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Inventory and Assessment of K-12 and Professional Teacher Development Programs in the National Estuarine Research Reserve System
G. APPENDIX 1: NATIONAL AND LOCAL COMPARATIVE PROGRAMS National Comparative Programs This is a list of national curriculums and programs that we looked at for the study, each program has a corresponding website.
These are NERRS programs that we included in this portion of the study Estuary Live—Coordinated by Susan Lovelace (EC at North Carolina NERR) Estuary Live is a live video streaming field trip to various estuaries around the country. Students and classes can register to view the broadcast over the Internet and submit questions to be asked live during the broadcasts. Participating Reserves include North Carolina, Jacques Cousteau, and South Slough. Estuary Net—Estuary Net is a high school water quality monitoring program first implemented by the NERRS several years ago; the program has lost funding, but was important to the educational programming at the North Inlet-Winyah NERR, and they have modified it somewhat and still use classroom, field/hands-on, and follow-up activities with several area high schools. The reserve staff provides teachers with curriculum and sampling equipment, they visit classrooms for presentations on water quality issues, teach students to use test equipment in the lab and in the field and they select sample sites to monitor and then submit their findings to the Reserve. MARE (Marine Activities Resources and Education)—MARE is an interdisciplinary K-8 whole school change program that engages teachers, students, parents, administrators, and the community to transform elementary and middle schools into dynamic laboratories for the study of the ocean. MARE is a supplemental curriculum, designed to enrich science instruction for all students while promoting equity, language acquisition and academic excellence among English language learners. The MARE curriculum focuses each grade level on a different ocean habitat. Individual teachers at MARE schools use the thematic curriculum at their own pace throughout the year as a vehicle to coordinate and integrate their science instruction. At each grade level, the MARE habitat curriculum provides a minimum of 10 weeks worth of inquiry-based hands-on activities, covering an integrated treatment of earth & physical science, biology, environmental issues, mathematics, language arts/literature, social studies, art, music and drama. Participating Reserves include Jacques Cousteau and South Slough. Local Comparative Programs (listed by State) ALASKA Organization: Pratt Museum Program: Various Programs Age Level: Junior High and High School Website: www.prattmuseum.org/programs Offers various programs including: The Sperm Whale Project Kachemak Bay Discovery ALABAMA Organization: Dauphin Island Sea Lab Program: Discovery Hall Programs Age Level: High School & PTD Website: dhp.disl.org/DHP.html Programs include Touch Lab, Beach Walk and Maritime Forest, Salt Marsh History and Hurricanes, Coastal Oceanography, Research Vessel – Boat Excursion, Productive Plankton, and Summer Course in marine science for high school students. Teacher Training Workshops include Coastal Connections – Linking watersheds to the Gulf of Mexico, Grasses, Groupers and Gastropods, Beaches, Birds and Barrier Islands, World of Water for Teachers, Belize Teachers Workshop in Tropical Marine Biology, and Exploring the Florida Keys. CALIFORNIA Organization: Green Briar Nature Center Program: Various Programs Age Level: All ages Website: www.thorntonburgess.org/Education%20Department.htm Classes taught by Society Naturalists include Lessons in Field Ecology, Discovering Nature, Live Animal Story times, Coastal Rail Explorations, and Burgess Adventures in Nature Rental Kits. Organization: Monterey Bay Aquarium Program: School field trips and Teacher Programs Age Level: K-12 and PTD Website: www.mbayaq.org/lc/teachers_place A variety of programs include School Field Trips, Splash Zone, Flippers, Flukes & Fun, Discovery Lab Explorations, Discovery Lab Mysteries, Discovery Lab High School, Discovery Lab Multi-Age, Ocean Explorers – Sea Stars, and Ocean Explorers – Shark’s Lunch Box. Teacher Programs include Underwater Robotics Workshop, Field Trip Planning Workshop, Underwater Robotics Wiring Workshop, New Teacher Workshop, and Inquiry at Sandy Beach Simulation Workshop. Organization: San Diego Natural History Museum / PROBEA Program: The Making of a Naturalist Age Level: Grades 4-10 Website: www.sdnhm.org/education/binational The Making of a Naturalist employs a unique mind-map model of the ecosystem that students can apply to any setting. They learn about the components of an ecosystem and how they are related through feedback loops. Watershed ecology is presented and, through mapping activities, students learn about their watershed and their place in it. These materials, suitable for use in grades 4-10, also guide students as they observe their watershed's ecosystems firsthand. Activities focus on plants, pollination, insects, and birds. A section on the urban environment teaches students to