December STEM on Tap: Phenology

Grab a drink, pull up a chair and connect with other grade 6 -12 STEM teachers at STEM on Tap! This workshop series connects STEM teachers with practitioners, resources, and each other. Each workshop will take place at a brewery around the southwest metro and feature a different STEM practitioner and topic.

You will receive a certificate for 2.0 hours of continuing education credit at the conclusion of the workshop.

Dinner will be provided for participants, but you are responsible for your own drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic).

Josh Leonard, Education Director at Belwin Outdoor Science

Find out how phenology will connect you and your students to nature while keeping your fingers on the pulse of climate change in your own backyards. This workshop will provide hands-on strategies for using seasonal observations to inspire students to embrace climate science. Come prepared for a brief 10-minute outdoor phenology walk (weather permitting).

Schedule:

4:30-5:00: Dinner and networking

5:00-6:00: Presentation

6:00-6:30: Questions and networking

About the presenter:

As Education Director at Belwin Outdoor Science Center, Josh leads outdoor science programming for 10,000 students in Saint Paul Public Schools each year. Josh has worked to provide students with quality environmental education and teachers with professional development to help them strengthen their outdoor science instruction. He has dedicated his career to connecting kids to nature.

Josh was named MN Environmental Educator of the Year (2016), and MN Science Teacher of the Year (2023), and in 2021 Josh received the Alumni Service Award from the College of Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota for “increasing access to nature and removing barriers for communities of color.” Josh helped launch the Minnesota Phenology Network to help track climate change in our state.

This workshop series is sponsored by Nine Mile Creek Watershed District and Riley Purgatory Bluff Creek Watershed District.

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