ENGINEER YOUR WORLD
Engineer Your World (EYW) is an innovative, student-centered curriculum that engages learners in authentic engineering experiences and inspires them to embrace an engineer’s habits of mind. Collaborative, student-directed projects build resilient problem-solving skills and empower students to think like engineers, to adopt engineering processes, and to pursue engineering disciplines for the betterment of our world.
FEMINEERS®
The Femineer® Program is a teacher training program that was created and funded by Cal Poly Pomona’s College of Engineering in 2013 to inspire young women to pursue STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). The program provides 6-12th grade students with project-based learning, women in engineering undergraduate student mentors, and opportunities to visit the University of Iowa. The University of Iowa is the first affiliate university outside of California.
CLASSROOM VISITS
Want to visit the museum but don't have the time or resources? Our education and outreach coordinator can offer programs on archaeology, ecology, and geology to formal and informal groups at schools, libraries, museums, and other community organizations. This presentations can be supplemented with the use of items from our Discovery Trunks.
CLASSROOM VISITS
Our education and outreach coordinator makes presentations to schools, libraries, and other groups. Have an interest in Iowa history but can't make it to the museum? An educator can discuss various topics in Iowa's past with your students, using items from our Discovery Trunks to supplement the experience. Contact us to learn how we can come visit you.
DISCOVERY TRUNKS
Discovery Trunks are traveling teaching trunks, containing objects, artifacts, books, DVDs, activities, and lesson plans, and are ideal for educators who want hands-on materials and lessons that fit core teaching goals about Iowa's cultural and natural history. Trunks help develop student's scientific, cultural, and historical literacy. The trunk program has been developed by the Pentacrest Museums (Old Capitol Museum and Museum of Natural History), Office of the State Archaeologist, and Paleontology Repository.
The Office of the State Archaeologist
STANLEY MUSEUM OF ART K-12 EDUCATION
Stanley Museum of Art Docents and instructors lead interactive presentations of original works of art from around the globe. With funding from the University of Iowa Museum of Art Education Partners, the Stanley Museum of Art education department purchased these works of art for use in K-12 classrooms. With funding from the Stanley Museum of Art Education Partners, the museum’s Education Department purchased artworks specifically for exemplary, object-based learning during art, social studies, and language arts classes. Students can examine closely—and even handle—many of the objects.
University of Iowa Museum of Art
JACOBSON INSTITUTE
The Jacobson Institute teaches the entrepreneurial mindset to K-12 students through teacher education, innovative curricula, and outreach. BizInnovator competitions, youth entrepreneurship summer camps, conferences, trainings, and entrepreneurship curriculum are all offered by the Jacobson Institute and the University of Iowa John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (Iowa JPEC).
University of Iowa John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (Iowa JPEC)
DISCOVERY TRUNKS
Discovery Trunks are traveling teaching trunks, containing objects, artifacts, books, DVDs, activities, and lesson plans, and are ideal for educators who want hands-on materials and lessons that fit core teaching goals about Iowa's cultural and natural history. Trunks help develop student's scientific, cultural, and historical literacy. The trunk program has been developed by the Pentacrest Museums (Old Capitol Museum and Museum of Natural History), Office of the State Archaeologist, and Paleontology Repository. We continue to expand the trunk program to meet the needs of Iowa's educators.
EDUCATOR RESOURCES
We provide resources to formal and informal educators seeking to use archaeology for learners of all ages, including yearly pre-service and in-service teacher workshops. Our archaeology Discovery Trunks are loaned for free to educators statewide. The trunks cover all periods of human occupation in Iowa, from the Paleoindians to historic dairy farming, and include standards-based lessons developed and adapted by experienced curricula writers on staff.
Office of the Vice President for Research & Economic Development
DARE TO DISCOVER
The Dare to Discover website is a gateway to the programs through which our museums, centers, and programs engage with the public both here on campus and in communities across Iowa. Find out how to bring a speaker to your school, library or community group, or borrow a traveling Discovery Trunk full of hands-on activities for students. Connect with resources for entrepreneurs and start-ups. Learn about UI's technical and consulting services for Iowans, including public health, environmental monitoring, archaeological investigations, and fossil identification.
Office of the Vice President for Research & Economic Development
EXPLORING IOWA ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE K-12 CLASSROOM
The Office of the State Archaeologist (OSA) education staff visits classrooms statewide to deliver lessons and activities that are interdisciplinary, inquiry-based, hands-on, and customizable for all grade levels based on current classroom content and teacher needs. All activities are place-based and emphasize what is special about the archaeological, cultural, and environmental history of Iowa and the school’s own community. This program received one of the Governor's inaugural five STEM Advisory Council Seal of Approvals in March 2015.
The Office of the State Archaeologist
DISCOVERY TRUNKS
Discovery Trunks are traveling teaching trunks, containing objects, artifacts, books, DVDs, activities, and lesson plans, and are ideal for educators who want hands-on materials and lessons that fit core teaching goals about Iowa's cultural and natural history. Trunks help develop student's scientific, cultural, and historical literacy. The trunk program has been developed by the Pentacrest Museums (Old Capitol Museum and Museum of Natural History), Office of the State Archaeologist, and Paleontology Repository. We continue to expand the trunk program to meet the needs of Iowa's educators.
THE COLUMBUS JUNCTION PROJECT
This project is the foundation of a service learning course for undergraduate speech and hearing majors at Iowa. This collaboration joins undergraduate students and four preschool programs at Roundy Elementary in Columbus Junction, Iowa, a community with a high population of Spanish-speaking residents. Iowa students lead preschoolers in a special early literacy program that includes daily supplemental language-literacy instruction.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
YOUTH ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING WORKSHOP
The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Frank N. Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing has been granted a Better Futures For Iowans award to fund a program of collaborative community outreach in partnership with the Iowa Youth Writing Project (IYWP), a dynamic, young nonprofit that provides writing, tutoring, creative learning, and publishing opportunities (at little or no cost to participants) to youth across the state of Iowa.
Division of Continuing Education
EARLY CLASSROOM COLLABORATION
The "Language Disorders in Children: Birth to Five" course includes a service learning component, in which Master’s students in speech-language pathology partner with the early classroom teachers at the Neighborhood Centers of Johnson County.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
THE CLIMBERS PROJECT
The overall purpose of the CLIMBERS study is to provide evidence of the effectiveness of a reading intervention, Breakthrough to Literacy (BTL), taken to scale in the Chicago Public Schools. The BTL model is driven by the four best predictors of reading achievement: oral language, oral comprehension, and vocabulary development; alphabet knowledge; phonological/phonemic awareness; and concepts of print.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
AMERICAN REGIONS MATHEMATICS LEAGUE
The American Regions Mathematics League's annual competition brings together the nation's finest students. They meet, compete, and socialize with one another, forming friendships and sharpening their mathematical skills. The contest is written for high school students, although some exceptional junior high students attend each year.