Audience: 7th-12th Grade Educators (4th – 6th grade educators with permission)

Inspire and motivate your students in participatory citizen science programs that are beneficial locally as well as globally. Students will contribute towards climate change research by documenting connections between weather data and plant phenological changes.

Special consideration for Benton/Linn County educators that apply for year-long OSU Extension mentoring project (call for details 541-766-6311).

Workshop Participants Will:

• Explore two national citizen science programs, CoCoRaHS and Nature’s Notebook to use in their classroom.
• Observe, collect and record authentic local science data
• Expand the awareness, knowledge, and understanding of climate variability and climate science
• Receive curriculum to connect climate change science to Oregon Education Standards
• Document climate science using technology

Register for this FREE workshop, click check when reaching payment option to finish your registration https://secure.oregonstate.edu/osuext/register/764