Connection to the Chesapeake through Environmental Science: Montgomery County
Open to all Montgomery County middle and high school teachers.

How can you become familiar with your local ecosystems and learn how to use them as valuable teaching tools for biology, chemistry, environmental science, and social studies? Join the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and MCPS Outdoor Environmental Education staff to explore current environmental problems and solutions taking place in our schoolyard habitats, local waterways, neighborhoods and the Chesapeake Bay. This course will tackle human land use impacts on local waterways and explore strategies to bring these concepts into the classroom using a biology and chemistry lens. Participants will experience outdoor investigations that can be used with students to make environmental biology and chemistry more relevant and create their own Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience (MWEE).

Length & Location: Five consecutive days of field-based, whole-group, outdoor investigations in Montgomery County and central Maryland.
Cost: $50
Credit: Successful completion of the course and final project will qualify MCPS teachers to receive 3 MSDE Professional Development Credits (#21-66-01R). This course is eligible for graduate credit from Mary Baldwin University. For more information visit the Professional Learning Credits page.
Orientation Date: Virtual orientation meetings are at 7:00 p.m. on May 25th, June 22nd, or July 13th. Choose one of the virtual meetings prior to your course.

COVID Policy: All participants of multi-day experiences are required to be fully up to date on COVID vaccinations, or have a negative PCR test within 72 hours of in person programing start. All vaccinated participants are required to take a rapid covid test 48 Hours prior to the start of in person programing. Attend only if negative.

Registration deadline: August 1, 2022
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