Check out our 2009 Chesapeake Classrooms Summer Schedule.

Explore the watershed and examine the connection between land use and water quality through hands-on investigations, standards-based activities and assessments, and action projects.

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:

Wednesday September 30, 2009  9am-3pm
Brookside Nature Center in Montgomery County, MD

Monday November 16, 2009 9am-3pm
Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Richmond, VA

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
  • CC 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 graduate or recertification credit can be obtained by completing the workshop series.