National Park Hosts Summer Programs for AP Teachers

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Received from Acadia Partners, Acadia National Park, Winter Harbor, Maine

Acadia National Park Hosts Summer Programs for AP Teachers

Acadia Partners has set the 2010 summer schedule for its Advanced Placement Summer Institutes for teachers on the seaside Schoodic Education and Research Center campus in Acadia National Park, Winter Harbor, Maine. This opportunity is offered in cooperation with the College Board. Thanks to generous donors, we are able to offer significant scholarship support to teachers participating in this program. For more information visit www.acadiapartners.org/APSI.

Acadia Partners for Science and Learning offers Advanced Placement Summer Institutes on the Schoodic Education and Research Center (SERC) campus in Acadia National Park. The park provides a unique setting for intense work with other teachers and institute instructors. There are accommodations for participating teachers on the SERC campus at Schoodic Point, surrounded by spruce and fir forests and the Atlantic Ocean. In 2010 we will be offering AP summer institutes in biology, environmental science, calculus, and statistics.

The campus will be undergoing an exciting transformation over the next two years and there will be construction occurring on some parts of the campus during the summer of 2010. However, the construction will not affect the classes, dining hall, or living quarters.

Note that scholarships are available for teachers from Maine as well as for experienced teachers from other states. See the Scholarship Application for more information.

The biology and advanced environmental science institutes take advantage of the National Park’s unique resources and the variety of rocky intertidal environments around the campus. Both of these institutes are geared for instructors who have already had experience in teaching AP biology or environmental science and who have perhaps already participated in another summer institute. The focus in both of these institutes will be on incorporating more inquiry learning into the coursework. For example, the AP Biology institute will engage teachers in an extended inquiry exercise in the intertidal areas around the campus. Teachers will use this field experience to reflect on and plan for using fieldwork around their home schools to bring experiential learning dimensions to the courses that they teach. This particular institute will complement indoor lab work that is often covered in detail in other AP summer institutes.

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