Climate Change: Exploring Solutions to a Complex Problem is a week-long professional development workshop for middle- and high-school science teachers developed and facilitated by Professor Laure Resplandy, Lab Manager Danielle Schmitt and former graduate student Abigale Wyatt *24. This in-person workshop took place August 19-23 in Guyot Hall. NJ PBS highlighted the worked on Spotlight News.
The QUEST (Questioning Underlies Effective Science Teaching) program is a summer weeklong, hands-on program for New Jersey elementary, middle and high school teachers.
Every summer since 2022, we have been organizing 1-week sessions on "Climate Change: Exploring Solutions to a Complex Problem”. What is the role of…
Prof. Resplandy has developed hands-on activities to illustrate oceanography concepts in elementary schools. This includes the famous “phytoplankton race” where students built phytoplankton out of plastic, metal, foam. This activity illustrates the importance of the biological pump in regulating…