Design Squad Inventing Green Educator Training
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WGBH Educational Foundation
1 Guest Street Boston, MA 02135Description
This free event is designed for both in-school and out of school time educators to learn about Design Squad's newest collection of resources aimed at getting students to learn about engineering for a sustainable future. This training will introduce educators to the Design Squad teaching resources and materials, show how to adapt Design Squad resources for your specific program, and give you a chance to try a hands-on engineering activity. At the end of the training, educators will leave with a Design Squad kit filled with materials for three engineering activities! Lunch will be provided!
At Design Squad our mission is to get kids excited about engineering. For years Design Squad, a PBS KIDS show and website, has created activities, videos and clubs that aim to make engineering accessible and fun for kids. Now, Design Squad is tackling a new content area: inventing for a sustainable future. We want to get kids thinking about how engineering and invention impacts environmental sustainability and how new inventions can help tackle environmental problems.
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WGBH is America’s preeminent public broadcaster and the largest producer of PBS content for TV, the web and mobile, and a major supplier of programming for public radio nationwide, on air and online. WGBH’s television channels include WGBH 2, WGBX 44, WGBY 57 and the digital channels WORLD and Create. WGBH Radio serves listeners across New England with 89.7 WGBH, Boston’s Local NPR, 99.5 WCRB Classical Radio Boston and WCAI, the Cape and Islands NPR Station. WGBH also is a major source of digital content and programs for public radio through PRI/ PRX and a leader in educational multimedia with PBS LearningMedia, providing the nation’s educators with free, curriculumbased digital content.