[neact] STEM ann.

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Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 15:30:41 -0400
From: Morton Sternheim <mort@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: kwbrody@xxxxxxx
Subject: STEM Ed Announcement: Teaching Science in Your Watershed
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This is not a UMass program
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(Corrected announcement)


Teaching Science in your Watershed Using Real World Local Environmental
Issues to Teach Science

Four Day Professional Development Opportunity

June 26, 27, 30 and July 1, 2008
Registration Fee $150

Stipends from the Westfield River Environmental Center of $150 for first 15
participants registered by June 6th.  Meals and materials included.
Possibility of graduate credit

To register contact: Audrey Antosz at aantosz@xxxxxxx

All K-12 teachers are welcome to attend! However, the focus of these
workshops will be most relevant for teachers of science in upper
elementary through high school grades.

All workshop sessions will be led by faculty at Westfield State College and
community experts.

Participants will learn the basics of watershed science, focusing on
real-world local environmental issues such as:

        Human impacts on water quality
        Effects of invasive species on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
        Reintroduction of Atlantic Salmon

Participants will engage in specific activities relevant to their classroom
or schoolyard, including:

        Stream monitoring & water quality
        Basic mapping skills, including GIS " & GPS technology
        Investigating soils
        Studying the impacts of the hemlock woolly adelgid, a non-native
              insect

Priscilla Miller, Director
Center for Teacher Education and Research
Westfield State College
577 Western Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
1-413-572-8065
pmiller@xxxxxxxxxx
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