STEM Ed Announcement: Energy Literacy Project

["Mort Sternheim" <mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

This is not a UMass Amherst program.
 Contact information is below.
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 The Hitchcock Center for the Environment
 Invites You to Participate in the Energy Literacy Project
 
 The Hitchcock Center is committed to supporting teachers who want to
 incorporate energy-related curricula into their teaching. With a
 grant from WMECO (Western Massachusetts Electric Company), fifteen
 4th, 5th or 6th grade teachers will be able to participate in the
 Hitchcock Center's Energy Literacy Project.**  
 
 The Energy Literacy Project provides a combination of professional
 development and classroom mentoring to strengthen understanding of
 our energy resources and how to make energy choices that support a
 vital economy and a healthy environment.
 
 Teachers will be given hands-on lessons for teaching important energy
 concepts such as kinds and forms of energy, how electricity is
 generated, renewable and non-renewable energy, impacts of energy use
 and alternative choices.
 
  The project consists of the following elements:
 
 "	A three-hour workshop held on Saturday, October 6, from
 9:30am-12:30pm at the Hitchcock Center, 525 S. Pleasant Street,
 Amherst, MA 01002
 "	Two 1-hour classroom lessons taught by a Hitchcock educator
 to model and demonstrate content taught in the workshop.
 "	An energy education classroom kit (value: $100)
 "	PDP's for 5 hours of science education
 
  **This project is limited to schools within the WMECO service area
  ** which includes the following towns: Amherst, Bernardston, Conway,
  ** Deerfield, Gill, Greenfield, Hadley, Hatfield, Leverett, Leyden,
  ** Montague, Northfield, Pelham, Shelburne, Sunderland.
 
 To apply please send the following information to
 micky@hitchcockcenter.org:
 Name
 School
 Town
 Grade level
 Phone number
 Email address
 I would like to participate because
 
 Applications are due by June 30, 2012.
 
 If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Colleen Kelley
 at colleen@hitchcockcenter.org
  or call her at (413) 256-6006.
 
 Thank you.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 

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