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	American Folk Art Teachers examine American history and culture through folk art, from portraits and landscape paintings to whirligigs and weather vanes. Teachers visit folk art exhibitions and learn how to create folk art to display in a classroom or school museum exhibit about New York and United States history.
	Archeology: Hands-on History Teachers learn a wide range of archaeological principles, from plotting and graphing to stratigraphy and situ. They use primary sources including maps and other original documents to create dig boxes before going on an actual dig. Teachers also learn how to use mathematics to measure and calculate area; to tabulate, represent, and analyze their data; to work with and create a variety of charts and graphic organizers; and to record their finds using scientific and descriptive writing.
	Building A Classroom Museum Teachers learn how to create museum exhibits with their students including art objects, facsimiles of artifacts, dioramas, diagrams, and labels. The exhibit focuses on a specific culture, time period, or historical figure.
	Creative Problem Solving This workshop demonstrates how teachers can turn their students into expert problem solvers by teaching them to distinguish between fact and interpretation. This workshop, which can be adapted to any academic subject area, shows teachers how to help their students recognize important key words and choose the necessary facts and interpretations to solve problems.
	Cultures Reflected Through Music A Leap musician introduces teachers to the music of various cultures and demonstrates how to create and play related musical instruments as a means of developing multicultural appreciation and mathematics skills.
	Customized Staff Development Workshops Leap develops customized staff development workshops to address your needs. The workshops can be based on any program described in this catalog and all use a hands-on, active learning approach. Leap professional development workshops can take place during the day, after-school or at retreats. Additionally, the workshops can be conducted as a single session or as an extended series.
	Environmental Education Through Site Analysis A Leap science expert demonstrates hands-on, discovery-based teaching methods by leading an environmental study of an urban lot, public park, lawn, or schoolyard. Teachers learn interesting and informative experiments that are fun and easy to do with students of all ages. This field study project covers many scientific concepts such as observation and inference, classification, energy and food webs, biogeochemical cycles, etc.