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Coast Alive!A wonderful professional development opportunity is available
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What is our program? Coast Alive! is designed to bring students and their teachers into Southern California's natural communities to experience and study California's coastal and marine environments including many California State Beaches, Parks and Reserves.
Coast Alive! will cover the entire southern coast from Santa Barbara County to San Diego County.
The multimedia classroom program will include computer-based scenarios that weave scientific literacy into the rich natural and cultural history of their local environments. Such as having students: designing an outdoor skateboard park, selecting an appropriate takeoff site and time for a paragliding exercise on the coast, identifying a species new to science following a firestorm, and placing a new oil rig offshore while avoiding disastrous spills.
Coast Alive! will move students out of the classroom and into fieldsites to investigate how tidepools, lagoons, beaches, and streams actually interconnect, and how human society depends on them. A strong professional development component / 2-day teacher workshops, will enable teachers to feel comfortable leading students in outdoor activities, and assist them in helping restore the fragile coastal environment [including the watershed areas]. Workshops scheduled throughout the school year - click here for schedule.
In addition to aligning with the California State Science and History/Social Science standards, the Coast Alive! project will use the living laboratory experiences for the state's children. With the help of knowledgeable interpreters and scientists, the Coast Alive! project offers a tremendous opportunity to educate and inspire the state's students as they actively work to repair and restore the environment.
You can enroll by calling 909 625-8767
Roger Renn
Assistant
Education Director
California Institute for Biodiversity
Coast Alive! Teacher Workshop Coordinator
