The fee for the course, which includes lectures and hands-on lessons, is $80.
But because of both city and federal technology grants, the school was flush with innovative programming, laptops, iPads and a state-of-the-art hydroponic greenhouse, where students grow lettuce and get hands-on lessons about plant life.
Children attending the private Pear Tree Point School (which serves prekindergarten through fifth grade) regularly troop around the peninsula for hands-on lessons in marine science and local history.
Along the way, many are given hands-on lessons in how mathematics, physics and computer programming can be useful and practical, said Joel Carter, vice president for marketing at Innovation First, a robotics company in Greenville, Tex.
FOR the Noble family of Franklin Square, summer vacation means lazy days at the neighborhood pool, leisurely trips in their boat and hands-on lessons in sharing for their three young children.
At the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, students can get hands-on lessons about the impact of treatment costs on patients by volunteering Saturdays at the East Harlem Health Outreach Program, a student-run free clinic for uninsured residents of a low-income neighborhood nearby.
I was a teacher myself so I didn't challenge her, I just said, 'What are you going to do to help him?' " In the elementary grades at their suburban Baltimore school, Ms. Phelps said, Michael excelled in things he loved — gym and hands-on lessons, like science experiments.
Following the completion of the consultancy project, the facilities have been used for hands-on lessons on hydraulics.
She described the double whammy of trying to keep materials in stock for hands-on lessons in meteorology, astronomy, geology, and the other topics that she covers at the same time class sizes are increasing.
After 10 years of testing and fine-tuning involving schools throughout Brazil and hundreds of education professionals, CTC offers a series of hands-on lessons about the natural world that promote creative thinking, integrated multi-discipline learning, and the growth of self-esteem (Fig. 2).
We got hands-on lessons in spice cooking with Cindy Pawlcyn, former chef at Mustards Grill in the Napa Valley and San Francisco's Fog City Diner (and owner of Miramonte, also in the Valley), plus a lobster lunch with Ken Frank, who became one of the country's top chefs at age 25 with restaurant La Toque in Los Angeles (now relocated to the Napa town of Rutherford).
