Bringing Science into Communities

Via Terra works to connect educators and students to current scientific research and events to enhance experiences and opportunities in the classroom.  We specifically support education at the classroom, school, and district levels to incorporate scientific inquiry and design opportunities.

Program development includes:
  • Training programs for teachers and administrators to develop comprehensive scientific inquiry modules.
  • Program planning facilitation to integrate project-based learning and scientific inquiry with larger curriculum goals.
  • Long-term school training and support systems to build and test inquiry programs.

Upcoming Trainings

Embracing Curiosity
Gamboa, Panama - June 24 & 25,  2019
Integrating Literacy and Scientific Inquiries into the K-6 Classroom

A hands-on experience for teachers looking to enhance their inquiry-based tools for science and literacy. Working alongside scientists, this workshop will model inquiry project structures, and demonstrate how student-led explorations can be scaffolded through the use of high quality, diverse literature and grounded within a rigorous scientific framework.

Additional Trainings

Inventing a Better World
Harnessing Children's Creativity Using the
Design Process and Engineering to Solve Problems
A workshop guiding teachers in the use of design thinking to turn their classrooms into invention laboratories for solving the world's problems.  Design is fundamentally human process that pushes students to empathize, ask questions, get creative and start designing. 

Project Based Curriculum Planning
Longitudinal Content and Skills Planning to Integrate
Classwork Into Meaningful and Authentic Projects
A workshop in its own right or an add on to existing workshops to integrate multiple curricular foci into project based learning models.