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Nature Up North hosts environmental education initiative in Canton with a dozen St. Lawrence County school teachers

Posted 8/10/15

From left Jake Malcomb, Nature Up North project manager, Conner Eldridge, Madrid-Waddington, Erika Barthelmess, Nature Up North director and SLU professor, Matthew Whalen, Madrid-Waddington, Kim …

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Nature Up North hosts environmental education initiative in Canton with a dozen St. Lawrence County school teachers

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From left Jake Malcomb, Nature Up North project manager, Conner Eldridge, Madrid-Waddington, Erika Barthelmess, Nature Up North director and SLU professor, Matthew Whalen, Madrid-Waddington, Kim Trombly and Barbara Borey, Clifton-Fine, Joanne Jocko, Ahkwesahsne Board of Education), Autumn Cook, Ahkwesahsne Kanatakon School, Stephanie Hansen, Canton Central, Nancy Putman, Heuvelton, Autumn McCarthy, Canton Central, Amanda Dunn, Potsdam Central, Mary Elizabeth Friot, St. James School) and Lyndsay McCabe, Canton Central.

CANTON – Nature Up North, an environmental education initiative based at St. Lawrence University, hosted a workshop for local teachers focusing on strategies for incorporating more nature-based learning the curriculum On Aug. 4-5.

Twelve teachers representing Madrid Wadding Central Schools, Canton Central Schools, Ahkwesahsne Board of Education, Clifton-Fine Central Schools, Heuvelton Central, St. James School, and Potsdam Central Schools attended.

Attending teachers had opportunities to not only learned how to participate in hands-on citizen science projects, but had time to develop lesson plans with support from Nature Up North staff.

Topics covered included STEM learning through citizen science; using natureupnorth.org to collect and store environmental data; and strategies and resources for integrating place and nature-based learning into lesson plans.

The workshop was made possible through grant funding from the ALCOA Foundation. Nature Up North is a project of St. Lawrence University.