[SEMCO] Teachers' Professional Development opportunity

[Kathy Zagzebski]

Join the Museum Institutes for Teaching Science, the Lloyd Center for the
Environment, Buttonwood Park Zoo, Mass Audubon's Oak Knoll and Stony Brook
Wildlife Sanctuaries, and the National Marine Life Center and dive into
learning progressions from land to sea. This professional development
institute combines 16 hours of on-line instruction with a one-week on-site
component. During the on-site component, spend a day at each partner
institution's site participating in hands-on inquiry investigations combined
with content sessions.

Discover how plants and animals are dispersed across and adapted to the
varied habitats within our aquatic, coastal and terrestrial landscape. Spend
a day at a marine mammal rehabilitation facility as you investigate issues
surrounding marine animal stranding, rehabilitation and release of sea
turtles, seals and dolphins. Learn first-hand the science of animal behavior
and how it is applicable both in the wild and in captivity as you experience
what it takes to meet animals' physical and mental emotional needs in zoos.
The experience becomes hands-on as you create an echogram, observe a
training session, make enrichment items and participate in a behavioral
training session. Get wet and salty as you explore a coastal ecosystem and
discover how resident organisms are adapted to life in an extremely variable
environment.

Throughout the course we will utilize a variety of tools, methods,
technologies and your background knowledge to identify adaptations that
plants and animals may have to survive and thrive in a given habitat.
Through online lessons, hands-on activities that demonstrate learning
progressions and group discussions we will explore ways to excite and
educate your students about science, technology and math!

This course is targeted at Grades 3-8 Educators.

Course Dates:
June 21 Introductory Session (8:30 am - 12:30 pm);
June 30 - August 8 on-line;
July 21 - 25 on-site (9 am - 3:30 pm)

Registration Fee (50 PDPs):
$375/individual;
$325/team of 2 or more teachers from same school district

Graduate Credit Offered (4 credits, 90 PDPs):
Cambridge College - $200;
Framingham State University - $225

For more information and to register, visit the Museum Institutes for
Teaching Science website at:
http://mits.org/2014-summer-professional-development-institutes/
<https://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fmits.org%2F2014-summer-profession
al-development-institutes%2F&ust=1402684813966000&usg=AFQjCNHHwpAHVOK8HG0gFd
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  Kathy Zagzebski

  President & Executive Director

      The National Marine Life Center

      P.O. Box 269, 120 Main Street

      Buzzards Bay, MA  02532-0269

  phone:  508 743-9888 x301

  cell:  774 313-8850

  fax:  508 759-5477

  e-mail:   <mailto:kzagzebski at nmlc.org> kzagzebski at nmlc.org

  web:   <http://www.nmlc.org/> http://www.nmlc.org/

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