The Bay Area Science Project Institute Presents: “Taking Science Outside”

Applications are now being accepted for Bay Area Science Project (BASP) Institute Summer 2010. The Institute will be held June 21-25 from 9:00 am – 3:30 pm at the Oakland Zoo.

The focus will be Life Sciences as it can be taught outdoors. Now more than ever, in this era of textbook learning and texting, it is critical to get students, and ourselves, outside the confines of the four classroom walls. We will be partnering with the Oakland Zoo, Stopwaste.org, and other environmental organizations, to create a rich and exciting program for you and your school. We will have creek walks and activities at the Zoo, visit a school garden, and learn how to map our immediate surroundings in order to get ourselves and our classes to learn from those surroundings. We will learn life science content, how to use the science notebooks outdoors, and much more.

Participants will:
-Receive half of registration fee paid by school/district as stipend upon completing the 5-day institute
-Receive free curricular materials and a lunch each day
-Receive a $200 stipend for attending 4 outdoor follow-ups during the academic year*
-Be eligible for Upper Division/Post BA units (at participant’s own expense)

COST:
Sliding scale from $400-$1,200 registration fee per teacher to be paid by school or district

HOW TO APPLY
Please email application requests to Claudio Vargas B. or Joanna Totino at basp@berkeley.edu or by phone at (510) 643–3478.
- Priority will be given to applicants applying in teams from the same school
- Fax completed applications to (510) 642-1055 attention: “BASP Outdoor Summer Institute”

APPLICATION DEADLINE
Open until filled (Dependent on funding)