SLEUTh Academy

SLEUTH Academy is an inquiry based science curriculum for various age groups. All activities are tied to specific science standards and benchmarks. Assessment questions are included with each activity with additional assessment possibilities available on the www.sleuthacademy.org web site. The SLEUTH Academy curriculum is developed so that even the youngest of scientist can develop a question that can be answered by the experiment. Most of the experiments are all short – with the outcome realized easily within a thirty-sixty minute science period. Extended activities that can easily be adopted to science-fair level work are linked via the www.sleuthacademy.org web site. The curriculum is interactive, integrated and easily adapted as a supplement to any adopted science textbook. The activities are all broken down into the SLEUTH acronym enforcing the scientific method: SEEK, LEARN, EXPERIMENT, UNDERSTAND, and THINK. Reading skills are integrated within the activities. The teacher is guided by an icon to guide them where science skills link to reading skills (e.g., cause and effect). The SLEUTH Academy concept for learning will be extended for all age groups and into activity based science non-fiction chapter books that will introduce students to “real-world” scientific problems they can solve by applying the SLEUTH methods.

Who is SLEUTh Academy:

SLEUTh Academy was founded by Lisa Ventry Milenkovic, Ph.D. Dr. Milenkovic has a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry with over 20 years of environmental, instrumental analysis and laboratory management experience. After many years as a volunteer science educator and science fair judge, Dr. Milenkovic realized a need for a curriculum that was less of a cookbook approach and more based on inquiry and exploration. Her goal is to use fun science activities to not only train the young scientist to become a scientist but more importantly to reach the non-scientific student and educate them to become part of the scientifically literate public. Dr. Milenkovic is currently the Science Resource Teacher at Eagle Point Elementary, Weston, FL (Broward County).
email: Dr. Lisa Ventry Milenkovic