[MLTI-MS] EcoScience Content Meeting Incentives

[Juanita Dickson]

This year there is a new program on all 7th and 8th grade laptops  
called Ecobeaker Maine Explorer. (It looks like a beaker with ME on  
it). Check out your applications folder.
This program has been designed expressly for the MLTI program by a  
dedicated group that includes 23 Maine middle school teachers. Each  
"lab" within the program visits (virtually) a different habitat in  
Maine and uses that habitat to explore ecological concepts such as  
runoff, succession, keystone predators, invasive species and the "edge  
effect". Plus there is a 6th unit that lets students see "under the  
hood" and get their first glimpse at computer programing. Each lab is  
designed to take just one to two weeks of instructional time.
Ecobeaker comes with Noteshare notebooks with complete lesson plans,  
handouts and assessments, all aligned with the new MLRs. Each lab has  
a specially designed field exercise that brings students outdoors.
This fall at the MLTI subject area conferences, the teachers who have  
helped design this program will be training others. (See http://www.maine.gov/mlti/events/content/index.htm 
  ). This is a great opportunity to learn from teachers who have been  
using this program in their classrooms for the past three years.
EcoscienceWorks will pay $50 towards a substitute for your day. By  
attending you will be entered into a drawing for an ipod shuffle. One  
will be given away at each MLTI content meeting for EcoscienceWorks.  
Plus for the first 100 teachers who use one of the labs and the  
programming component (Program a Bunny) in their classroom, there is a  
$100 incentive.
Hope to see you all at one content meeting. Details regarding  
substitute reimbursement will be provided at the meeting.

Thank you, The MLTI Team



* Please share this email with all teachers in your building, as many  
are not on our mailing list.




Juanita Dickson (Deschambault)
M.L.T.I.
Maine Department of Education
23 State House Station
Augusta Maine 04333
(P) 207-499-7142 (7:30am - 4:00pm)
Visit MLTI on the web at http://MaineLearns.org and http://mlti.org




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