Nine Teachers Participate in Phenology Workshop
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
Our first phenology workshop for K-12 teachers was held on July 8th at the LGNC. Nine teachers joined with Dan, Diane, Meredith Wright (Phenology Project Intern) and Corey Husic (LGNC Intern) for this event. Topics included an introduction to phenology and its history, the relationships between phenology and climate change, a discussion of citizen science and the Eastern PA Phenology Project, and resources available to teachers and students. The presentations were followed by a work session in which teachers brainstormed about how they can incorporate phenology into their curriculum and how the different schools participating might collaborate. The workshop was scheduled to run from 9:00 a.m. until noon but there were so many ideas being shared that the group worked until 1:30!
The workshop was supported by a PA DEP grant, and completed in partnership with the Audubon TogetherGreen Fellows Program and with the Lehigh Valley Greenways Conservation Landscape Initiative. Funding was provided in part from the PA DEP grant, D. Husic’s TogetherGreen Fellowship, and a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Recreation and Conservation, Environmental Stewardship Fund, administered by Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Inc.
The next phenology workshop and programming related to conservation of the Kittatinny Ridge will occur during the Migration Fest at the Lehigh Gap Nature Center scheduled for September 16-18, 2011.























