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From Minnesota Sea Grant:

Workshop series summary:

Join Minnesota and Wisconsin Sea Grant for a two session workshop series that explores ways to use iNaturalist to enhance your curriculum across a variety of subjects. This workshop series was developed in partnership with Minnesota and Wisconsin high school and middle school teachers to ensure our materials speak to your needs and interests. 

During the course of this two day series learn how to use iNaturalist to integrate nature observation into art, cultural appreciation, geography, math, writing, biology and more.  Learn about how you can use the Great Lakes BioBlitz to increase Great Lakes literacy in your learners.

Each session will feature a guest speaker to help show these concepts in action, hands on activities, suggestions for classroom applications and a chance to share and network with other education professionals.  Workshop materials will suggest relevant Minnesota academic standards and benchmarks, Wisconsin model academic standards, Common Core Standards and Next Generation Science Standards.

The workshop series is open to any formal, non-formal, or informal educator in Minnesota or Wisconsin. Registration is required so a Zoom link can be sent. 

Where are these events taking place?

Anywhere you have the ability to participate via Zoom.

When are the sessions?

Week 1:  4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Guest speaker Joe Walewski will talk about his experiences using iNaturalist and ways to get kids engaged.  Other topics will include ways of using iNaturalist to teach Math, geography, phenology, ecology, and critical thinking.

Week 2:  4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Guest speaker Jody Henseler will talk about her experiences using her school forest with art and nature journaling and how both can be supported by the BioBlitz and iNaturalist.

How to register: https://z.umn.edu/inat_ws_reg_2021

Deadline to register is March 24, 2021.  Seats may be limited, so apply today!