Teacher Professional Development

Jug Bay offers several professional development opportunities for teachers each year.

Next opportunity:  Connecting Classroom Science to Field Research
Thursday, March 18: 5:00 -7:00 pm
Saturday, March 20; 10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Workshop Registration Form
 

Lush wetlands and river access make Jug Bay an excellent site for teachers to learn about setting up research questions investigating estuaries and water quality with their students. As a National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) where long-term ecological research is conducted, the Sanctuary offers a wealth of environmental data for developing research questions, comparisons with other student data, and student analysis.

 

 

 

 

Our workshops focus on:

  • Issues in the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed
  • Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE)
  • 5 E model
  • Helping students to develop appropriate and answerable research questions
  • Collecting data
  • Data sources (web based and field gathered)
  • Scientific field methods and techniques 
  • Analyzing environmental data
  • Developing action projects that are responsive to experimental results