Mathematics - Professional Development Opportunities

  • Use environmental data and themes to help your students apply mathematics to real-world problems. Assign environmentally-themed math problems, analyze data such as population figures, land use statistics, and pollutant levels, use data to draw inferences about changes in population and natural resource consumption, and have students explain the impacts of their analysis. Use the search function to the right to explore other ways to use environmental data in your classroom.
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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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    This course is a pilot for the Teachers on the Estuary program, a research and field-based teacher training initiative of the National Estuarine Research Reserve System, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The goal of TOTE is to improve teachers’ and students’ understanding of the environment using local examples and to provide resources and experience to support the incorporation of estuary and watershed topics into classroom teaching.

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