Video: C.S.I. Science Teacher Workshop

Mississippi State University, Miss.(WCBI)

Earlier today you could find science teachers from all over the golden triangle doing experiments on Mississippi State’s campus.

A two week workshop is being held to help teachers, as well as students, find the best ways of working with the different areas of science.

The Director of Research at the University of Mississippi, Katie Echols said, “This is a very hands on workshop. It’s very much about what they can do in the labs with their students as oppose to necessarily bringing in these new topics or emerging fields,” she says, “What we want to do is empower teachers to teacher what they are being required by the state to teach but teach it in a way that better engages both them and their students.”

The workshop is also designed to help teachers prepare their students for upper level courses. This year the goal for the workshop is to help the teachers to get students excited about science again.

Jettie Ware a seventh grade teacher at Shivers Middle School said, “It’s going to help me teach the students hands on because kids get tired of sitting their reading a book or taking notes,”she says. ” With them moving and actually discovering and producing evidence I think is going to be very beneficial, there going to remember this rather then trying to read something and trying to memorizing it.”

This is the 6th year CSI or creative science through inquiry is holding this workshop. Next year’s workshop will be held in New Orleans.