NURTURES offers engaging science experiences for students, families and teachers. Our family engagement materials provide fun and educational activities that encourage meaningful science explorations and discussions at home. Additionally, these materials support and reinforce math and literacy concepts.
Our teacher professional development is designed to empower educators to confidently engage their students with captivating science and engineering experiences in PreK-3rd classrooms, helping students discover the wonder of science and engineering through inquiry-based learning.
Extend science learning from school to home with fun, educative activities designed to support and encourage families to have meaningful science discussions, use scientific vocabulary, promote interest in science learning, and reinforce math and literacy concepts.
Research indicates families with various backgrounds, education levels and experiences are very capable facilitators of science experiences for their young children when provided with carefully designed, supportive materials like the family science activity packs. (Strickler-Eppard, Czerniak, & Kaderavek, 2019)
Designed to introduce or expand teacher experience with inquiry-based science in the PreK-3rd classroom, NURTURES teacher professional development aims to increase teacher knowledge and skills to design and implement engaging, child-relevant 3D science and engineering inquiry lessons and experiences with confidence.
A longitudinal case study revealed improved pedagogical practices among teachers, increased science content knowledge and confidence to teach science, and increased use of technology in the classroom. (Reinhart, 2019)
A repeated measures analysis and a randomized controlled trial study found that K-2 students whose teachers had participated in NURTURES demonstrated higher achievement than peers whose teachers had not been in the program. (Paprzycki et al., 2017)
Longitudinal studies demonstrate the long-term impact of the program on student learning with gains in science, early literacy, and mathematics being sustained to grade 5. An analysis of test scores for children in the family engagement condition demonstrated significant increase in scores for early literacy (p=.02), science (p< .01), and math (p<.01). (Mentzer & Paprzycki, 2020)
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