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Academic Year Workshops and Conferences
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LEARNING OCEAN SCIENCE THROUGH OCEAN
EXPLORATION (NOAA)
Dates: September 26, 2009 (Part 1) and March 6, 2010 (Part
2) 8:30 am - 3:30 pm. Mandatory attendance at both workshops is required
Deadline for Registration: September 21, 2009
Tuition: FREE. Educators who attend both full-day workshops will receive a $100 stipend.
Bring the
excitement of current ocean science discoveries to your
students using the new Learning Ocean Science through
Ocean Exploration curriculum and a CD-ROM of the Ocean
Explorer website (http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov)
from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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| Summer Workshops |
Here you will
find a listing of the teacher training sessions available in
summer 2009,
please contact Denise Keaton at (251) 861-7515 with any questions.
If any workshop is cancelled due to low enrollment, all deposits will be refunded. All late fees related to the summer workshops will be waived. No one will incur this cost.
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Marine Application of Science and Technology (MAST)
Dates: All Sessions Are Full
Deadline for Registration: June 5, 2009
Tuition: FREE (Includes all meals and housing)
DISL Course Objectives
Alabama Course of Study Objectives and Ocean Literacy Standards
Download Application
Funded by the Alabama State
Department of Education, No
Child Left Behind Act of 2001
Emphasize hands-on application of math,
technology, and science using coastal Alabama resources.
Disciplines include oceanography,
salt marsh ecology, climatology and fisheries management. Each participant will receive a GPS receiver for use in the
classroom. Workshop registration begins in February.
Requirements for this workshop include:
Alabama 6th - 12th grade math or science teacher
*Credit hours available: 3 semester hours graduate
credit.
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Centers for Ocean Sciences
Education Excellence: Central Gulf of Mexico
(COSEE: CGOM)
Dates: June 21 - 26, 2009
Deadline for Registration: June 19, 2009
Tuition: FREE (Includes all meals and housing)
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Funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Navy, in cooperation with The University of Southern Mississippi-Marine Education Center (USM-MEC), the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL), Loyola University of New Orleans (LUNO), the University of Florida/Florida Sea Grant College Program, and Mississippi State University (MSU). |
 The Program invites 12 in-service and pre-service teachers of grades 4-12 and five scientists to
participate in a three week (five days in residence for
field activities and 10 days involved in distance-learning
spread over a three-week timeframe), three-semester hour,
graduate course. The workshop focuses on coastal
processes, habitats and organisms, and marine technology.
COSEE:CGOM establishes a working partnership between marine
and ocean scientists and teachers, giving each the
opportunity to share information and ideas about scientific
research and science education. Educators will receive a wealth of ocean sciences education materials,
instruction, and a stipend for each participant.
Requirements for this workshop include: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas teachers 4th - 12th grade science
*Credit hours available:
3 semester hours graduate credit.
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Coastal
Connections Linking Watersheds to the Gulf of Mexico
Dates: July 6 - 10, 2009
Deadline for Registration: July 3, 2009
Tuition: $425 (Includes all meals and housing)
DISL Course Objectives
Alabama Course of Study Objectives and Ocean Literacy Standards
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Learn how we're all connected to the coast, no matter where we live. Activities include trawling in Mobile Bay; visiting barrier islands; collecting specimens for your classroom. Educators will receive a 300 page
curriculum workbook.
*Credit hours available: 3
semester hours graduate credit.
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Sharks and Rays
Dates: July 19 - 23, 2009
Deadline for Registration: July 17, 2009
Tuition: $470 (4 meals on your own, cost does include one night hotel stay, remaining meals and housing at DISL)
DISL Course Objectives
Alabama Course of Study Objectives and Ocean Literacy Standards
Download Application
Come and
join us to set the records straight about these valuable,
beautiful, and misunderstood fish. We'll explore inland Alabama for shark fossils and go long-lining for live sharks in the Gulf of Mexico. Learn practical ways to weave sharks into classroom curriculum through a shark dissection, interactive classroom materials, and scientific talks from area shark biologists.
*Credit hours available: 3
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Submerged Grassbeds of the Northern
Gulf of Mexico
Dates: July 26 - 30, 2009
Deadline for Registration: July 24, 2009
Tuition: $485 (3 meals on your own, cost does include two night hotel stay, transportation to Panama City and Port St. Joe, remaining meals and housing at DISL)
DISL Course Objectives
Alabama Course of Study Objectives and Ocean Literacy Standards
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Explore
the intertidal habitats to subtidal habitats of the
Northeastern Gulf of Mexico. The settings will be St. Andrews
Bay and St. Joseph Bay, Florida. Objectives are to examine
and compare sandy beaches, rock jetties, and swaying seagrasses.
*Credit hours available: 3
semester hours graduate credit.
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