Many Forests, Many Fires, Many Stories, Many Stewards

A University of Arizona outreach project

Summer Enrichment Program for Secondary Teachers (3 year tentative schedule)

Summer 2012 (up to 4 weeks): 

• Lead Teachers and S. Chavarria will shadow scientists (Valles Caldera and TBA Arizona mountains) and together work on how to best fit learned content into their existing classroom (May 27-June 1).  
• Lead Teachers and S. Chavarria will design a lesson/activity for their classroom catering to the subject and student age. 
• Lead Teachers and S.Chavarria would attend a 1 week Teacher Institute at Biosphere 2 (outside of Tucson) to see what these teacher led institutes look like (July). 
• Lead Teachers and S. Chavarria would design a teacher Institute for summer 2013 that the teachers would deliver/teach to other teachers (July).

Fall 2012

• Lead Teachers would report to S. Chavarria how the lessons or activities they designed worked in their classroom. (stipend for the reporting effort will be available)

• The 6 Lead Teachers and S. Chavarria would deliver a 1 week Teacher Institute on Tree-Ring, Climate, and Human inter-relationships at Biosphere 2 (July). The institute would be open to teachers from all over the US with stipend allowances available for up to 10 additional teachers that teach in Native American schools. 
• Field shadowing in Arizona a possibility for the 6 Lead Teachers . 

• The 6 Lead Teachers and S. Chavarria would deliver a 1 week Teacher Institute on Tree-Ring, Climate, and Human inter-relationships at Biosphere 2 (July). The institute would be open to teachers from all over the US with stipend allowances available for up to 10 additional teachers that teach in Native American schools.