From: Frances Gatz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Over the last ten years we have developed a program that teams scientists with teachers and inspires curricula for local communities. We are spreading the word about our workshop and scholarship opportunity to K-12 educators. Here is a brief announcement: SCHOLARSHIP AND WORKSHOP PROVIDE CORNERSTONE IN TEACHER LEADER DEVELOPMENT Enter a $1000 workshop scholarship drawing. Unique, active, and fun! The AMAZON Rainforest Workshop July 5-13, 2001 is a professional development opportunity for teachers to work side-by-side with scientists in one of the most biologically diverse environments in the world. * Join author/illustrator Lynne Cherry and a spirited faculty of specialists in ornithology, botany, marine biology, and entomology. * Integrate field study with slides and support materials as a catalyst for local environmental education projects at home. * Receive academic credit. Full land cost for the workshop is $1898. Budget airfares and optional Andes extensions are available. Scholarship entry deadline is April 2. For workshop and funding information call Frances Gatz 800-669-6806, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or check the web site WWW.TRAVEL2LEARN.COM Many thanks for your help! Best regards, Frances Gatz Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. More details follow: PROGRAM RESULTS Participants comment that this rainforest workshop is one of their most memorable lifetime experiences. Often funded by school districts and civic organizations, workshop participants return home as leaders to translate their experience into captivating lessons for their students, workshops for colleagues, and presentations for their communities. The academic rigor of this program and interdisciplinary nature of its content bolster teacher confidence to make comparisons with environmental and geographical concepts at home. WORKSHOP FEATURES * Ascend over 115 feet on a 1/4-mile Rainforest Canopy Walkway, the only one of its kind in the Western Hemisphere. * Through slides, handouts, and field-work, investigate rainforest and local ecosystem connections in a way that inspires creative teaching methods. * Use hand lenses, binoculars, headlamps, maps, field guides, water testing equipment, butterfly nets, penetrometers, and other simple field equipment as a model of experiential education to improve student motivation and learning. * Overnight at three rainforest lodge facilities in the Amazon basin of Northern Peru. * Visit local schools and families and see how indigenous cultures use the forest for medicine, food, and shelter. * Get involved in conservation and cultural exchange programs through the ACEER. SPONSORS & FACULTY Selby Botanical Gardens, Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER), Environmental Expeditions, NC State University, and contributions from leaders and institutions in both the public and private sectors make this program possible each year. Our faculty includes: LYNNE CHERRY, Author/Illustrator (The Great Kapok Tree) Canopy Researcher H. BRUCE RINKER, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Marine Biologist DR. LUNDIE SPENCE, NC Sea Grant College Program Entomologist RANDY MORGAN, Cincinnati Zoo Rainforest Biodiversity Specialist DR. STEVE MADIGOSKY, Widener University Ornithologist DR. KEVIN MCGOWAN, Cornell University SCHOLARSHIP DRAWING Deadline April 2, 2001. Contact Environmental Expeditions for entry applicatio n. Previous winners of our $1000 Rainforest Workshop Scholarships include: 2000 - Josie Boyette, K-12 PCM Hospital School teacher, Pitt Co. Schools in Greenville, NC 2000 - Paula Willmon, 5th grade science teacher at Woodville Intermediate in Woodville, TX 2000 - Elaine Rowe, elementary teacher at PS 114K District 18 in Brooklyn, NY 1999 - Jo Allyn Henry, 4th grade teacher at Cedarbrook Elementary School in Plainfield, NJ 1998 - Karie Trupka, math & science teacher at Circle of the Nations School in Wahpeton, ND 1997 - James Bennett, high school science teacher at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC Environmental Expeditions, 801 Devon Place, Alexandria, Virginia 22314 Frances Gatz, Ph.D., Director, Rainforest Workshops Fax: 703-549-5045 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 800-669-6806 or 703-549-6626 Web site: WWW.TRAVEL2LEARN.COM ---------------------------------------------------- This is the CPS Science Teacher List. To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or visit the following web site <http://home.sprintmail.com/~mikelach/subscribe.html>.
