Join the thousands of educators and students doing Vital Signs in classrooms, afterschool programs, learning centers, summer camps, and recreation programs across Maine.
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.
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!
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.
I have not done a great deal of field work before, but now feel that the investment of time will be well worth it!
Teacher Institute 2009
I wish you had seen my students' reactions while they were engaged in the field study. Then we watched as their observations came across the Vital Signs website, and the oohs and aahs started rolling in!
Mena Irving, Washburn District Elementary, Aroostook County
