This 5-day workshop will provide hands-on experiential learning to K-8th grade teachers to expand their knowledge and experience about watersheds. Herring Gut Learning Center staff will work with program participants on activities to develop a project-based approach to watershed education. In addition, teachers will learn about the connection between the upland watershed areas to downriver estuaries and the ocean that benefits both the freshwater and marine environments.

 

Participants will be given unique up-close opportunities to see the conditions and downriver impacts of contaminated/changing water flowing into the Muscongus Bay. These experiences are meant to help the educator conduct meaningful student lessons that are field-based, student-driven, and in a collaborative fashion, that mirrors the work of scientists. The environment is the primary classroom for this investigative work: collecting data, learning how to look for patterns and changes in the data, making logical conclusions based on data, answering/refining their investigative question and/or research plan; and to understand what the data indicates for the health of the watershed over time.

 

For more information about this course, please refer to this web link:

https://herringgutlearningcenter.org/index.php/for-educators-asdf/

 

Instructor Names: Georgie Burruss, Patrick Burnham, Kathy Barker

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