Teacher Trainings

Combine creative, hands-on science, history, art, and maritime activities for summertime family-friendly fun and much more!

Educators get hands-on field experience and learn how to design effective environmental education curriculum for students.

Our next Teacher Training Workshop will be held August 6-9. More details will be available by May 30, 2012.

The Foss Waterway Seaport works in partnership with marine research vessel providers and curricula development experts to help formal and non-formal educators develop environmental and sustainability curricula for students of all ages.

The Seaport offers Watershed Teacher Training Workshops in order to provide a context and framework to help educators develop curricula promoting service-learning projects in the region’s schools. These workshops give educators first-hand field experiences to build a connection between environmental concepts and “real life” day-to-day activities students can relate to, anchoring the marine ecology and environmental sustainability concepts they will be teaching students.

Participants who attend our workshops include teachers, school district personnel, and members of teacher-preparation programs. Educators begin developing curriculum during the workshop and learn about existing local programs that get students out into the field for watershed-focused, service-learning and community-based projects and hands-on experiences.