FCAT Science

Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski is a nation­ally rec­og­nized sci­ence edu­ca­tion con­sul­tant with over 25 years expe­ri­ence in acad­e­mia. Diana trav­els exten­sively through­out the coun­try to share her knowl­edge and enthu­si­asm for sci­ence with edu­ca­tors, stu­dents, par­ents, and admin­is­tra­tors. Diana has been a keynote speaker, fea­tured speaker, and pre­sen­ter at over 85 con­fer­ences nation­wide. Her keynote pre­sen­ta­tions and pro­fes­sional staff devel­op­ment work­shops are renowned for being inter­ac­tive, enlight­en­ing, and inspi­ra­tional. She has pro­vided over 600 hands-on sci­ence pro­fes­sional staff devel­op­ment work­shops nation­wide, reach­ing thou­sands of educators.

Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski pro­vides the fol­low­ing edu­ca­tional con­sult­ing ser­vices through­out the nation and worldwide:

• Inter­ac­tive Keynote Presentations
• Hands-On Sci­ence Pro­fes­sional Staff Devel­op­ment Work­shops For Edu­ca­tors and Admin­is­tra­tors (all grade levels)
• Fam­ily Sci­ence Workshops
• Hands-On Sci­ence Pro­grams For Stu­dents Of All Ages

Inter­ac­tive Keynote Pre­sen­ta­tions– Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski’s keynote pre­sen­ta­tions are highly inter­ac­tive. Each par­tic­i­pant will be actively engaged in the pre­sen­ta­tion and mes­sage through hands-on explo­rations. Diana’s keynotes are designed to enlighten, moti­vate, and inspire all edu­ca­tors. No snooz­ing dur­ing Diana’s keynotes!

Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski Offers The Fol­low­ing Inter­ac­tive Keynote Presentations:

Inte­grat­ing Sci­ence Across The Disciplines

Devel­op­ing Crit­i­cal Think­ing Skills and Life Long Learners

Teach­ing Sci­ence Through Children’s Literature

Over­com­ing Your Fears of Teach­ing Science

Cul­ti­vat­ing The Young Child’s Nat­ural Curiosity

Teach­ing Sci­ence In The Early Child­hood Class­room: It Can Be Done!

In addi­tion to the above inter­ac­tive keynote pre­sen­ta­tions, Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski can cus­tom design a keynote pre­sen­ta­tion to meet the goals of your spe­cific con­fer­ence and audience.

Hands-On Sci­ence Pro­fes­sional Staff Devel­op­ment Workshops:

Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski offers half-day, full-day work­shops, and exten­sive multiple-day insti­tutes for indi­vid­ual schools and dis­tricts. Dur­ing these work­shops par­tic­i­pants can expect to increase con­tent knowl­edge and be intro­duced to new and effec­tive meth­ods of teach­ing sci­ence con­cepts to their stu­dents in an atmos­phere that is highly inter­ac­tive, engag­ing, and excit­ing. Full-day work­shops and multiple-day insti­tutes allow teach­ers to be exposed to a greater depth of con­tent knowl­edge in addi­tion to being intro­duced to effec­tive teach­ing prac­tices and ideas. All of the hands-on-minds-on sci­ence work­shops are standards-based, using the New World-Class Sci­ence Stan­dards. Addi­tion­ally, all the work­shops empha­size The Prac­tice of Sci­ence, The Char­ac­ter­is­tics of Sci­en­tific Knowl­edge, and The Role of The­o­ries, Laws, Hypothe­ses, and Mod­els.

It’s sug­gested that work­shops be sched­uled for spe­cific audi­ences (K-2, 3–5, 6–8, & 9–12). How­ever, mul­ti­ple grade lev­els can be com­bined to accom­mo­date time and bud­get constraints.

