Teacher Training & Resources

An Evening for Educators
Curious about the Ward Museum and its educational offerings? Join education staff for an evening of entertainment and discovery. We will demo education programs, highlight professional development opportunities, the new capabilities of the Habitat Theater, engaging exhibit tours, new discovery backpack program and MORE!

Fall 2009 date TBA

MARYLAND GREEN SCHOOLS

Become a Green School
Attention teachers, administration and educators! The Ward
Museum staff has the expertise to help you turn your school into a certified Green School through the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education. We offer aid in meeting the requirements and assistance through the application process.

Green Your Classroom
Learn to green your classroom with help from the Ward Museum staff. This program includes an evaluation of your classroom and customized tips for making your classroom environmentally friendly. Sample of topics we cover: recycling, reducing carbon footprints and energy savings.

Green Schoolyards
With our help you can transform your schoolyard into an environmentally friendly habitat. After an evaluation we will discuss and customize a plan for your schoolyard which focuses on topics such as native planting and Project FeederWatch.

Teacher Training

Teacher training and workshops can be requested by formal and non-formal educators for groups of 8 or more. Great for Professional Days!

Choose from the following: 

Flying WILD: An Educator's Guide to Celebrating Birds

An interdisciplinary, standards-based educator's guide that provides activities that teach school students about birds, their migration, and what people can do to help birds and their habitat. The guide can also help students, teachers, and community volunteers implement a bird festival at their school. A program of the Council for Environmental Education. 
 

BirdSleuth

Through BirdSleuth, kids become real scientists! Students engage in authentic inquiry, use technology and real data and benefit from the added restorative and cognitive benefits of time spent outdoors in nature!
 

COMING SOON! Lower Shore Traditions: Curriculum and Activity Guide

Unit 1: Following the Water
This program will link the resources of the Maryland Heritage Authority, the Lower Eastern Shore Heritage Area (LESHA), Maryland Traditions, the Ward Museum, public and private schools, and other cultural agencies to enrich student learning experiences with traditional arts and cultural heritage themes into K-12 classrooms. The Lower Shore Traditions Curriculum and Activity Guide will give schools and teachers the tools to initiate quality cultural heritage programming in their classrooms.

Other Training Opportunities:
Project Learning Tree: Pre K-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide
Project WET: Curriculum & Activity Guide (K-12)
Project WILD: K-12 Curriculum & Activity Guide