This New Jersey SeaGrant Consortium-funded professional development initiative helps support K-8 teachers in New Jersey to:

• include marine science topics in their lessons

• address climate change

• effectively use the Next Generation Science Standards

To date, we've held our three workshop series with three cohorts of incredible New Jersey teachers from across the state grades preK-8. We look forward to continuing our work with an additional three cohorts over the next academic year.

We received funding to continue our work for the next two years and will begin to parter with teachers at the preschool and high school levels, preschool teachers, and specialist teachers. We also extended our scope and forged a partnership with New Jersey STEM Pathways, a strategic public-private alliance which supports STEM learning from cradle to career.

We've created and modified some fantastic lessons to help teachers integrate these topics right away. Check them out here.