The new age of teaching science

Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Area science teachers are back in school, putting in two days of learning. They're attending a workshop at NDSCS Science Center in Fargo, WDAY 6 Reporter Todd Kurtz takes a look at the new age of teaching science and how it'll help their students in the fall.

Teachers are now the students. It's a workshop to help educators with new ideas for classroom experiments.

This microscope is probably a little more powerful than what you looked through in lab, it can zoom in on things students may find more interesting than molecule samples, and they’re looking at the wing of a mosquito.

Sara Forness is learning about wind and solar energy. She says hands on experiments are the best way to keep peoples interest.

Teachers can check out anything their own school doesn't have, they can even bring their classes into this science center.

The center is hoping teachers will use this equipment in their classroom, this FTIR machine reads the chemical structure of a sample, Mrs. Forness thinks it could benefit an experiment she does every year.

Forness says kids think science has already been done, if that's true they're in for a big surprise when these teachers step into the room next year.

The 21 teachers that attended received a stipend from a federal grant for the workshop.