VS for Educators

VS for Educators

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Do Vital Signs with your students!

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    Field Missions
    Curriculum resources
    Tutorials!

Join the thousands of educators and students doing Vital Signs in classrooms, afterschool programs, learning centers, summer camps, and recreation programs across Maine.

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Professional Development

    Institutes and events
    Online discussions among educators

Institutes are a professional and fun venue for educators to grow their skills and knowledge, change or refine their practice, and connect with colleagues statewide. Educators learn by doing, experiencing, contributing, and playing in ways that translate directly into practice.

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Curriculum resources

    Lesson plans, games, units of study
    Maine Learning Results Standards
    Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license

Activities and units developed by us and educators statewide encourage students to collaborate, communicate, think critically and creatively, and build scientific habits of mind. Use, modify, share, and redistribute these resources!

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Authentic Science Learning Environment

    Learning environment
    Inquiry learning

Students learn science by being scientists as they participate directly in a real environmental research effort alongside scientists, professionals, citizens, and a statewide network of their peers.

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Vital Signs is a Gulf of Maine Research Institute Program. Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 3.0 License.