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| NY Sea Grant Coastal Education Specialist Helen Domske (right) explains how to recognize the difference between quagga and zebra mussels to teachers Kim Ferguson of Iroquois Central School, Elma, NY; John Pennella of Clarence High School, Clarence, NY; and Kristin Sheehan of Pulaski Community Schools, Pulaski, NY, on a teacher training field trip to Black Pond Wildlife Management Area. Photo: Paul Focazio/NY Sea Grant |
Oswego, NY - Teachers and watershed educators are being
invited to register for the July 23-26, 21012 Great Lakes Lake Ontario Field
Experiences Workshop that also includes learning opportunities on Oneida Lake.
New York Sea Grant Coastal Education Specialist Helen
Domske, an award-winning instructor who has trained hundreds of teachers and
youth educators about the Great Lakes ecosystem, leads the four-day workshop.
Participants in past summer workshops have represented schools and youth
programs from across New York State and other states.
“The workshop agenda is designed to provide teachers with
new ways of inspiring students with meaningful watershed educational experiences.
This summer program offers those experiences to the teachers themselves using
five curricula developed by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration),” Domske says.
The five curricula cover a learning cycle with modules
titled Excite, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate and use the STEM:
science, technology, engineering and math educational method.
Participants will have the opportunity to learn from Cornell
University researchers, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
(NYSDEC) and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) biologists, and New York Sea Grant
Dune Specialist Mary Penney.
Workshop venues include SUNY Oswego, the H. Lee White Marine
Museum and USGS Lake Ontario Biological Station in Oswego; the Cornell
University Biological Field Station in Bridgeport; the NYSDEC Salmon River Fish
Hatchery in Altmar, and the Eastern Lake Ontario Dunes and Wetlands Area.
Participating teachers will receive a stipend to develop a
Community Stewardship Project.
“Our studies will be place-based and focused on
locally-relevant issues that will help the teachers develop Great Lakes
literacy and stewardship projects for their own specific teaching areas.
Ultimately, the goal is to develop citizens engaged in practices that value and
promote a sustainable environment,” Domske adds.
One workshop participant whose students complete an
exemplary Community Stewardship Project will be selected to co-present at the
Science Teachers Association of New York State annual conference.
For workshop details and registration application, contact
New York Sea Grant at 315-312-3042, dgw9@cornell.edu, www.nyseagrant.org/cyeducation.
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Sea Grant (NYSG), a cooperative program of Cornell University and the State
University of New York is one of 32 university-based programs under the
National Sea Grant College Program (NSGCP) of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Through its statewide network of integrated
services, NYSG has been promoting coastal vitality, environmental
sustainability, and citizen awareness about the State’s marine and Great Lakes
resources since 1971. For updates on New York Sea Grant activities, www.nyseagrant.org has RSS, Facebook,
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