value their own "turf," as well as natural settings. The curriculum is available in Spanish, as well as English. Organization: Save the Bay, San Francisco Bay Program: Canoes in Sloughs and Teacher Institutes Age Level: 6-12 and PTD Website: www.savesfbay.org/teaching.html 6-12:Save The Bay teaches young people about the Bay-Delta so they appreciate and protect our waterways and wetlands. The primary education program for young people is Canoes in Sloughs. Canoes in Sloughs is an innovative, experiential program that places students from 6th to 12th grade in canoes to explore the estuary ecosystem up close. PTD: During these Institutes, participants will discover how to integrate watershed concepts and San Francisco Bay curriculum into their teaching. Each day is filled with on-the-water experiences, expert speakers, and hands-on activities. The program also introduces educators to habitat restoration and ways of incorporating service learning projects into their work. Participants will have many opportunities to network with other Bay Area educators and receive a wealth of resource materials. Organization: Seymour Marine Discovery Center Program: Learning Programs, K-12 Teacher Training Age Level: K-12 Website: www2.ucsc.edu/seymourcenter/lp-school.html Marine Science Field Trips for K-12 School Groups: Discover how scientists think and work. Investigate the incredible creatures inhabiting Monterey Bay. Experience our gigantic blue whale skeleton Organization: USFWS / City of Chula Vista Nature Center Program: Sweetwater Safari Age Level: Not Specified Website: www.chulavistanaturecenter.org/Educational/default.asp In partnership with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Chevron, and the San Diego Zoo, a backpack program called Sweetwater Safari is offered to teachers who have already brought students to the Nature Center. In this hands-on program, students take backpacks containing binoculars, mini-microscopes, and other materials to discover plankton, birds, plants and animal tracks on the trails of the Sweetwater Marsh National Wildlife Refuge. DELAWARE Organization: Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife Aquatic Resources Education Center Program: Various Programs Age Level: K-12 and PTD Website: www.dnrec.state.de.us/fw/are.htm A variety of facilities and field programs includes Wetland Activities for Delaware Educators, Field & Classroom Approaches to Wetlands Education, Fish Banks, PTD for Delaware Eco-Explorers, Delaware Adopt-A-Wetland, Horseshoe Crabs in the Classroom, NatureLink, Youth Fishing, Junior Duck Stamp Program, and other outdoor programs. Organization: Delaware State Parks Program: Various Programs Age Level: All ages Website: www.destateparks.com/Activities/eeprograms/EEPI.asp Delaware State Parks offer a variety of environmental education programs specifically designed for students, scouts, adult groups, homeschoolers and other organized groups. FLORIDA Organization: Conservancy of Southwest Florida Program: Environmental Education Age Level: Grade 3-5 Website: www.conservancy.org The Environmental Education Division fosters conservation awareness through school programs, field trips, special events and an annual summer camp program. Organization: Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, National Audubon Society Program: Various Programs Age Level: All ages Website: www.audubon.org/local/sanctuary/corkscrew A variety of programs includes Insect Adventure, Water and Wetlands, A Swamp in Your Backyard, and a Guided Boardwalk Program. Organization: Florida State University Program: Saturday at Sea Age Level: Not available Website: bio.fsu.edu/eeo/sats.html Designed to introduce students to the rich variety of marine creatures of the Gulf of Mexico by hands-on experience and study. The program is aimed to initiate an understanding of the biological relationships these sea creatures have to each other and to their physical environment. The program includes a slide presentation, a collecting trip to sample marine invertebrates and fishes by trawl net and beach seine, and a guided natural history field trip in the salt marsh. Organization: Pelotes Island Nature Preserve Program: Various Programs Age Level: PTD and K-12 Website: pelotes.jea.com Teacher Workshops include Florida Wildlife, Project Learning Tree, Project WET, Project WILD and Aquatic WILD, Schoolyard Ecosystems, Orienteering, Schoolyard Wildlife, and Timucua Indians. School Programs include History, Animals, Plants, Science & Skills, Plant Adaptations, Survivor Island, Solar Science, Florida Archaeology, and Marine Science and the Salt Marsh. GEORGIA Organization: Jekyll Island 4-H Center Program: Classes for teacher led student groups Age Level: Not Specified Website: georgia4horg.caes.uga.edu/public/facilities/jekyll/teacher/ee-welcome.htm Welcome to our environmental education program. We have been sharing our barrier island environment with students since 1987. The program currently serves over 10,000 students annually. Our focus is barrier island ecology. Utilizing a multi-disciplinary approach, our participants are given the opportunity expand to their knowledge of, and