January 20, 2020
At the invitation of Agastya International Foundation in India, Katherine Blanchard and Amy D'Amico from Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC), Washington DC, conducted a workshop in India on project-based learning. The Master Teachers who attended the training reach over 167,000 students and spent 1 week enacting community investigations taken from the "Smithsonian Science for Global Goals" "Mosquito!" module under a framework aligned with UN SDGs. Teacher trainers also learned about the "Smithsonian Science for the Classroom" curriculum, aligned with NGSS. The goal of the experience was to encourage long-term engagement between the two organizations and impact hundreds of thousands of students in India.