GCE Announcement
Announcement
2024 GCE Schoolyard
School bells are ringing, and teachers are back in their classrooms, so we want to shoutout the incredible 14 science teachers who participated in the GCE-LTER’s annual Schoolyard Teacher Workshop on Sapelo Island! 🏝️
These passionate educators spent a week getting their hands dirty and feeding their curiosities with some seriously cool – and authentic - science. From monitoring loggerhead sea turtle nests 🐢, to tracking long-term ecological responses in salt marshes, to developing citizen science tools for monitoring sea level rise 🌊—they were right in the thick of groundbreaking research!
This isn’t just any workshop—it's where teachers become scientists and scientists become teachers.
Want in on this next year? 🙋♂️Applications for the 2025 Schoolyard workshop open in January, so start prepping now! Got questions? Reach out to Dr. Austin Heil at austin.heil@uga.edu for all the details.
(Photo credit: Tabitha Blackwell, Desiree Brookes, Julie Eidson)
The group gathered in front of Lulas Kitchen
Collecting data in the field
Planning experiments
Fun in the field!
Data collection in the marsh
submitted Sep 11, 2024
