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Pickering Creek Audubon Center to Release Conservation Curriculum Book
EASTON, MD (January 18, 2007)—School Program Coordinator,
Shannon Gordon, and Mark Scallion, Director of Pickering Creek
Audubon Center recently visited the Superintendent's Office
and the elementary school principals at Talbot County Public
Schools (TCPS) to unveil Pickering Creek's new Gateways
to Conservation curriculum. The eleven in-school and field
lessons in the 200-page curriculum book are designed to complement
science education activities going on in the classroom. Each
of the 77 classes in grades 1-5 visit Pickering Creek Audubon
Center for a hands-on field experience, which is the culmination
of several weeks of education in the classroom. Audubon staff
from Pickering Creek also visit each class for an in-school
lesson each year. “TCPS Science Coordinator Lisa Donmoyer
and elementary school science teachers throughout the county
were of great assistance to Audubon staff at Pickering Creek
as we produced this wonderful curriculum,” said Pickering
Creek Director Mark Scallion.
Local individuals and a foundation sponsored
three of the five grade levels of annual programming for the
Gateways to Conservation program. The curriculum was designed
in cooperation with the National Park Service's Chesapeake
Bay Gateways Network as a model for elementary school education
about the Chesapeake Bay. The book's official public release
occured at the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor
Educator's Conference in Ocean City, Maryland on February
3rd, 2007.
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| Dr. Karen Salmon,
Superintendent and Dr. Carol Visintainer, Assistant Superintendent
of Talbot County Public Schools flank Pickering Creek's
School Programs Coordinator Shannon Gordon. |
Audubon is celebrating its centennial
year of protecting birds and other wildlife and the habitat
that supports them. Our national network of community-based
nature centers and chapters, scientific and educational programs,
and advocacy on behalf of areas sustaining important bird
populations, engage millions of people of all ages and backgrounds
in positive conservation experiences.
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