This project brings together community service learning and Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) citizen science projects. We will work with five states (ME, MA, CT, VT and NY) on developing teams of teacher leaders who will implement in-depth, 6 week long environmental science projects with their students.

Creating a Network of Educators to Communicate about Teaching Math (CNECT – Math) involves partnerships among the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance (MMSA), University of Maine at Farmington (UMF), Maine Vocational Region schools, and several middle and high schools. The sessions are used to make connections among content knowledge, standards, research, and classroom practice.

Early Mathematical Thinking Enhancement Project (EMTEP) is a continuation of Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance (MMSA)’s long-standing Early Mathematical Thinking (EMT) Project. EMT consists of a set of diagnostic assessment tools intended as a formative assessment strategy to uncover students’ current level of thinking in mathematics and guide instruction in grades K-4.

The purpose of the Governor’s Academy is to build the leadership capacity of Maine schools in science and mathematics. The Academy offers a rigorous two year program of professional development to prepare exemplary teachers to step into roles that require new understandings and increased knowledge of research-based science and mathematics education, staff development, and policy issues.

Citizen Science in the Classroom (CSIC) consists of two strands:  PowerSleuth Meets PowerMeter and Vital Signs invasive species. In both strands, 7th and 8th grade students conduct ongoing scientific research using unique tools and with an emphasis on data. Using data from these tools, students design and carry out investigations and use their findings to make recommendations, based on evidence, for reducing consumption to homeowners.

The  goal of Earth as a System is Essential: Seasons and the Seas (EaSiE) is to transform the traditional middle school study of seasons and weather into an exploration of the dynamic interactions between Earth’s land, oceans, atmosphere and living world.