Professional Development
Invite our team of professional science educators, scientists and inclusivity experts to help your organization achieve its goals.
Educator Workshops
Workshops support professional development needs in a collaborative and fun environment. Each workshop is rich with vetted science content, science teaching methods skill-building and application, useful resources, and networking opportunities.
Butterfly Pavilion Workshops will:
- Bolster your team’s science content knowledge
- Expand skills with proven methods that make science learning fun and relevant
- Increase teacher comfort with teaching science
Request a Butterfly Pavilion teacher workshop at Butterfly Pavilion or at Your Site!
Choose from titles below, which can be customized for workshop length, target grade range, and site. Descriptions below are based on an 8-hour agenda at Butterfly Pavilion.
For availability, pricing, and scheduling, please email: education@butterflies.org
Amazing Adaptations and Partnerships
Explore amazing adaptations and intricate partnerships from the invertebrate world through interactive science lessons. We’ll work with the 5E Model of Science Instruction to review the lessons and use the model to outline a lesson to use/adapt in your own classroom!
Beyond Butterflies
What creature(s) come to mind when you think of invertebrates? In this content-rich workshop, participants explore the amazing diversity of invertebrates, experience learning tools to tap curiosity, design a lesson to use/adapt, and discover incredible invertebrate diversity, butterflies and beyond!
Pollinators in Peril Series – Bees and Monarchs
NEW! If you an educator for children grades 3-6, this workshop is especially for you! Combining the strengths of distance learning, project-based learning, and citizen science, this workshop will empower you to connect your students with authentic science. Explore fascinating content about bees and monarchs, find out what scientists know about declining populations of these critical pollinators, and investigate citizen science projects that will have your students contributing to the body of knowledge and empowered to help reverse troubling trends for monarchs and bees.
Project WILD Workshops
Project WILD is a nationally recognized, award-winning curriculum supporting hands-on learning with activities teaching about wildlife, habitats, water resources, and more. Curriculum guides a filled with background content, vetted and time-tested activities, and a plethora of resources.
The Good, The Bad, The Bug-ly
What is it about invertebrates that attracts or repels us? In this workshop, participants will use inquiry to challenge their own misconception-based fears and develop a new lens through which to empower learners to see, understand, and value invertebrates.
For availability, pricing, and scheduling, please email: education@butterflies.org
Please message registrar@butterflies.org with any inquiries around these programs or with any questions/concerns around payment.