Sanilac County
Science and Math Center
Brown City
Carsonville-Port Sanilac
Croswell-Lexington
Deckerville
Marlette
Peck
Sandusky
Our Mission
“The mission of the
Sanilac County Science and
Mathematics Center is to
provide leadership,
programs, and services to
improve interest,
involvement, and
achievement
in mathematics,
science and
technology.”
OurDEMOGRAPHICS
Demographics
The SCSMC is located in a 1,000
square mile area in the Thumb of
Michigan. Sanilac County is
geographically the largest county in
the lower peninsula.
The SCSMC is a member of the
Michigan Mathematics and Science
Centers Network and the National
Consortium for Specialized
Secondary Schools of Mathematics,
Science and Technology.
Our Services
Leadership
 Student Services
 Professional
Development
 Curriculum Support
 Resource
Clearinghouse
 Community
Involvement
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LEADERSHIP
“Great schools are built by people,
people who care and who act…
The secret ingredient is human, not
electronic.”
Leadership
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Edited and distributed ABC in Science News
Science Specialist assisted Croswell-Lexington
Schools with Technology Literacy Challenge Grant
Science Instructor served on Regional Director’s
Executive Council for National Junior Science and
Humanities Symposium
Science Specialist served on Blue Water Curriculum
Council
Director served on SISD Strategic Planning
Steering Committee
Director and Science Specialist served
on Staff Development Action Team
Student Services
“The yardstick is whether
students…can understand as
well as memorize, apply as
well as state, imagine as well
as copy, solve problems rather
than shrug them off, and make themselves
felt in a society that seems to be in trouble
for lack of these
capacities.”
Harriet Tyson
Science Education Guidebook
Student Service
ABC in Science K-7 Inquiry-based Kit Program
provided 545 hands-on science kits to
elementary classrooms and offered a Science
Specialist who taught 140 active lessons for:
 Kindergarten
Giant Pumpkin Visit
 First Grade Giant Teeter-Totter Visit
 Second Grade Papermaking Visit
 Third Grade Ice Cream Making Visit
 Fourth Grade Groundwater Visit
 Fifth Grade Matter Visit
“Doing experiments
helps me to
remember and
teaches me to figure
out problems.”
3rd Grade Student
Student Services
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High School Accelerated Program
Astronomy Night
Science/Math Expo with 67 student research projects
E.A.R.T.H. Center Mammalian Study
E.A.R.T.H. Center Fish and Related Aquatic Life Project
Southeastern Michigan Junior Science and Humanities
Symposium, Wayne State University
Detroit Medical Center Field Trip
NASA Symposium, SanDiego, CA
Science/Math Recognition Night
Professional Development
“You can’t have a learning society without
learning students, and you can’t have learning
students without learning teachers.” Fullan (1993)
Professional Development
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Conducted ABC in Science workshops
New Teacher kit workshops
Preparing for Science MEAP Investigations
Unit Revision Workshops
 Provided workshops for Sanilac County educators
and community environmental educators
Science Teacher Leader Program
Websites for Teachers
Instructional Technology
Rockets for Schools
Curriculum Support
“Curriculum planning must be an
integral part of the continuous school
improvement process.”
Science Education Guidebook
Curriculum Support
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Sanilac ISD Science Specialist and Croswell-Lexington
Schools revised ABC in Science kits:
Kindergarten Animals
First Grade Measurement, Force, and Simple Machines
Second Grade Sound and Light
Third Grade Motions, Forces, and Simple Machines
Fourth Grade Detective Moolock (Energy Unit)
Support of MASER regional curriculum team
Support of Curriculum Mapping Process
Resource Clearinghouse
“If you want to encourage
elementary school teachers to
teach science through inquiry, you
have to provide them with the right
stuff at the right time. You have to
give teachers a deal they can’t
refuse.”
Larry Small, Science Materials Support
(1992)
Resource Clearing House
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Expanded curriculum materials enhance
ABC in Science kits
Provide science kits to support inquiry-based
science in grades K-7
Monitor ABC in Science kit distribution center to
store, refurbish and distribute science kits.
COMMUNITY
INVOLVEMENT
“Parents, other community
members, administrators,
students and teachers all need
to work together toward [a
common] vision of scientific
literacy.
Science Education Guidebook
Community Involvement
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Lake Huron Water Quality Study
Conducted by SCSMC students in high school
accelerated program and submitted to DNR
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Showcase Night
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Astronomy Night
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Science/Math EXPO Night
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