Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Workshop proposal

Use the following template for your workshop proposal- DUE Tuesday May 6th.
Workshop Proposal Template.

Use the following guidelines when developing your workshop.

For our Science Ethics Conference, your task as a group is to develop a conference workshop around your research topic. Typically, workshops are designed to catch the interest of conference attendees and enrich their learning with educational, interactive experiences. Our audience of eighth and ninth grade students from around the village will have the opportunity to review the workshop offerings beforehand and sign up for those that sound interesting to them.

Your workshop must be a 30 minutes in length. You may design the workshop with another group; however, all of you must actively participate in leading the conference. Your workshop must include the following components:

• Introduce the topic with an educational component
• Engage audience members in some hands-on learning activity
• Include some component related to the ethical issues of your topic
• Provide some kind of handout or brochure where audience members can go to find more information (For example, you can reference your gallery exhibit, your DP’s or other pertinent resources)
• Develop a public feedback form where audience members can provide you with feedback about what they learned as well as constructive feedback about the workshop itself.

You must turn in a workshop proposal using the template provided on Anne and Spencer’s DP’s. This proposal, once finalized, will serve as a description to be provided to attendees in order to catch their interest and motivate them to attend, so make it sound as interesting as possible. Your group must submit the proposal electronically to both Anne and Spencer by Tuesday May 6th . All workshops will take place on June 5th.