Location: Joppa
Flats Education Center, One Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport MA 01950
(978) 462-9998, www.massaudubon.org
Dates: Thursdays: February 26, March 5, 12, 19
Time: 3:45PM to 6 PM
Cost: $50. Member Schools $195. for Non-Member Schools See website www.salemcollaborative.org for member list.
PDP’s: 10 Hours with Completed Project
Instructors: Cyndy Bourquard and Lisa Hutchings Cyndy and Lisa are instructors for the Joppa Flats Education
Center and Wildlife Sanctuary
Leaders: Cyndy Bourquard
and Lisa Hutchings
Mass Audubon staff will show
you the benefits of setting up simple but effective discovery centers in your
classroom by bringing nature indoors. This program demonstrates the importance
of child-generated investigations, observations, book making and journaling.
Activities include setting up simple terraria, wet & dry science, visual
art application, and designing creature “comfort zones” in your classroom.
Leaders: Cyndy Bourquard
and Lisa Hutchings
Mass Audubon staff will
prepare a variety of activities and experiments that demonstrate simple steps
to make the most of your school yard and open spaces. Weather patterns, soil
sampling, microhabitats, and collecting techniques and tools will be
introduced. Participants will use binoculars, spotting scopes, and field guides
to observe and learn about adaptations in birds, bird migration, and plumage
characteristics.
Leaders: Cyndy Bourquard
and Lisa Hutchings
Whether preparing for winter
or waking up to spring, seasons mean change for all living things. Adaptations,
habitats, animal tracks, and environmental challenges are the focus of this
workshop. Winter survival games, forest home scavenger hunts, and the great migration
challenge will be presented. Activities presented can be modified for the field
or the classroom.
Session IV: Educators Open
House & Go Green! Thursday,
March 19
Leaders: Cyndy Bourquard
and Lisa Hutchings
In our last workshop, we’ll pull out all our
materials, books, curriculum, and all the thematic activity kits for participants to explore and put together
their project. We will also dedicate some time to introduces a wide variety of
simple and fun practices that celebrate renewable resources and demonstrates
smart environmental choices. Activities include vermicomposting, landscaping
ideas, air, solar powered inventions, and more.
Please
register at our website www.salemcollaborative.org,
or email the following information to Jim Kearns at registration@salemcollaborative.org. If you have registration questions, please
either email (preferred) or call Jim at 781-771-4860.
Make checks or Purchase Orders payable to CPMSIE and
Bring to the First Session
DEADLINE
to sign up is five days before the start of this course.