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TEACHER WORKSHOPS
Listed below are selected teaching resources from BLM national, state, and field offices, listed alphabetically by title.
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BLM Utah's Intrigue of the Past
1997 BLM Environmental Education feature.
Describes archaeology program that teaches teachers how to integrate archaeology into classroom lessons in science and social studies.
http://www.blm.gov/education/feature/feature11.html
California's Eastern Sierra Institute
1998 BLM Environmental Education feature
Describes partnership program to introduce Los Angeles high school students and science teachers to the ecology of eastern California.
http://www.blm.gov/education/feature/1998/ca/feature.html
Geology and Mining History Field Trips
State page
Information on program of earth science field trips to points of mineralogic, geologic, paleontologic, and historic interest in central California--for high school age and older, including in-service continuing education.
http://www.ca.blm.gov/bakersfield/geologytrips.html
Gunnison Resource & Environmental Education Network
Education network home page
Interagency environmental education efforts in the Gunnison (CO) Basin.
http://www.co.blm.gov/gra/gra-greenet.htm
Hands on the Land - Red Rock Canyon
Interactive website
Profile of Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, a BLM Hands on the Land site near Las Vegas, Nevada.
http://www.handsontheland.org/profiles/profile_details.cfm?sitecode=rero
Hands on the Land - West Eugene Wetlands
Interactive website
Profile of West Eugene Wetlands, a BLM Hands on the Land site in Eugene, OR
http://www.handsontheland.org/profiles/profile_details.cfm?sitecode=euwe
Intrigue of the Past
Workshop information
Describes Utah archaeology education program for 4th through 12th grades; information on workshops, activity guides, correlations.
http://www.ut.blm.gov/intrigue/intrigueintro.html
Piney Woods Country Life School
State web page
Describes programs offered at this school near Jackson, Mississippi, including teacher workshops, instruction in urban forestry, GIS, and natural resources, as well as a 2-week environmental education camp.
http://www.es.blm.gov/aboutus/phonebook/programdetails.asp?id=15
Project Archaeology
Heritage education program
Heritage education program to build awareness of cultural resources; includes activity guide and teacher workshops
http://www.blm.gov/heritage/project_archaeology.htm
Project Learning Tree
Teacher workshops
Describes partnership between BLM and Project Learning Tree (PLT) to enhance special theme workshops on fire education and invasive species,
http://www.blm.gov/education/LearningLandscapes/teachers/plt.html
Teaching Environmental Science Naturally
1997 BLM Environmental Education feature
Describes T.E.N., a two-and-a half day program that gives teachers ideas about how to teach environmental science in the classroom.
http://www.blm.gov/education/feature/feature4.html
The Utah Canyons Rock Art Project
1999 BLM Environmental Education feature
Describes Earthwatch program that places volunteers, many of them schoolteachers, in Utah canyons to document
prehistoric rock art.
http://www.blm.gov/education/feature/1999/ut/index.html
Utah Canyons Rock Art Project
Volunteer program
Volunteers, including teachers, document rock art and learn about the desert environment around Moab in ongoing Earthwatch Project.
http://www.ut.blm.gov/enviroed/enviroedrockart.html
Wild About Wapiti in BLM's Ely District, Nevada
1997 BLM Environmental Education feature
Describes wapati (Native American for elk) training course for teachers; adapted from Project Wild & including field trips to see elk in Nevada.
http://www.blm.gov/education/feature/feature8.html