Northeastern North Carolina Area Teachers are Taking a GPS Nature Quest!

Through funding from the Golden Leaf Foundation, Elizabeth City State University School of Education and Psychology has partnered with the NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources – The Dismal Swamp State Nature Park and the NC Department of Public Instruction in providing a professional development science and math workshop entitled “Becoming A Modern Day Indiana Jones - A GPS Nature Quest” this summer for selected teachers in grades 3-5. The focus is on instructing teachers on the use and integration of the Global Positioning Handheld Systems with the science curriculum plants and animals. The Golden Leaf Foundation has provided a GPS Science Kit worth approximately $900 for each school that participated. Each school was allowed to select one teacher who will return to their school in the fall and train their 3rd, 4th and 5th grade teachers on the use of the GPS integrating the science and math curriculum.