experience in beach, marsh and forest environments. Organization: Oatland Island Educational Center Program: Various Programs Age Level: Pre K and K-5 and PTD Website: www.oatlandisland.org More than forty programs are available to students ranging from an hour-long barn animal program for kindergarten students to programs where older students study endangered species, organism classification, participate in team building activities and camp overnight. Education programs address defined objectives and are grade level specific to avoid duplication for students. MASSACHUSETTS Organization: Cape Cod National Seashore Program: Classroom and Onsite Lesson Plans Age Level: Grade 4-12 Website: www.nps.gov/caco/education/index.html The National Park Service has prepared a series of lesson plans, which cover a variety of topics useful in the classroom and on site at Cape Cod National Seashore. These plans provide background information, student reading materials, and on site and off site activities. Groups visiting Cape Cod National Seashore for any time period, ranging from a day to a week will find these materials useful. MARYLAND Organization: MD Department of Natural Resources Program: Various Programs Age Level: K-12 and PTD Website: www.dnr.state.md.us/education A variety of K-8 programs includes The Bay Game, Bay Grasses in Classes Project, Hooked on Fishing, Junior Rangers, Living History Characters, Four Seasons Activity Book, Outdoor Discovery Camps, Scales and Tales, and Stream Releaf Activities. High School programs include Envirothon, Maryland Conservation Corps, PTD, Bay Grasses in the Classes Project, Where do we grow from here?, and School Forests. Teacher Training programs include Project Learning Tree, Project WET, Project Wild, and The Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education National Wildlife Federation Educator Workshops. MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA Organization: Chesapeake Bay Foundation Program: Education Department: Teacher Training Institute and Field Trips Age Level: Not Specified Website: www.cbf.org Thirty years ago, CBF established an environmental education field program to teach people to Save the Bay. We offer professional development for teachers and educational opportunities for students. Over the past three decades, we have evolved into the largest, regional field-based environmental education program in the world. CBF's education program engages more than 100,000 people every year through its field programs, teacher training, curriculum materials, and restoration efforts. MISSISSIPPI Organization: J.L. Scott Marine Education Center Program: Various Programs Age Level: K-12 and PTD Website: www.aquarium.usm.edu K-12 programs include Project Marine Discovery SEA CAMP and Project Marine Discovery WATER WORLD CAMP. PTD programs include Wonders of Wetlands Teacher Mini-Camp, Aquatic Nuisance Species Teacher Mini-Camp, COAST PILOT Leadership Institute, and Summer Field Program. Organization: MSU Coastal Research and Extension Service Program: Youth Education and PTD Age Level: Not Specified Website: www.msstate.edu/dept/crec/youth.html Establishing and implementing a comprehensive youth education and outreach program with a primary focus in environmental education Providing support to field-level youth programs on environmental and related issues. This includes in-service training, dissemination of environmental information and education programming and Internet guidance. NORTH CAROLINA Organization: North Carolina Aquariums (Roanoke Island, Pine Knoll Shores, Fort Fisher) Program: Various Programs Age Level: All ages Website: www.aquariums.state.nc.us/files/program.htm The North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island is a wonderful educational opportunity for students of all ages. The Aquarium's purpose is to increase the public's awareness of North Carolina's coastal environment. Become involved! Take your class on a self-guided tour, see a film, participate in a special program, or let us come to you! Colorful exhibits and tanks teeming with aquatic life offer exciting ways to help your students experience the mysteries of the deep! A visit to the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores can take several forms, including a teacher-led tour, an auditorium presentation, a marine life film or one of our extended field studies. The education staff invites you to schedule a visit or program. The experience will benefit students, teachers and especially the future health of our aquatic habitats. Fort Fisher: Group participation in an Aquarium program is an educational adventure. Whether you opt for an instructor-led program in the field or in an off-site classroom, it will be an exciting learning experience. NEW JERSEY Organization: New Jersey Audubon Society Program: Various Programs Age Level: PTD and K-12 Website: www.njaudubon.org/Education For school groups at our centers or at your school. These programs introduce basic natural history concepts as well as lay the foundation for learning how humans are part of these natural systems. For formal and non-formal educators: NJAS has a long