Participants and their students will use free portal-based activities that employ maps and models to study their own school’s watershed; teachers will participate in a 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 $1000 stipend for participating.
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:
· 2 -1 1/2 day
workshop (3 day equivalent) at Heartland AEA in Johnston Friday evening Sept.
23 , Saturday Sept. 24, the evening of
Nov. 4 and Saturday Nov. 5 (travel costs reimbursed by grant, total of 32 hours
of work).
· 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
Applications are due Sept. 9, 2016. For more information
contact Rob Kleinow at rkleinow@heartlandaea.org.
