About Paula Sincero, Director of Education
Paula Sincero has more than 12 years experience developing award-winning print and on-line curricula and interactives for K-12 educational publishers, museums, and educational television. She innovatively connects learning in museums, schools and homes by aligning exciting ideas with the national learning standards. Paula is currently our lead developer for a distance learning habitat conservation project for the Smithsonian's National Zoo. She brings her creative vision and hands-on experience along with strong project management, communication, and research skills. Recognition for her work includes two Emmy® nominations and four first place USDLA and Telecon national distance learning awards, among others.
Paula's Science, History, and Social Science Projects:
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Conservation Central
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Conservation Central is the Smithsonian National Zoo's online distance learning habitat conservation education program that includes an interactive middle school curriculum (aligned with both national sciene and social studies standards), family learning activities, and eight Flash-based interactives that provide students and families with hands-on tools to help conserve habitats, and the species that depend on them, locally, nationally, and globally. |
| History Is In the Making: Preserving and Interpreting Community Stories
Students come to see themselves as makers and shapers of history.
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Through the process of oral history, students explore how uncovering, telling, eliciting, interpreting, and shaping stories both preserves local history and culture, and imparts the skills involved in relating respectfully across differences. |
| Colonial Williamsburg
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Via an electronic fieldtrip, students are linked to the largest living history museum in the United States and are invited to meet and talk with some of the people of the eighteenth century who helped shape our nation. |
| Memories, Voices and Choices: Lessons Learned from the Holocaust & Global Genocides
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Through the powerful testimony of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissman Klein and Holocaust experts including Dr. Michael Berenbaum (Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation), and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, we examine the history and lessons learned and educate about hate and global genocides today. |
| Rocky Times: Real Life in the Stone Age
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In collaboration with Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Amercian Museum of Natural History, this inquiry-based exploration of life in the Stone Age encourages students to imagine life without metal, without farms to raise food, and without permanent homes. Students challenge preconceptions, uncover evidence and create their own hypotheses. As a guiding question, we ask: "What makes us human?" Each program addresses suggested evidence of our humanity: evolution and physiology, tools and technology, scavenging vs. hunting and cooperative and social behavior, and art/spirituality (creativity and the imagination).
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| Writing Women In
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Students learn about the diverse contributions of lesser-known local and national women who have helped shape local, national, and world history. Collaborations with The Boston Women's History Trail and the National Women's History Project enriched this project. Through a culminating project, students write women back into the curriculum, celebrating the courageous leaps and the foundation-building small steps that women have made and continue to make.
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| Digging History
Wight Farm Homestead |
Through modeling a successful interdisciplinary middle school project, focusing on the Wight Farm Homestead, teachers learn how to use archaeology as a tool to engage students in local history. |
Learn about Paula's other projects. Contact her at Paula@bradlarson.com