history of providing natural history and environment-based education: Learn more about NJAS as a resource for educators in the state. Organization: New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium Program: Various Programs Age Level: K-12 and PTD Website: www.njmsc.org/Education/Main_Page.htm The Coastal Experience is NJMSC's collection of Marine Science field trip programs for school aged children. Programs are offered year round and all programs include active, "hands-on" participation in marine science activities. The Coastal Experience includes four programs: Marsh and Ocean Environments, Salt Marsh Ecology, Barrier Beach Dynamics, Comparative Studies of Barrier Island Communities, Marine Debris: A Critical Issue, and The Coastal Express: This Series of programs is ideal for after-school programs, informal groups and groups with time constraints. Programs run approximately 2 hours and can begin at locations near Sandy Hook's entrance to maximize the time spent on hands-on activities. Choose from the following: Estuary Exploration (for grades 4-12) Seashell Science (for grades pre K-6) Seining at Spermaceti Cove (for grades 2-12) A Closer Look at Sand (for grades 4-12) PTD: NJMSC Professional Development workshops help teachers integrate marine and environmental science education into their classroom plans. Workshops are customized to specific user group needs. Typical workshops ranged from one-day in-services to year-long institutes. Organization: The Wetlands Institute Program: Various Programs Age Level: K-12 Website: www.wetlandsinstitute.org/education.html A variety of programs includes Field Trips, Electronic Field Trips, Summer Nature Classes, and Project WET teacher training workshops. Organization: New Jersey Audubon Society Program: NJ Waters Age Level: Middle and High School Website: www.njaudubon.org/Education/njwaters.html New Jersey WATERS: A Watershed Approach to Teaching the Ecology of regional Systems. Provides an opportunity for students to collect, share, analyze, and compare scientific, cultural, economic, and historical data. Establishes a framework in which students can network with their peers and with professionals that work in the fields of habitat preservation and resource management. Enables students to examine the watershed system in a broad regional context. Encourages students to use critical thinking and decision-making skills in developing strategies to preserve the watershed system and its resources in order to meet the area's present and future needs. NEW YORK Organization: New York Sea Grant Program: Hudson River Estuary Summer Course Age Level: Middle and High School Website: www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/NYSG@30/education.htm The course is interdisciplinary, focusing on Hudson River ecology, cultural history and current social and economic issues. Field trips for the course - from which students are required to write related lesson plans to be used in their own classrooms - have included visits to Hudson Valley historic sites, environmental education centers, power generation and sewage treatment plants and Hudson River marinas and riverbank parks. Students experience the river as a living classroom, monitoring water quality in the Hudson’s tidal marshes and creeks, beach seining and cruising the river’s main stem on board research and educational vessels. In its first two years, over 30 teachers participated, including those employed by Rockland, Westchester, and Putnam Counties and New York City. About one half of the students teach science in New York's public schools. Organization: Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Program: Classroom of the Waves & Tideline Discovery Program Age Level: All ages Website: www.clearwater.org Classroom of the Waves takes place on the Clearwater. All voyages on the Clearwater—whether for groups of adults or school children, for Clearwater members of the public—share similar elements. On a typical day, the passengers assemble at the dock for a brief orientation to the boat and crew. Once underway, an otter trawl is set to gather specimens for the fish tank. Then it’s all hands to the halyards to help hoist the sails. Following sail raising, different learning stations can include fish, plankton, invertebrates, sediments, water chemistry, steering and sailing the vessel, navigation and a variety of other topics. Time is set aside during the sail for the entire group to come together to learn about Clearwater’s history and mission. A highlight of nearly all sails is a period of silence allowing everyone to reflect on aspects of the boat, river, and life they have seen while under sail. Music by the crew may follow the silence, and passengers join in songs about sailing and environmental concerns helping to bring a sense of community to the day. The Tideline Discovery Program is a hands-on learning experience offered on the Hudson’s shores from March to November. It enables students to embrace the many educational possibilities offered by our magnificent river. Program content and activities vary depending on grade level and topics of interest to the teacher. The program includes