Science & Mathematics Education
PREL provides opportunities and support for the improvement of teaching, learning, and assessment in mathematics and science. PREL offers technical assistance and professional development to teachers, administrators, and other educators as they design and implement proven science and mathematics programs and practices.
Workshops
Language-Focused Mathematics in Grades K–12
Audience: K–12 Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Coordinators
These workshops focus on the language needs of the many students who are learning mathematics in a language other than their first language. It also looks at how to support native speakers of English to better understand the language and content of mathematics. Teachers and math coordinators will learn how to identify and address the language requirements of the mathematics classroom through hands on experiences in mathematics and through reflection on how to support the language requirements of those experiences.
Integrating Mathematics, Science and English
Audience: K–12 Mathematics, English and Science Teachers and Coordinators
Workshop participants will experience the potential of integrated lessons that focus on the natural links between these three disciplines and that strengthen the learning of all three through an investigative and interactive approach. Participants will gain some experience in designing integrated lessons around a theme.
Algebraic Thinking in Grades K–6
Audience: K–6 Mathematics Teachers, Elementary Mathematics Coordinators, District Mathematics Coordinators
Engage in a variety of math activities designed to develop K–6 children’s algebraic thinking. The workshops will allow you to reflect on the nature and implications of such activities for both learners and teachers of mathematics.
Enriching the Teaching and Learning of Algebra in Secondary Schools
Audience: High School Mathematics Teachers, Middle School Mathematics Teachers, District Mathematics Coordinators
Activities will help you experience various routes into algebra for middle and high school students: generalizing patterns, algebra manipulatives, technology, problem solving, etc. Reflect on the contribution of each approach to student learning as students progress through their study of algebra.
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)
Audience: Grade 1–12 Classroom Teachers, in teams or individually
GLOBE is a hands-on, school-based, environmental science and education program for students in grades 1–12. The program brings together students, teachers, and scientists from around the world to increase scientific understanding of the Earth, and supports improved student achievement in science and mathematics. Students carry out investigations that scientists have designed to gather data about the Earth and how it functions as a system. The data is recorded in a permanent school data record, sent to the GLOBE Student Data Server using the Internet and the World Wide Web, and can be used for independent research projects.
Mathematics Manipulatives to Increase Student Learning
Audience: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Coordinators at the school and district Levels
Utilize a variety of level appropriate (elementary, middle, and high school) manipulatives for increasing student understanding in mathematics classrooms. You will learn how to select, create, introduce, and make optimal use of manipulatives.
Pacific Region Integrated Mathematics and English (PRIME)
Audience: K–12 Mathematics Teachers and Specialists, English Specialists
PRIME is a structured program of trainings over time providing rich opportunities for teachers and specialists to learn to simultaneously teach mathematics, its language, and English communicative skills in the classroom while simultaneously taking into account the linguistic and cultural needs and experiences of their students. The approach in mathematics is quantitative and hands-on. Besides deepening understanding of mathematics and its pedagogy, participants will learn to identify and teach the language of mathematics and the English structures that support its learning in the classroom.
Mathematics, English and Science—an Integrated, Investigative and Interactive approach (I3)
Audience: K–12 Mathematics, English and Science Teachers, Specialists and Coordinators
I-cubed is a structured program of trainings over time that helps participants enrich their learning environments through integration of the disciplines, investigative activities and the design of group interaction. Participants first experience and then learn to create culturally appropriate theme-based lessons for their classrooms.
Programs
Mathematics Education for Novice Teachers: Opportunities for Reflection (MENTOR)
Hawaii Marine Science Curriculum Development (HMSCD NOAA)
Websites
Ethnomathematics Digital Library
Picturing Science
Products
Booklets:
Pathfinder Teaching and Learning Units
Papers:
Aligning Content, Program, and System Standards in Mathematics and Science Classrooms
Multimedia
CDs:
Forest Treasures
Process Approach to Middle and Secondary School Mathematics: Algebra I
DVDs/VHS Tapes:
Canoes of the Marshall Islands
Clean Water in the Pacific
Climate Change FishQuest
Habitat Comeback
Humpback Whales of the Hawaiian Islands National Marine Sanctuary
Islands in the Pacific
Kids and Reefs
KidScience: Fragile Environments
KidScience: in American Samoa
KidScience: Messages from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
KidScience: Turtle Tracks
Mountains of Fire
Ocean Talks
Reef Detectives
Underwater Classroom
Teaching Reading in the Vernacular
Contact PREL
Pacific Resources for Education and Learning
Phone:
(808) 441-1300
U.S. Toll-free Phone:
(800) 377-4773
AskPREL
Phone:
(808) 441-1300
U.S. Toll-free Phone:
(800) 377-4773
AskPREL
Service Request
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