Teaching Science in your Watershed

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

Four Day Professional Development Opportunity

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.

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

To register email Audrey Antosz at Westfield State College. 

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