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Teacher Ecology Camp
June 6, 2022 @ 9:00 am - June 10, 2022 @ 5:00 pm
14th Annual Dr. Harold Albers Teacher Ecology Camp
Join us for Teacher Ecology Camp 2022!
Our annual TEC is a science camp for educators which combines presentations from the local scientific community with practical in-the-field experience.
This year there will be three interactive workshops for teachers and other educators. You can take one, two or all three workshops.
Space is limited. Please email Laura Packard with any questions.
Ask your district for component point approval. Pinellas County is approved.
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The vision of benefactor Dr. Harold Albers, Teacher Ecology Camp is a science camp for educators which combines presentations from the local scientific community with practical in-the-field experience. Teacher Ecology Camp is presented at no charge to educators in collaboration with Sensing Nature biologists & environmental educators, Jeanne Murphy and Brian Lane.
In the past, St. Petersburg Audubon Society awarded yearly scholarships to two teachers to attend the National Audubon Teachers Camp at Hog Island, Maine. Due to economic and restructuring issues, the Audubon camps at Hog Island were cancelled. Dr. Harold Albers turned those unfortunate events into one spectacular achievement for our chapter – our first teachers’ ecology camps. Our goal is to train and to inspire teachers who would then instill an understanding and awareness of wildlife and habitat conservation in their students. The purpose of the environmental education camps is to increase the environmental knowledge of the participants and to provide environmental curriculum and activities that the teachers could take back into their classrooms.
LEFT: Dr. Gabe Vargo giving a birds of prey presentation at the 2016 Teacher Ecology Camp.
The vision of benefactor Dr. Harold Albers, Teacher Ecology Camp is a science camp for educators which combines presentations from the local scientific community with practical in-the-field experience. Teacher Ecology Camp is presented at no charge to educators in collaboration with Sensing Nature biologists & environmental educators, Jeanne Murphy and Brian Lane.
In the past, St. Petersburg Audubon Society awarded yearly scholarships to two teachers to attend the National Audubon Teachers Camp at Hog Island, Maine. Due to economic and restructuring issues, the Audubon camps at Hog Island were cancelled. Dr. Harold Albers turned those unfortunate events into one spectacular achievement for our chapter – our first teachers’ ecology camps. Our goal is to train and to inspire teachers who would then instill an understanding and awareness of wildlife and habitat conservation in their students. The purpose of the environmental education camps is to increase the environmental knowledge of the participants and to provide environmental curriculum and activities that the teachers could take back into their classrooms.