edted@alaskapacific.edu

Ted Munsch is now Professor Emeritus at Alaska Pacific University, with retirement in place for the end of June, 2010. He earned his B.S. in Elementary Education at Montana State University-Billings and his Ph.D. in Education at the University of Idaho. Ted started teaching at Alaska Pacific in 1995. His professional credentials include K-8 Teacher Certification in Alaska, serving as a presenter for the National Science Teachers Association, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia. He recently served as the Alaska Science Teacher Association Treasurer and on the Alaska Council of Teachers of Mathematics Board. When not teaching or lecturing, Ted enjoys golfing, fishing and hiking.

These kind words were part of the graduation ceremony program where his Professor Emeritus status was announced. THANK YOU APU!

For fifteen years Dr. Theodore Munsch has achieved high levels of excellence in the development of curriculum, classroom teaching, and the advising and mentoring of students—both undergraduate and graduate--in Alaska Pacific University’s Education programs. He not only brought high levels of expertise into the Education Department’s methods courses for science and mathematics but developed and taught courses for APU’s Environmental Science Department as well. Students working under Professor Munsch have benefitted from his successful efforts to secure and administer more than $500,000 in grants which funded the dissemination of NASA materials to rural Alaska and provided opportunities for APU’s undergraduate and graduate pre-service teachers to travel annually to rural areas for practicum sites. Dr. Munsch served for ten years as Department Chair or Graduate Program Director. In 2009 the Alaska Science Teachers Association awarded him the Emma Walton Distinguished Service Award.

These are some projects in which I have been involved:

The Alaska Science Center         Project Lift-Off (1998)            Twin Hills Practicum       

Trick or Treat Town (1999)                SMS - Kenai Fjords Science Explorer Tour

  Rural Practicum (2001)       Rural Practicum 2002                      Rural Practicum 2003

These are examples of some of the things we do in SC100...

SC100 Field Trip #1        Models of Atoms        Earth Systems Presentations

 Spring '99 Atom Models          Spring '99 Classification Exercise        Spring '99 Earth Systems Activities

Fall '99 E. coli Study     Fall '99 DNA Models     Fall '99 Chips         Fall '99 Fossils

Fall '99 Human Impact Studies       Fall '99 Personal Investigations

YOU GAVE ME WHAT???

Spring 2000 - Crater Lab          Spring 2000 - DNA Murder Mystery Lab

Science Explorer Field Trip       Trick or Treat Town Volunteers

What's Living in Your Shower?           The SC100 Home Page

Elementary Classroom Fun   

 Australian Rural School Visits  

The Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia

USAFA Then and Almost Now

Fire in Alaska Training           The Alaska Science Teachers Association  

Beyond the Line                  Ode to Dickinson, ND        The Imagiarium

NASA Old & New             Inquiry Science Online: Is It for Everyone?