental & Outdoor Education

News

Tech, local community celebrate Lake Superior (Daily Mining Gazette)

Two from Tech Among Top 25 Education Professors in Michigan

Spring Break Camp for Elementary School Students

Michigan Tech Hosts TiViTz & Get WISE

Michigan Tech Students Head to Detroit for Alternative Spring Break

World Water Day at the Great Lakes Rsearch Center, Michigan Tech

Parent-Daughter Engineering Exploration: What does it take to be an engineer? See the PDF Flyer

After-school Science for Kids Jauuary to March at Great Lakes Research Center

Family Style Engineering by Lara Smetana, Joan Chadde, Wendy Goldfein and Cheryl Nelson in Science & Children ( December 2012), a publication of the National Science Teachers Association. PDF

Lake Superior Water Festival October 5, 2012 at the Great Lakes Research Center

Menominee School's visit to the Great Lakes Research Center on Sept. 10 & 11

More News

Walking Paths

& Protected Areas of the Keweenaw

The Michigan Nature Association announces the publication of a new guidebook titled Walking Paths & Protected Areas of the Keweenaw which describes twenty-two sanctuaries & preserves in Houghton and Keweenaw Counties. MORE . . . .

Announcing
the Teacher Institutes Summer 2013

Contacts

Shawn Oppliger, shawn@copperisd.org
Director,
Loret Roberts, loret@copperisd.org
Secretary
Western Upper Peninsula Center for Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education
809 Hecla St.
Hancock, MI 49930
Tel: (906) 482-0331
Fax: (906) 482-1931

Joan Chadde, jchadde@mtu.edu
K-12 Education & Outreach Program Coordinator,
Lloyd Wescoat, lwescoat@mtu.edu
Education Program Assistant
Michelle Miller, michellem@mtu.edu
Outdoor Science Investigations Field Trip Coordinator
Michigan Technological University
Center for Science & Environmental Education
Michigan Technological University
115 Great Lakes Research Center
1400 Townsend Dr., Houghton, MI 49931-1295
Tel: (906) 487-3341 Fax: (906) 487-1029

The Western UP Center offers a wide variety of K-12 outreach programs in science, mathematics and environmental education to improve K-12 science and mathematics education throughout the state of Michigan.

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