Hog Island by Jean Hall
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Scholarship Announced for Educator’s Week 2022 at Hog Island, Maine
Presque Isle Audubon Society of Erie, PA is happy to announce a $2,400 scholarship to National Audubon’s “Sharing Nature: An Educator’s Week” at Hog Island, Maine from July 17 to 22. Any educator in who lives or teaches in Erie or Crawford Counties is eligible to apply. The scholarship covers the $1690 registration for room and board, and allows for $710 for transportation to the Camp. Please note that there are NO prerequisites for this program; you don’t have to be an expert birder, just someone who enjoys birds and the outdoors, and wants to teach others about them. |
Per their website (Hog Island Audubon Nature Educator’s Week), you’ll 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.
Here’s some of the comments about past Educator’s Weeks: “Best workshop I have ever attended. No teacher left inside. All teachers deserve summer camp! Total stress relief, FUN, FUN, FUN!" - Deb, teacher, Alabama.
“I have been teaching for 25 years and have never experience a more well-rounded and useful program than that offered to educators on Hog Island. It is nothing short of out of this world. The scope, variety and depth of material we learned was extensive, exciting and so much fun. The people were top notch and the food will make you sorry you have to go home!" - Tracey, teacher, NY. Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) are available for completing the course from the University of Southern Maine.
Per Audubon requirements, all attendees must be fully vaccinated, and be prepared to wear masks and socially distance as required in the following guidelines (Hog Island Covid-19 guidelines).
The winner of this scholarship will be required to:
1. design and implement a lesson plan about birds and the environment for your students, survey them afterwards for their response to your class, and share the survey result with the Executive Board of Presque Isle Audubon.
2. give a presentation to the membership of Presque Isle Audubon about your experience by the end of 2022, in person or via Zoom.
3. write a brief article about your experience for our organization’s newsletter, the Tern of Events, by the end of 2022.
Interested in applying but have questions? Send them to president@presqueisleaudubon.org
All completed applications, see form below, must be completed by April 14. The applications will be reviewed by the Executive Board of Presque Isle Audubon, and the winner announced on April 30.
Here’s some of the comments about past Educator’s Weeks: “Best workshop I have ever attended. No teacher left inside. All teachers deserve summer camp! Total stress relief, FUN, FUN, FUN!" - Deb, teacher, Alabama.
“I have been teaching for 25 years and have never experience a more well-rounded and useful program than that offered to educators on Hog Island. It is nothing short of out of this world. The scope, variety and depth of material we learned was extensive, exciting and so much fun. The people were top notch and the food will make you sorry you have to go home!" - Tracey, teacher, NY. Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) are available for completing the course from the University of Southern Maine.
Per Audubon requirements, all attendees must be fully vaccinated, and be prepared to wear masks and socially distance as required in the following guidelines (Hog Island Covid-19 guidelines).
The winner of this scholarship will be required to:
1. design and implement a lesson plan about birds and the environment for your students, survey them afterwards for their response to your class, and share the survey result with the Executive Board of Presque Isle Audubon.
2. give a presentation to the membership of Presque Isle Audubon about your experience by the end of 2022, in person or via Zoom.
3. write a brief article about your experience for our organization’s newsletter, the Tern of Events, by the end of 2022.
Interested in applying but have questions? Send them to president@presqueisleaudubon.org
All completed applications, see form below, must be completed by April 14. The applications will be reviewed by the Executive Board of Presque Isle Audubon, and the winner announced on April 30.