FIELD INVESTIGATION WORKSHOP

Teachers learn to connect watershed investigations, teaching methods for field studies, content standards, and inquiry-based lessons. Major ecological and social watershed issues will flow through each component of the workshop.

Workshop Dates

September 30, 2010 - The workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Brookside Nature Center in Montgomery County, MD.  The address is 1400 Glenallen Ave Wheaton, MD 20902. 

October 25, 2010 - The workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the VCU Rice Center in Charles City.

Workshop Objectives
Participants will learn to do the following:

• Run a local field investigation 
• Connect field investigations to a variety of curriculum standards 
• Use various field investigation tools 
• Conduct a variety of hands-on field-based investigations and integrate opportunities to do math, to construct and/or analyze maps, to read, to write and to collect, organize and analyze data.

What to Bring

• Lunch: The day will be packed with no time to step out to purchase lunch
• Be dressed to be inside and outside, rain or shine
• Chesapeake Classrooms Teacher Guide

Instructional Materials
All participants will receive:

• CBF’s Field Investigation Manual
• Pond and Stream Safari Kit
• Water Quality Testing Kit
• Other useful curriculum-enhancing goodies

To Sign Up

Contact chesapeakeclassrooms@cbf.org for more information or to register.
Cost is $50 per participant
Additional recertification credit can be obtained by completing the workshop series.