Teacher Programs

A Classroom Course in Community Resilience

Community Resilience in the Classroom promotes K-12 student awareness of watersheds and their connections to the Gulf of Mexico through classroom and field instruction in climate change and rising sea level, especially high tide flooding and increased storm surge. Students work in teams to address an authentic challenge in community resilience. Selected teams from each school compete in a Stewardship Summit judged by community resilience professionals. Since 2016, over 1000 students from 12 schools in Mississippi and Alabama have completed the program in person or virtually. This program was developed through a grant from NOAA's Bay Watershed Education and Training Program (B-WET) and in partnership with Mississippi Alabama Sea Grant Consortium. Curriculum.

Sturgeon in the Watershed

The purpose of this project is to develop and implement a Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience in the Mississippi Sound watersheds. The Project uses previously developed classroom and field elements of map use and water sampling to teach students basic watershed concepts. New content introduces habitat use of the Pearl and Pascagoula Rivers by the endangered Gulf Sturgeon as a way of discussing natural and human changes occurring in watersheds where participating students live and learn. Curriculum.

SeaPerch and Blue Tech

This workshop is affiliated with the International SeaPerch Challenge.

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October 27-28, 2023

Engage students with hands-on engineering and underwater robotics experience through SeaPerch and Blue Technology Field Days.

This two-day workshop is designed to prepare teachers to get involved with STEM and Blue Technologies through the SeaPerch competition. Teachers will learn about the competition and how to guide students in building their own remotely operated vehicles to compete in the regional SeaPerch competition. Winning teams have a chance for a paid trip to the international SeaPerch Challenge where they can compete for scholarships! By the end of this workshop, teachers will be equipped to teach students to build and operate their vehicles, and will understand the rules needed to create teams and enter them into their regional competition. Participants will learn from ocean engineers and hydrography researchers as they demonstrate the use of some of the most advanced ocean technologies! 

CEU’s and stipend available.

Changing Coastlines

This workshop is sponsored by Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium.

June 2024

This workshop for STEM teachers highlights how coastal ecosystems change in response to processes like storms and sea level rise. The workshop will focus on the history and ecology of Deer Island. Teachers will explore transitions among beach, marsh, upland, and subtidal habitats during a field excursion to collect elevation profile data. Teachers will synthesize the data for comparison with past data collection efforts. This workshop offers teachers the opportunity to learn outdoors and gain the knowledge to teach advanced marine science subjects, including coastal restoration and resilience. Teachers will receive stipend and CEU support. This workshop is sponsored by the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium.

Classroom Course in Community Resilience

Gulf Guardian Award-winning program

        This project is sponsored by the NASA Science Activation Program

June 2024 

Are your students worried about the future and climate change?

Join us for this workshop on promoting community resilience to coastal hazards like rising sea level. Participating teachers (7th-12th grade) will work in teams to explore historic flooding in their neighborhoods, consider factors that increase community resilience, address an authentic community resilience challenge, and present their solution. They will model the activity and receive the manual to instruct their students. Selected teams of students that complete the module will be invited to present solutions to resilience professionals at the MEC Stewardship Summit. This workshop is a collaboration with USM’s Marine Education Center and MSU’s Coastal Research and Extension Center through the NASA SCI-ACT project.