Professional Development Sessions

Explore how using questions with no definitive answers can help students think deeply, engage in lively discussion, and provide evidence for their thinking. Think about the costs and benefits of space exploration through objects.

Discoveries and technological advances sometimes have a darker side, and it is important to engage students around complex stories and perspectives. Learn how to facilitate difficult conversations with thinking routines.

Failure doesn’t mean we give up. Build your students’ critical reasoning and problem solving skills with engineering design and empower students to get inspired through failure. Explore ways to incorporate design thinking to all subjects, grade levels and students.

Preschoolers may first notice their shadow while playing out in the sun. You can build on this interest to design playful explorations outside and inside the classroom that deepen children’s understanding of light and shadow.

The Museum has hundreds of objects that tell the story of aerospace history. But teaching with objects isn’t limited to museums. Learn how close looking and observation skills can be used on any objects. 

Want to teach your students about the solar system and beyond but don’t have access to a planetarium? Learn about Stellarium, a free planetarium software that can help teach about seasons, moon phases, solar system bodies, constellation stories, and more.