Social Studies - Professional Development Opportunities
- Transportation, land use, natural resources and trade are natural ways to tie environmental topics to social studies lessons. Encourage students to: analyze environmental legislation, use Geographic Information System resources (such as Google Earth) to look at environments globally, and explore the impacts of climate, environment and natural resources on historical events. Use the search function to the right to explore other ways to incorporate environmental themes into social studies lessons.
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Conserve School, a semester school for high school juniors focused on the theme of environmental stewardship, offers an Advanced Placement Summer Institute at their 1,200-acre wilderness campus in Land O’ Lakes, Wis.
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Smithsonian Education offers free online conferences for educators on a variety of science and history topics. Access archived versions of past conferences and learn more about upcoming events on the website.
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The mission of the Global Youth Leadership Institute (GYLI) is to nurture collaborative leadership for global communities and to assist schools in their missions to inspire socially responsible young people.
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Original broadcast on March 30, 2011
Teaching Ocean Connections: Watersheds to Reefs was broadcast live on Wednesday, March 30, 2011.
During the webinar, experts Rob Ferguson, Paulo Maurin and Cathy Sakas from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shared their knowledge and ideas for compelling classroom activities on watersheds and introduced participants to NOAA's Rivers to Reefs Program.
Webinar participants also learned about a series of lesson plans developed by Earth Day Network in support of EE Week's 2011 theme: Ocean Connections.
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Original Broadcast on Wednesday, February 23, 2011
On April 20, 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Young people are asking their teachers and parents difficult questions about the causes and effects of the spill, and many educators have elected to focus on the Gulf Oil Spill as a unifying interdisciplinary theme to explore throughout the school year.
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