The Merrimack Education Center in partnership with WGBH/Teachers’ Domain and Fitchburg State College is offering a three-credit online graduate course, Science and the Living World. This course is aimed at helping elementary teachers with the elementary life science curriculum Standards. This course will broaden science content knowledge, introduce new inquiry-based teaching strategies, and help you integrate more technology into your lessons. This course draws on the resources of WGBH/Teachers’ Domain and includes downloadable short clips from public broadcasting programs such as NOVA and ZOOM. This is the first course in a series for teaching life science in the elementary school. This course is online with the convenience of working at one’s own pace and without travel. Three (3) graduate credits are available from Fitchburg State College. The course will also count as a content course for elementary Recertification purposes.

Title:	Science and the Living World
Course Number:	PDMT 6113
Instructor	Dr. Christopher Cratsley, Fitchburg State College
Course Dates:	Summer 2008 - ONLINE (July 7 - August 15
On-line Introductory Session:	(optional) Wednesday, June 25, 5:00 pm 40 Linnell Circle, Billerica
Graduate Credit:	Three (3) graduate credits, Fitchburg State College
Cost:	$776 $15 Blackboard user fee*
Technical requirements:	Internet service, E-mail, Word processing software, Shockwave and Flash (free download), Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download), Quicktime (free download)

* Students must register with the Merrimack Education Center no later than two weeks prior to the first class in order that access to Blackboard is established.