Teaching Environmental Sustainability - Model My Watershed

The Concord Consortium and the Stroud Water Research Center are pleased to announce the Teaching Environmental Sustainability-Model My Watershed (TES-MMW) workshop, a project funded by the National Science Foundation. Participants and their students will use free portal-based activities that employ maps and models to study their school’s watershed; teachers will participate in a 2016 summer face-to-face teacher workshop, two online courses for teachers and a 2-3 week unit of study with their students during the 2016-17 academic year, and follow-up 1 day teacher workshop in summer 2017. TES-MMW activities support NGSS and Math Common Core. Teachers will receive a stipend for participating ($1000 total details below). 

This program is for Iowa  middle and high school science teachers whose curriculum includes watershed studies, and who are willing and available to participate in all TES-MMW workshop and online activities that include:

·         3 day workshop at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS , July 26-28 (travel costs reimbursed by grant), 8 hours of meeting/day + 2-3 hrs. homework each day (total of 32 hours of work in 3 days)

·      2016-17 academic year: 2 online courses for teachers (15 hours of time for each course); and a 2-3 week unit of study (9-15 class periods of activities) with your students.

·      1 day of follow-up activities in summer 2017 (date TBD). 

·      Completion of all research activities required for NSF funding (see consent form, pp. 2-3)

Applications are due May 1, 2016. For more information contact Rob Kleinow.