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Home | KBS News | Invasion! The KBS K-12 Partnership 2016 Summer Institute

Invasion! The KBS K-12 Partnership 2016 Summer Institute

06.17.16 K-12 Partnership, KBS News

Thank you to everyone who attended and presented for the KBS K-12 Partnership Summer Institute August 17-19, 2016.  

Teachers visit the Experimental Ponds

Agenda – Summer Institute 2016

Participant List – Summer Institute 2016

 

Day 1: Wednesday, August 17 will include a morning plenary and then the opportunity to participate in a Michigan Environmental Education Curriculum Support (MEECS) workshop.  Choose Ecosystems and Biodiversity OR Climate Change .  Offered with generous support from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.  

RESOURCES FROM DAY 1 SESSIONS:

Plenary talk:

Tanis_What’s Under the Bark, KBS Seminar

Day 2, Thursday, August 18 will include morning plenary, then an action packed day of concurrent sessions.  You could learn about algae, biomimicry, agriculture, classroom management, how to ask the right questions and Michigan’s Most Wanted!

RESOURCES FROM DAY 2 SESSIONS:

Plenary talk:

Nelson_Plenary_18 Aug

Session materials:

“Data Nuggets in the Classroom” (Marcia Angle & Cheryl Hach)

urchin data nugget

birdie1 data nugget

birdie2 data nugget

CER rubric for KBS session

CER table blank with clip art 3 evidence boxes_with header

CER table with clip art 4 evidence boxes_with header

Sea Urchin data nugget_student answers-PD

“Michigan’s Most Unwanted” (Dustin Kincaid)

Lesson Plan and Materials

“Cooperative Invasive Species Management Areas – Citizen Science to Combat Invasive Species” (Michael Anderson)

Midwest Invasive Species Information Network

Day 3, Friday, August 19 will include an engaging morning plenary speaker and amazing concurrent sessions, topics to include urban forestry, papermaking with invasive plants, what the Research Experiences for Teachers have been up to at KBS this summer.  We’ll spend the afternoon outside at the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary and the Experimental Pond Labs.

RESOURCES FROM DAY 3 SESSIONS:

Plenary talk:

 

Session materials:

“Winter is coming! Are you adapted?” (Torrey Wenger and Marty Buehler)

Lesson Plan for Arabidopsis Freezing Tolerance-Final Version

“Papermaking with Invasive Plants” (Jane Kramer)

Jane Kramer:: Photography

 

Where: Kellogg Biological Station, 3700 East Gull Lake Dr., Hickory Corners, MI 49060

SCECHs will be NOT be available (updated 8/4/2016).

Compensation: stipend of $75/day

Workshop coordinated by Tyler Bassett and Jake Nalley, 2015-16 KBS K-12 Partnership Fellows

New to the Partnership?  Learn more here.

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