Exciting Opportunities for Educators
 Teacher Resource Night
in Santa Cruz and Watsonville
Monday, January 12, 2009, 4-6 PM
at The Museum of Art & History, downtown Santa Cruz
Monday, January 26, 2009, 4-6 PM at the Watsonville Library
Infuse your curriculum with great new ideas to inspire your students.
Peruse booths representing more than twenty central coast organizations
that offer educational programs representing the arts, sciences,
and teacher enrichment while enjoying wine and hors d’oeurvres.
Bring your family and enjoy an afternoon of crafts for the kids,
free resources, presentations, and a raffle for fabulous prizes!
Learn how educational organizations in Santa Cruz County including
The Museum of Art & History, the Seymour Marine Discovery Center,
Santa Cruz Public Libraries, Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History,
Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County, and many more help support
fun and creative teaching strategies!
This free event will be held twice this year:
Monday, January 12, 4-6 PM
The Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street in downtown Santa Cruz
Monday, January 26, 4-6 PM
Watsonville Library, 275 Main Street, Suite 100, Watsonville
For more information, call The Museum of Art and History at (831)
429-1964, extension 20, or education@santacruzmah.org.
Watershed Cruzin' Educator Workshop
January 21, 2009, 4-6 PM
 Excite your students about exploring the great outdoors! Grade
4-8 teachers and educators are invited to join the Santa Cruz County
Resource Conservation District (SCCRCD) and the Seymour Center on
Wednesday, January 21, 2009, from 4-6 PM, for a free teacher workshop
on Santa Cruz County watersheds. Find out how to effectively fulfill
state education standards while using your local environment and
agency resources to help your students learn about streams, rivers,
ponds, and wetlands in their own neighborhoods. Julia Davenport,
Watershed Cruzin' creator, will lead the workshop along with two
mentor teachers.
 Workshop participants will receive:
* New 2008 Watershed Cruzin' grade level specific activity booklets,
featuring classroom-ready curriculum that applies science and
history content standards to local, place-based activities. Worksheets
available in English and Spanish.
* CD with historical Santa Cruz County photographs and GIS
mapping data
* $50 materials stipend
* 10% discount at the Ocean Discovery Shop
* Refreshments
This free workshop will be held at the Seymour Center. For more
information, or to register, contact the SCCRCD at (831) 464-2950
or juliad@cruzio.com. Watershed Cruzin' is supported by NOAA's Bay
Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) program.
Marine Masterpieces
6th Annual Student Art Contest
 Creating art is an important way for students to communicate the
amazing beauty of ocean life that marine scientists strive to understand
and conserve. Encourage your students to enter their original artwork
in the Seymour Center's sixth annual Marine Masterpieces student
art contest.
Winning artwork will be displayed in the Seymour Center's public
exhibit gallery in April and May 2009. An awards reception for the
winning artists, their teachers, and families will be held at the
Seymour Center on Saturday, April 4. The awards ceremony for winning
students in grades K-5 will begin at 12 PM. The ceremony for winning
artists in grades 6-12 and the group category will begin at 2 PM.
Prizes for students and teachers include Seymour Center T-shirts,
books, art supplies, memberships, and free future field trips!
All artwork and entry forms must be received at the Seymour Center
between February 3-17, 2009. *
(*The original entry deadline was February 13, but has been extended
to February 17.)
Before beginning artwork, carefully read all contest details
and submission rules on the entry form.
Click
here for
the 2009 Art Contest Rules and Entry Form.
(You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view/print the entry form. Download
a free copy of Acrobat Reader here.)
Click here to view contest
winners from Marine Masterpieces 2008.
Click
here to view contest winners from Marine Masterpieces 2007.
Click here to view contest
winners from Marine Masterpieces 2006.
Click
here to view contest winners from Marine Masterpieces 2005.
Click here to view contest winners
from Marine Masterpieces 2004
Sea Search: A Marine Science Program
for High School Teachers and Students
 Sea
Search is a marine science program designed to provide
high school science teachers with an easy way to incorporate marine
science into their curriculum, and to provide opportunities for
high school students to become engaged in science through the
Seymour Center’s ocean-themed exhibits, programs, tours,
and volunteer opportunities.
 Realizing
that logistical and financial challenges make it difficult for many
high school teachers to coordinate learning-based field experiences
for their students, Sea Search is a marine science program
students can participate in on their own time and outside of school
hours. Sea Search is easy on teachers (requiring
almost no prep time), and enriching, yet challenging for students.
The Sea Search curriculum is aligned with California
Science Content Standards.
For more information on Sea Search, including how the
program works and how to get your students involved, click
here.
Seashell Science Education Kit
 The Seymour Center has partnered with the Santa Cruz Museum of
Natural History (http://www.santacruzmuseums.org) to offer a new
seashell education kit for teachers. The Seashell Science kit contains
shells representing nearly 30 species of marine animals from Monterey
Bay. Curriculum suggestions for grades K-2 are included, focusing
on adaptive features of seashore animals. Activities are aligned
with California Science Content Standards and challenge students
to sharpen their observation skills, while incorporating language
and creative arts. In addition to the shell collection and curriculum,
the kit also includes activity sheets, answer keys, two reference
books, and a teacher preview pass to visit the Seymour Center.
To learn more about the Seashell Science kit call the Seymour
Center at (831) 459-3800.
Seashell Science is now
available. To
reserve
Seashell Science or other education kits for loan from
the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, call the museum at (831)
420-6115. Kits are available by reservation only.
Predatory Bird Research and Conservation
School Assemblies
 The Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group (SCPBRG), based at
Long Marine Lab was instrumental in the effort to bring the peregrine
falcon back from the brink of extinction, and now they want to
share the inspiring story of the peregrine with your students.
Scientists and educators from the SCPBRG are available to visit
your school for assemblies and class visits for students in grades
three through adult. Students will meet a live peregrine falcon
during the presentation, learn about the peregrine’s amazing
adaptations for survival, and hear the stories of the dedicated
scientists whose work led to the removal of these fascinating predators
from the Endangered Species List. Great teaching resources and
activities for your students are also available.
For more information
or to schedule an assembly, visit the SCPBRG web site at http://www.scpbrg.org,
or e-mail falconet@ucsc.edu.
Activities and Resources
Take advantage of ready-to-use learning activities
and resources on a variety of marine science
topics. Make the most of your field trip or
science unit with these activities. Also,
find useful suggestions for organizing your
class visit to the Seymour Center.
Click
here to view activities and forms.
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