PA Environment Digest

Share this:

PA Sea Grant Looking For PA Educators To Participate In Great Lakes Educator Program

The Center for Great Lakes Literacy Educator Program for formal and informal educators of students in grades 4-12 is looking for more Pennsylvania teachers to participate in the program. The deadline to apply is May 15.

This year the program will have a dual focus: Resilience: Disease, Food and Weather and Engaging your students in Citizen Science

The topic of ‘resilience’ allows teachers and students to address climate change-related topics in manageable chunks that are directly applicable to them and where they live. We will discuss local examples for each of these topics, as well as the science behind them.

Citizen science engages citizens in data gathering that informs local, regional, national or international efforts to understand the natural world.

The Program will introduce educators to a wide variety of resources that they can use in their formal or informal learning situation as well as demonstrate easy projects teachers can do with students such as building a ‘bee hotel’ to increase habitat for pollinators.

A June 26 workshop will focus on lab and field experiences.

An October 19 workshop will include both field experiences and classroom resources.

Both workshops will be hands-on. Educators will leave these workshops with the confidence to discuss the topics and perform the activities we cover with their students. Attendance at both workshops is required.

Participation in the International Coastal Cleanup is required along with the development of a second student-driven stewardship project.

Participation in this yearlong project comes with $400 in travel/stipend; $400 in support for student field and lab activities; $150 in project supplies for your students’ second stewardship project; and an opportunity to apply for a $250 mini-research grant.

Click Here for a flyer on the Program and the application. Click Here to watch a video presentation on the Program.

For more information on programs, initiatives and other upcoming events, visit the PA Sea Grant Program website.

NewsClips:

Susquehanna U. Freshwater Research Institute Receives $950,000 R.K. Mellon Grant

Marcus Schneck: Cicada Emergency Draws Near In Part Of Pennsylvania

Bob Frye: Emergence Of Cicadas Should Produce Fantastic Fishing

Bob Frye: Leave Wildlife Babies In The Wild This Spring

Fishing Teaches Lessons, Builds Bridges At Valley High School In New Kensington

How The Bumble Bee Got Its Stripes

Van Gogh In Bloom Is Summer Show At Phipps Conservatory In Pittsburgh

Marcus Schneck: Why Is This Month’s Full Moon A Blue Flower Moon?

Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Water Partnership Education Van Gets Makeover For Drinking Water Week