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Course Detail: C_SHARINGNATURE - Sharing Nature: An Educator's Week
Sharing Nature: An Educator's Week is the only residential session offered at the Audubon Camp which is specifically for working teachers, educators, and youth leaders, and it is designed to help create a greater awareness of ecology, science, natural history, and the interdependence of all life. (All of the other adult programs at camp are bird-oriented.) We offer this program because it is one of National Audubon
Society's highest priorities to educate the public and school children about the natural world and the great importance of human stewardship for planet earth.
During the session, we offer a wide variety of field-based explorations and workshops, including forest, pond, bog, and inter-tidal ecology; ocean-going boat trips to see marine mammals and seabirds; geology walks; bird-watching and bird natural history; astronomy; art, sketching and journal making; understanding photography and use of photographic devices such as phones and cameras, and file-keeping of photographic images; use of music in teaching science; etc.
Our goals are to expose participants to a large variety of habitats and organisms and to show them how these systems work, and also how to apply what they're learning to developing lesson plans and activities for their own classrooms, back home. We want to make science and ecology and natural history fun, exciting, and full of wonder while helping teachers find ways to bring this excitement and awareness and knowledge back to their institutions and students so that we create a "culture of conservation" and an enlightened population.
