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Program Overview Virginia physical science teachers of grades 3-8 are invited to apply for a two-week summer professional development workshop at The University of Virginia in Charlottesville, with fall follow up. This is a collaboration between the University of Virginia (UVA) and Jefferson Lab (JLab). The summer workshop will be taught by Physics and Science Education faculty from UVA. During the ten-day summer professional development, teachers complete ten hands-on energy, electricity, and magnetism investigations - one lab per day. The science content for these investigations is aligned with the Virginia SOLs; therefore, with minor modification, it is expected teachers will be able to integrate these activities in their own classroom science instruction. Each lab consists of several activities that include data collection and analysis and questions to answer. Labs are submitted, graded, and returned. An additional focus of the professional development is pedagogy. Teachers will learn to integrate the content from the investigations with technology using an experimental inquiry model. In addition, participants will produce lesson plans and assessment tools for classroom use. Teachers will earn 3 graduate credits after 1) submitting tuition payment to the University of Virginia and 2) completing all course requirements. This program is sponsored by a Math Science Partnership grant from the Virginia Department of Education. Program Highlights Attend a ten-day summer workshop at UVa in Charlottesville, Virginia. Receive a stipend of $1500 when all activities and data collection activities associated with the ten-day summer workshop have been successfully completed (approximately September 2015). Application Deadline - 5:00 PM April 17, 2015