California Science Center
California Science Center
California Science Center is conveniently located in the Exposition Park near downtown Los Angeles. Is is said to be the West Coast largest hands-on science center! Imagine an elementary school with all of the resources a teacher or parent could ever want. It's located near world-class museums, a major university and a state-of-the-art teacher professional development center. The school features an integrated curriculum emphasizing science, mathematics and technology. Its teachers are fully credentialed with a demonstrated ability to make science and math engaging and accessible to their students. And it's not a magnet school but, rather, a neighborhood school for underserved groups of children and their parents. While such a school seems like a dream, it is a dream that has become reality in South Los Angeles.
While on a One Day Tour at California's Science Center one will learn that the school opened for the first day of classes on September 9, 2004, which means that it just celebrated its' one year anniversary. In preparation, the school administration and faculty hosted a gala Ribbon Cutting ceremony and two Parent Orientations to disseminate information about school procedures, uniforms and school expectations. The events were held in the Big Lab of the adjacent Wallis Annenberg Building for Science Learning and Innovation.
On a California Science Center One Day Tour, you will see that the building of the Science Center School represents a crucial step in its 25-year master plan. The construction site is part of the Science Center complex and includes a new building to house most of the school's classrooms and the newly renovated Wallis Annenberg Building for Science Learning and Innovation. The Wallis Annenberg Building houses six classrooms, administrative offices, a multi-purpose room and the school library.
In addition, the Wallis Annenberg building includes over 80,000 square feet for the Science Center's education division, the Amgen Center for Science Learning. This means that the Science Center School is directly adjacent to cutting edge facilities that will house many of the Science Center's programs including community programs, summer science camp, camp-ins and a burgeoning teacher professional development program.
California Science Center is conveniently located in the Exposition Park near downtown Los Angeles. Is is said to be the West Coast largest hands-on science center! Imagine an elementary school with all of the resources a teacher or parent could ever want. It's located near world-class museums, a major university and a state-of-the-art teacher professional development center. The school features an integrated curriculum emphasizing science, mathematics and technology. Its teachers are fully credentialed with a demonstrated ability to make science and math engaging and accessible to their students. And it's not a magnet school but, rather, a neighborhood school for underserved groups of children and their parents. While such a school seems like a dream, it is a dream that has become reality in South Los Angeles.
While on a One Day Tour at California's Science Center one will learn that the school opened for the first day of classes on September 9, 2004, which means that it just celebrated its' one year anniversary. In preparation, the school administration and faculty hosted a gala Ribbon Cutting ceremony and two Parent Orientations to disseminate information about school procedures, uniforms and school expectations. The events were held in the Big Lab of the adjacent Wallis Annenberg Building for Science Learning and Innovation.
On a California Science Center One Day Tour, you will see that the building of the Science Center School represents a crucial step in its 25-year master plan. The construction site is part of the Science Center complex and includes a new building to house most of the school's classrooms and the newly renovated Wallis Annenberg Building for Science Learning and Innovation. The Wallis Annenberg Building houses six classrooms, administrative offices, a multi-purpose room and the school library.
In addition, the Wallis Annenberg building includes over 80,000 square feet for the Science Center's education division, the Amgen Center for Science Learning. This means that the Science Center School is directly adjacent to cutting edge facilities that will house many of the Science Center's programs including community programs, summer science camp, camp-ins and a burgeoning teacher professional development program.