Imple­ment­ing The New World Class Sun­shine State Stan­dards In The Class­room Using Inquiry-Based Learning

Pre­pare Your School and Dis­trict For Suc­cess On The Sci­ence FCAT

Explor­ing The Nature of Science

Explor­ing Earth and Space Sci­ence Concepts

Explor­ing Phys­i­cal Sci­ence Concepts

Explor­ing Life Sci­ence Concepts

Mak­ing The Con­nec­tion: Gen­uine Inte­grated Sci­ence In The Sec­ondary Sci­ence Classroom

Con­nect­ing Sci­ence Across The Disciplines

Teach­ing Sci­ence Through Children’s Lit­er­a­ture (K-2, 3–5, & 6–8)

Teach­ing Sci­ence Through The Lit­er­a­ture of Dr. Seuss

To View And Down­load K-12 Hands-On Sci­ence Teacher Train­ing Work­shops PDF Brochure Click Here.

Sci­ence, Tech­nol­ogy, Engi­neer­ing, and Math (STEM) Work­shops PDF Brochure Click here.

Fam­ily Sci­ence Workshops:

Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski has pro­vided over 100 Fam­ily Sci­ence Work­shops reach­ing over 5,000 fam­i­lies. Fam­ily Sci­ence work­shops allow par­ents and chil­dren to actively explore sci­ence con­cepts together via a hands-on-minds-on inquiry-based approach. Work­shops are 2 hours in length, and avail­able on week­nights and week­ends. In addi­tion, school dis­tricts can hire Diana to con­duct length­ier pro­fes­sional staff devel­op­ment fam­ily sci­ence work­shops to train teach­ers, admin­is­tra­tors, and par­ents to con­duct fam­ily sci­ence work­shops within their own schools and dis­tricts. Fam­ily Sci­ence work­shops are also avail­able for par­ents only if an indi­vid­ual school or dis­trict chooses.

Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski Offers The Fol­low­ing Fam­ily Sci­ence Work­shops:

FCAT Sci­ence

Fam­i­lies Explor­ing The Nature of Mat­ter via Kitchen Chem­istry Explo­rations (ele­men­tary — high school)

Fam­i­lies Inves­ti­gat­ing Phys­i­cal Sci­ence Con­cepts Together (ele­men­tary — high school)

Fam­i­lies Explor­ing Life Sci­ence Con­cepts Together (ele­men­tary — high school)

Fam­i­lies Explor­ing Envi­ron­men­tal Edu­ca­tion Con­cepts Together (ele­men­tary– mid­dle school)

Fam­i­lies Explor­ing Sci­ence Through Lit­er­a­ture Together (elementary-middle school)

Fam­i­lies Inves­ti­gat­ing The Sci­ence In Art Together (elementary)

To View and Down­load Fam­ily Sci­ence Work­shop PDF Brochure Click Here.

Hands-On Sci­ence Pro­grams For Stu­dents:

Dur­ing the past 25 years Diana has con­ducted over 12,000 hands-on sci­ence pro­grams to stu­dents of all ages at both pub­lic and pri­vate schools. The hands-on sci­ence pro­grams are standards-based, engag­ing, and most of all excit­ing. Diana offers over 60 dif­fer­ent hands-on sci­ence pro­grams that cor­re­late to the New World-Class Sci­ence Stan­dards, cov­er­ing all areas of sci­ence from explor­ing The Nature of Mat­ter to explor­ing Life Sci­ence con­cepts. Many of Diana’s clients sched­ule her to con­duct stu­dent pro­grams in addi­tion to the pro­fes­sional staff devel­op­ment work­shops. This enables teach­ers to observe Diana mod­el­ing meth­ods and ideas intro­duced dur­ing the work­shops in a “real class­room set­ting.”

Book­ing Pro­fes­sional Staff Devel­op­ment Work­shops, Keynote Pre­sen­ta­tions, Par­ent­ing Work­shops, and Hands-On Sci­ence Pro­grams For Students:

If your school or dis­trict is inter­ested in sched­ul­ing Diana, please com­plete the infor­ma­tion on the con­tact page. Brochures are avail­able with com­plete details of all the con­sult­ing ser­vices, includ­ing fees. You can view and down­load brochures on this page, or email Diana directly @ drdianascience@bellsouth.net to request a brochure (avail­able as PDF or mail).