This Land Is Your Land PD Workshop

At the Coral Gables Museum

Saturday, September 24, 9:00am-12:00pm

Objective: To engage with museum exhibitions and focus on strategies and activities that are standard-based for Environmental Science K-12 teachers.

This workshop will provide instruction aligned to the MDCPS curriculum with emphasis on STEAM education. Participants will engage in a hands-on water and climate change activity facilitated by Yvette Cano, education specialist at Everglades National Park. Participants will join a guided tour of “This Land Is Your Land: A Second Century For America’s National Parks” by guest curator and National Park Conservation Association representative Jacqueline Crucet. Participants will engage in a facilitated discussion session to explore all four of South Florida’s National Parks.

“This Land Is Your Land” celebrates America’s National Park Service as it enters its second century with a particular focus on South Florida’s four national park sites: Everglades, Biscayne and Dry Tortugas National Parks and Big Cypress National Preserve. Its purpose is to elevate awareness of our national parks with the hope of motivating action toward their continued protection. Experiential in approach, this exhibition presents natural and cultural objects, artwork and film to communicate the national park idea and experience.

Instructors: Jacqueline Crucet, Exhibition Curator

Yvette Cano, Everglades National Park Education Specialist

Lunch: No

Parking: Museum Garage (paid parking/CGM cannot validate)

220 Aragon Ave. Coral Gables, FL 33134

Early Bird fee: $20 (deadline for Early Bird fee is Wednesday, September 21, 2016)

Regular fee: $30

Teachers must contact Coral Gables Museum to register.

Teachers must register through MyLearningPlan to obtain master points as well as call Coral Gables Museum to register and pay for the workshop. Please contact Ingrid at 305-603-8067 or email ingrid@coralgablesmuseum.org