Year In Review
Chesapeake Bay is focus of course for science teachers
August 2011
Science teachers and Longwood students participated in a four-week course on the Chesapeake Bay in summer 2011.
SOLstice participants and faculty seine for aquatic animals at the Living Shoreline at Hull Springs Farm.
The course—Summer of Learning: Science Teachers Investigating the Chesapeake Environment (SOLstice)—brought together Longwood faculty from ecology, chemistry, physics and mathematics with practicing school teachers and Longwood students who plan to be science teachers. Scientists and natural resource professionals from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Clean Virginia Waterways and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality provided additional lessons about the Chesapeake Bay, its health and citizens’ roles in its future.
The course (July 11-Aug. 5) included a week at Longwood’s Hull Springs Farm in Westmoreland County, a week on the Longwood campus and two weeks of online instruction. Participants learned scientific investigation skills, and one goal was to prepare teachers to offer meaningful watershed experiences for students.
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