How will you spend your summer vacation? Join the Bridging the Watershed (BTW) program for one of our week-long summer teacher institutes to learn how to help your students understand watershed ecology using local national and state parks as learning laboratories. You and your students will remember why you love to learn and teach about science!
Attend one of four institutes this June, then implement this standards-based, FREE curriculum with your students this fall to earn a $700 stipend, as well as graduate or recertification credits. For dates, registration information and the fine print, please visit http://fergusonfoundation.org/btw/training.shtml.
These BTW summer institutes will prepare you to incorporate one or more of the BTW stand-alone curriculum modules into middle and high school science courses. During these institutes, participants will explore the Potomac watershed to learn the local history, geology, and ecology and work with student investigators in the BTW curricula. An integral part of the institutes is an opportunity for teachers to engage in a field study in their participating parks to collect and analyze authentic scientific data.
Bridging the Watershed is an outreach program of the Alice Ferguson Foundation, in partnership with the National Park Service and area schools, whose purpose is to promote student academic achievement, personal connections with the natural world, lifelong civic engagement, and environmental stewardship through hands-on curriculum-based outdoor studies in national parks and public lands.