Read on to learn more about our current Focus Workshops, or visit our Past Focus Workshops page to learn more about past offerings!
Interested in our programs and want to learn more before you commit?
Join us for a free, one-hour “sneak peek” webinar of our upcoming workshop. Experience a sample of the pedagogy and hands-on science content featured in A Matter of Scale: Earth’s Cosmic Coordinates, and discover how this program can support your teaching practice.
The Science and Engineering Practices reflect the major practices that real-world scientists use to navigate the world and build systems. In our free webinar, we will discuss the importance of students using the practices to investigate and build models and theories about the natural world. We will also engage you with some science content material from our upcoming 2-day Focus Workshop A Matter of Scale: Earth’s Cosmic Coordinates.
Register to join us on Tuesday, January 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM.
A Matter of Scale: Earth’s Cosmic Coordinates
Location: The EcoTarium Museum of Science and Nature (Worcester, MA)
Dates: Friday January 30, 2026 & Saturday January 31, 2026 (8:30 AM-3:30 PM ET)
Join us for this two-day Focus Workshop designed for grades 3-8 educators, where you will launch into an exploration of the Earth’s place in the universe, among the other billions of galaxies. Through hands-on activities, planetarium explorations, and classroom-ready investigations, you’ll explore the scale of the universe, model our solar system, dive into the life cycles of stars, and much more. Along the way, you’ll uncover strategies to deepen guided-inquiry in your classroom while connecting Earth’s place to the larger story of science. Hosted at the EcoTarium, this workshop blends content knowledge with practical teaching tools, leaving you inspired. The workshop will culminate with the creation of a Supernova paint model.
The Wade Institute instructors weave art, phenomena, and the Science and Engineering Practices into the science concepts explored. You will leave the workshop with more tools to explore and teach a subject that young and curious Earthlings are eager to learn.
Collaborating Partner: The EcoTarium Museum of Science and Nature
Cost: $300 per educator; $275 per educator if attending in a team of 3 or more educators from the same school or district.
14 PDPs are available without graduate credit.
22.5 PDPs and 1 optional graduate credit from Cambridge College/Bay Path University is available for an additional $75. Graduate credit requires additional work.
