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Professional Development for Educators and Youth Leaders

We have a variety of offerings that will help upgrade your conservation and science knowledge and skills as well as ideas on how to integrate the environment as a context for learning in all subjects and how to provide authentic outdoor learning experience for your students. To see if there is a workshop scheduled near you or if you want to schedule a workshop, go to the professional development activity you are interested in.

Early Childhood

Growing Up WILD: Need ideas of how to introduce young learners, ages 3-7, to nature and the outdoors?

Kindergarten through High School

Project WILD and WILD Aquatic: Educators, K-12, get the attention of your students by integrating wildlife into your lessons and programs.

Project WILD workshop - March 16, 2012 - click for application.
Project WILD Aquatic and Project WETworkshop - March 31, 2012, in Lancaster, NH - click for details and application

2012 MITS Summer Institute (Museum Insitute for Teaching Science) for Elementary & Middle School Educators

Field Investigations – Learn how to engage your students in exploring, observing and investigating the natural world.

Summer Teacher Workshops - Immerse yourself in learning by attending a week long summer session focusing on a variety of topics including, watersheds, field investigations, building science literacy and exploring schoolyards.

Below Zero - Instead of feeling the winter blahs, introduce your K-12 students to the basics of winter ecology with the help of a variety of fun activities

Middle and High School

2012 MITS Summer Institute (Museum Insitute for Teaching Science) for Elementary & Middle School Educators: Explore! Investigate! Invent! How Science Inspires Engineering - July 9- 20, 2012 (10 Days, Monday - Friday). How does the natural world inspire engineering design? We will engage in science inquiry investigations to examine ingenious designs in the natural world, and then use our newly acquired knowledge to explore design dilemmas in the human world. Register by June 6 - click here for info!

Watershed Education Program (WEP) - A free Middle and High School program which provides students the opportunity to pursue Citizen Scientist studies of the aquatic ecosystems in their own watershed.

Furbearer Fundamentals: Use this unique curriculum to integrate middle school science and social studies.