Workshop Spotlight
As a part of our fall 2015 course offerings, MƒA partnered with the BioBase and the Billion Oyster Project to provide MƒA teachers with a mini-course that focused on hands-on restoration science. Over three sessions at the BioBase, the MƒA teachers worked on modern oyster gardening field science protocols and practiced them at an East River field site, with the goal to enable teachers to gain an understanding of how their classrooms can become involved in the ongoing, collective effort to improve the New York Harbor by way of the oyster. The Billion Oyster Project, whose mission is to restore one billion oysters and support STEM education programs, wrote about the course on its blog:
“All three sessions required teachers to design, build, and monitor their own experimental oyster reef tanks. Teachers worked in small groups to establish experimental theories, test hypothesis through oyster growth monitoring alongside various water quality parameters. At the conclusion of each session, teachers collected and analyzed their results with a final presentation session in which each groups offered some conclusions and lessons learned.”
Read more on the Billion Oyster Project blog.