Classroom Compass
Volume 3 Number 3
Spring 1997

Resources and Opportunities

Summer at the Bronx Zoo

The Bronx Zoo offers an exciting professional development program for teachers nationwide. The zoo's award-winning interdisciplinary K-12 curriculum supports a series of three- to five-day workshops in which teachers are introduced to life science activities that focus on the world of wild animals. The zoo's program provides staff development and instructional materials to participants for a registration fee of $240.

Pablo Python Looks at Animals Grades K-3 July 21-25, 1997 Interactive lessons about animal shapes, sizes, textures, colors and patterns

This fee includes lodging in New York City for five days, two meals a day, a refund of 30 percent of air fare (up to $150), and multidisciplinary curriculum materials. Graduate credit is available. This program is designed to be taken home and used in the teacher's local school. In fact, acceptance into a workshop is contingent upon several requirements, including assurance from a school's principal that the curriculum will be implemented during a specified semester and a commitment from the participating teacher to conduct peer training upon returning home. Preference will be given to teachers from the same school who apply in teams of two or three.

	Voyage from the Sun Grades 4-9 July 24-26, 1997 Exploration of the ways energy is important in living systems
Habitat Ecology Learning Program (HELP) Grades 4-6 August 4-8, 1997 How nature works, rain forest, wetlands August 11-15, 1997 Deserts, grasslands, temperate forests
	Wildlife Inquiry through Zoo Education (WIZE) Grades 6-8 July 28-August 1, 1997 Module I: Diversity of lifestyles Grades 7-12 July 28-August 1, 1997 Module II: Survival strategies
For more information call Ann Robinson, manager of national programs at 1-800-937-5131.