2023 Hog Island Educator’s Week Scholarship
“Sharing Nature: An Educator’s Week" July 16-21, 2023
Hog Island Audubon Camp, Maine
“Sharing Nature: An Educator’s Week" July 16-21, 2023
Hog Island Audubon Camp, Maine
Presque Isle Audubon Society of Erie, PA is pleased to announce their annual scholarship to attend The National Audubon Society’s “Sharing Nature: An Educator’s Week” at Hog Island, Maine, which this year will be July 16- 21, 2023.
This $2,790 scholarship is designed to cover the Camp's $1590 registration cost while also providing a $1200 transportation allowance. In return, the 2023 “Sharing Nature: An Educator’s Week” Scholarship Recipient will be required to:
Interested in applying but have questions? Send them to president@presqueisleaudubon.org
This $2,790 scholarship is designed to cover the Camp's $1590 registration cost while also providing a $1200 transportation allowance. In return, the 2023 “Sharing Nature: An Educator’s Week” Scholarship Recipient will be required to:
- Design and implement a lesson plan about birds and the environment for your students.
- Give a presentation to the membership of Presque Isle Audubon about your experience by the end of 2023, in person or via Zoom.
- Write a brief article about your experience for our organization’s newsletter, the Tern of Events, by the end of 2023.
- Eligibility: Any educator who lives or teaches in Erie or Crawford Counties is eligible to apply.
- Prerequisites: NONE. You needn't be an experienced birder, just someone who enjoys birds and the outdoors and wants to teach others about them.
- Application Deadline is April 1, 2023. The application can be found below.
- The Executive Board of Presque Isle Audubon will review the applications and announce the winning recipient on April 15, 2023.
Interested in applying but have questions? Send them to president@presqueisleaudubon.org
From their website: At Hog Island's Sharing Nature: An Educator’s Week, you will learn practical approaches and add inspiration to your environmental education curriculum during this action-packed program. Workshops using techniques in art, music, theater, journaling, and other disciplines will be presented. You’ll participate in a host of classic Audubon Camp field trips, including a boat trip around the restored Atlantic Puffin and Tern colony on Eastern Egg Rock, intertidal explorations, and hiking through Hog Island's unspoiled spruce-fir forest. In a beautiful outdoor setting, these experiences will provide a wonderful opportunity to learn new methods of teaching to take home to your students. You'll explore citizen science, create inquiry-based lessons on birds and other topics, and demonstrate low and high-tech methods of teaching.
Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) are available for completing the course from the University of Southern Maine.
“Best workshop I have ever attended. No teacher left inside. All teachers deserve summer camp! Total stress relief, FUN, FUN, FUN!" -Deb, teacher, Alabama.
"Audubon Educators Camp was amazing from start to finish, I highly recommend it to everyone. The food was amazing too. The staff was professional and accommodating. The teachers were patient, knowledgeable & willing to change course to do what was best for us." -John Sullens, Maryland educator, 2022 camper
Please Note: National Audubon requires all participants to acknowledge their COVID-19 Guidelines & Cancellation Policy prior to registering.
Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) are available for completing the course from the University of Southern Maine.
“Best workshop I have ever attended. No teacher left inside. All teachers deserve summer camp! Total stress relief, FUN, FUN, FUN!" -Deb, teacher, Alabama.
"Audubon Educators Camp was amazing from start to finish, I highly recommend it to everyone. The food was amazing too. The staff was professional and accommodating. The teachers were patient, knowledgeable & willing to change course to do what was best for us." -John Sullens, Maryland educator, 2022 camper
Please Note: National Audubon requires all participants to acknowledge their COVID-19 Guidelines & Cancellation Policy prior to registering.