TEACHER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

Interested in...
Joining a Research Team?

Sharpening your Inquiry Skills?

Making Authentic Science
Relevant to Your Students?

In this exciting immersion program, teacher fellows learn about Chesapeake research from its headwaters to the Bay in an introductory weeklong workshop. For the rest of the summer, they will reside at one of four University of Maryland premier research facilities working alongside scientists on projects that include wetland restoration, oyster and fish aquaculture, nutrient dynamics, and marine pollution. They will also create a student lesson that builds on their research experience. Teacher fellows will refine these lessons during the academic year, testing them with students and sharing them with colleagues at the 2006 Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Educators conference. Teacher fellows will gain improved teachers' scientific inquiry skills and knowledge of Chesapeake Bay watershed science, as well as receive a stipend, classroom supplies, and some travel expenses.

When: June 20, 2005 to August 5, 2005

2 Saturdays (November 12, 2005 & March 18, 2006)

Conference workshop (Friday-Saturday, late January or early February 2006)

Where: One of the four University of Maryland science research facilities:

Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD

Center of Marine Biotechnology, Baltimore, MD

Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons Island, MD

Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD

Who: Middle and High School Teachers in the Chesapeake Bay watershed

http://www.mdsg.umd.edu/Extension/msgsnn/msgsnn07_1/fellowship.html