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  The Chesapeake Bay: Estuarine Ecology in Your Classroom
  Chesapeake Bay as an Ecosystem: An Experience in Estuarine Ecology and Classroom Applications

The Chesapeake Bay:
Estuarine Ecology in Your Classroom

Maryland Science Center presents the 4th Educator Extravaganza for Teachers ... "The Chesapeake Bay: Estuarine Ecology in Your Classroom" Participants will be immersed in estuarine ecology through a keynote address, five informational-interactive workshops, and the opportunity to investigate the Maryland Center's Chesapeake Bay Exhibit.

October 16, 1999
Contact: Joyce Trageser, 410-545-5954

Chesapeake Bay as an Ecosystem:
An Experience in Estuarine Ecology and Classroom Applications

University of Maryland, Center for Environmental Science is offering a course entitled "Chesapeake Bay as an Ecosystem: An Experience in Estuarine Ecology and Classroom Applications".

The purpose of the course is to provide educators with content knowledge necessary for understanding the ecology of Chesapeake Bay and to provide applications in environmental education for the classroom. The course will emphasize the use of authentic data, applications and interpretation through internet connections.

Three days of classroom lecture will include instruction in internet use and sites of available authentic data on estuarine systems. Seven days of field work will include lectures, field trips and demonstrations of activities teachers may use at their schools. The activites will be coordinated with content material. The field portions will be conducted at various Chesapeake Bay Foundation sites around the Bay.

Student will be evaluated based on examinations, student journal and development of a classroom/field project, which will address use of course material in the classroom. Students are required to make a presentation of their project at an end of school year workshop.

Students can receive three semester hours of credit offered through the Graduate Program in Marine-Environmental-Estuarine Science (MEES), UMD College Park. Application forms will be posted on the web in January, 2000 at www.hpl.umces.edu. For more information contact: Dr. Laura Murray, Horn Point Laboratory, 410-221-8419, murray@hpl.umces.edu.

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