Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Collecting Field Data on Local Birds with Elementary Students

Green Teacher, a non-profit organization, dedicated to helping educators, inside and outside of schools, promote environmental awareness through their quarterly magazine, is providing a series of six free webinars throughout the 2016 winter/spring. On Thursday February 4, 7:30 pm- 8:30 EST, Renee Bachman and Ted Watt will be presenting the third webinar within the series, "Collecting Field Data on Local Birds with Elementary Students".

Through this webinar, Ted and Renee will explore how birds provide ready access for elementary level students to a variety of life science content areas. The presenters planned and carried out a nesting bird survey with 5th Graders in Western Massachusetts as part of Cornell's Birds in Forested Landscape Program. While teaching in Phoenix, Renee and her students collected data for the Central Arizona Phoenix Long Term Environmental Research Project. Ted has taught bird identification in informal settings for over thirty years. Together, they plan to share science practices and techniques in conjunction with visual and auditory bird observation skills, field data collection and analysis skills, and student presentation techniques for the wider community.

Registration and further information can be found on the Green Teacher website.

http://greenteacher.com/webinars/