one classroom visit by a Clearwater educator and an interactive field trip to the river’s shore. Typically, during the initial classroom visit, a Clearwater educator introduces students to the river’s ecology, history, and environmental issues through a slide presentation and discussion. OHIO Organization: Ohio Department of Natural Resources Program: Project WET Age Level: K-12 Website: www.dnr.state.oh.us/water/educate/owep/guidetxt.htm The Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide, for kindergarten through twelfth grades, is a collection of innovative, water-related activities that are hands-on, easy to use, and fun! Project WET activities incorporate a variety of formats, such as large and small group learning, whole-body activities, laboratory investigations, discussion of local and global topics, and involvement in community service projects. Developed, field-tested, and reviewed by hundreds of educators and resource managers around the country, the Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide addresses the goals of Project WET and The Watercourse. RHODE ISLAND Organization: Audubon Society of Rhode Island Program: Various Programs Age Level: PTD and K-12 Website: www.asri.org Audubon serves more than 20,000 local students and teachers, in RI and nearby Mass & CT. We offer comprehensive resources for environmental education, including classroom programs, after school programs, field trips, nature stories, teacher workshops, and a teacher resource center. These programs are designed to bring a wide variety of hands-on, environmental learning experiences for students as young as pre-school age and up to high school seniors. In some of our programs, such as "Owls of RI" and "Rainforests and Us", students get to witness a live animal. In our popular "Bring back the Leatherbacks" and "Inflatable Whale" programs, students perform a necropsy on a life-sized Leatherback Sea turtle replica and sit inside a 65 foot Fin whale model. Organization: Save the Bay, Narragansett Bay Program: Field Programs, Classroom Programs, Shipboard Programs, PTD Age Level: PTD and K-12 Website: www.savebay.org Serving teachers and students in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Save the Bay has three categories of student programs. Student field programs focus on bringing kids into the coastal environment to explore the biological and physical characteristics, as well as to conduct specific science activities such as water quality and seine netting. Shipboard programs allow kids to travel on the Alletta Morris to study the bay bottom, plankton, and even the flora and fauna of Prudence Island (Part of the Narragansett Bay NERR). Classroom programs are actually outreach programs taken to local schools. They feature life-size models of various bay animals and some live specimens. PTD programs focus on bay issues and concepts and are field or boat based. Save the Bay does a thorough job of relating their K-12 and PTD programs to specific state and national standards for both Rhode Island and Massachusetts, as well as providing PTD credit specific to each state. SOUTH CAROLINA Organization: Project Oceanica Program: COASTeam Age Level: PTD K-8 Website: oceanica.cofc.edu/coasteam The COASTeam Program offers integrated courses in which teachers learn marine science concepts in the fields of geology, biology, chemistry, and physics. The courses teach these concepts using South Carolina's coast as an excellent "classroom," providing teachers with relevant, local examples to carry back to their own classrooms. Organization: Seacoast Science Center Program: Various Programs Age Level: K-12 Website: www.seacentr.org/programs/school_program.html The Seacoast Science Center offers schools and organizations a wide selection of Outdoor, indoor and outreach programs designed to meet the needs of any group size or budget. You can choose from a variety of habitats and program formats for your environmental education experience. SSC programs can help you meet your state Science Curriculum Frameworks. Organization: South Carolina Marine Educators Association Program: Resources for Marine Educators Age Level: Not Specified Website: www.coastal.edu/science/scmea SeaScripts newsletter for Marine Educators, available online. Provides marine education information and PTD opportunities. Organization: South Carolina Science Council Program: Professional Organization of Teachers Age Level: K-12 Website: www.scscience.org The South Carolina Science Council (SC)2 is a statewide professional organization of teachers and any others who are concerned with the improvement of science education in South Carolina. Offers links to various resources and curriculum. VIRGINIA Organization: Virginia Marine Science Museum Program: Various Programs Age Level: K-12 Website: www.vmsm.com/teachers.html The Virginia Marine Science Museum offers both on- and off-site program options, as well as outreach, where the museum comes to you. Whatever your grade level, the Virginia Marine Science Museum has a program to supplement your curriculum and enhance the student's experience.
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