From July 12-17, educators can visit Maine’s Hog Island to hear instructors share their favorite approaches, methods, and activities for engaging children and adults with nature. Participants also will explore an Atlantic puffin and tern colony on Eastern Egg Rock and hike the island’s unspoiled spruce-fir forest.

The zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research, Conservation Education Division, invites middle and high school teachers and informal educators to attend these workshops. Participants engage in cutting-edge lab and field activities focusing on critical issues facing endangered species. These activities support the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and can be implemented in the classroom. Grant-funded scholarships include meals and lodging and a $500 stipend.

Teachers and families across the country are facing a new reality of providing opportunities for students to do science through distance and home learning. The Daily Do is one of the ways NSTA is supporting teachers and families in this endeavor. Each weekday, NSTA will share a sense-making task teachers and families can use to engage their students in authentic, relevant science learning. 

In coming weeks, your students will likely have questions about viruses. The HHMI BioInteractive website highlights highlights infectious disease resources featuring scientists on the front lines of combating viral epidemics, including Zika, Ebola, and Nipah. These resources are geared towards high school (general/AP/IB) and college levels.

This resource is written for teachers, including both the basics of climate change science and perspectives on teaching a subject that has become socially and politically charged. The main target audience for this resource is high school Earth and Environmental Science Educators.

This National Geographic Resource Library website provides teachers with a collection of vetted resources to deepen students’ understanding about condensation, precipitation, and weather patterns that are affected by, and a part of, the water cycle.