Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
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Classroom Compass
Volume 3 Number 3
Spring 1997

Eisenhower SCIMAST

Resources and Opportunities

Summer at the Bronx Zoo





The Bronx Zoo offers an exciting professional development program for teachers nationwide. The zoo's award-winning interdisciplinary K-12 curriculum supports a series of three- to five-day workshops in which teachers are introduced to life science activities that focus on the world of wild animals.

The zoo's program provides staff development and instructional materials to participants for a registration fee of $240.

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Pablo Python Looks at Animals

Grades K-3
July 21-25, 1997
Interactive lessons about animal shapes, sizes, textures, colors and patterns


This fee includes lodging in New York City for five days, two meals a day, a refund of 30 percent of air fare (up to $150), and multidisciplinary curriculum materials. Graduate credit is available.

This program is designed to be taken home and used in the teacher's local school. In fact, acceptance into a workshop is contingent upon several requirements, including assurance from a school's principal that the curriculum will be implemented during a specified semester and a commitment from the participating teacher to conduct peer training upon returning home. Preference will be given to teachers from the same school who apply in teams of two or three.

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Voyage from the Sun


Grades 4-9
July 24-26, 1997
Exploration of the ways energy is important in living systems

Habitat Ecology Learning Program (HELP)


Grades 4-6
August 4-8, 1997
How nature works, rain forest, wetlands

August 11-15, 1997
Deserts, grasslands, temperate forests
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Wildlife Inquiry through Zoo Education (WIZE)


Grades 6-8
July 28-August 1, 1997
Module I: Diversity of lifestyles

Grades 7-12
July 28-August 1, 1997
Module II: Survival strategies

For more information call Ann Robinson, manager of national programs at 1-800-937-5131.

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