{"id":71702,"date":"2000-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-12-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/narragansett-bay-classroom-course-for-teachers\/"},"modified":"2000-12-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-12-13T00:00:00","slug":"narragansett-bay-classroom-course-for-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2000\/12\/narragansett-bay-classroom-course-for-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Narragansett Bay Classroom Course for Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tBrings Global Change Issues into the Classroom&#13; Narragansett, RI &#8212; December 13, 2000 &#8212; The Narragansett Bay Classroom at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography is offering a course designed specifically for educators that will answer all kinds of questions about global warming, ozone loss, sea-level rise, and the health effects of environmental degradation. &#13; \tGlobal Change Education includes nine classroom sessions and two Saturday field sessions. The classroom sessions will run on nine Wednesdays from February 28 to May 2 (no sessions on March 14 and April 18), from 4 to 6 :30 p.m. at the Coastal Institute Conference and Visitor Center on the 溏心vlog免费B站 Bay Campus in Narragansett. The 6-hour field sessions will be held on two consecutive Saturdays at coastal sites beginning on May 5 at 9 a.m. &#13; \tThe course will cover a variety of topics, including world population, biodiversity, national legislation, and mitigation. Teachers will be introduced to the science issues relating to human impact on environmental systems as well as social, political, and economic systems that affect the environment. The instructor is Gail Scowcroft, Associate Director of Marine and Environmental Education in the 溏心vlog免费B站 Office of Marine Programs.&#13; \tCost for this course is $495 per person. A for-credit option to earn graduate credits to satisfy Rhode Island teacher certification requirements is also available. For further information about the for-credit option, course content, or registration procedures, call 溏心vlog免费B站&#8217;s Office of Marine Programs at 401-874-6211.&#13; Visit the GSO website at http:\/\/www.gso.uri.edu\/&#13; Contact:\tLisa Cugini, 874-6642, lcugini@gso.uri.edu  \u00a0\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brings Global Change Issues into the Classroom&#13; Narragansett, RI &#8212; December 13, 2000 &#8212; The Narragansett Bay Classroom at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography is offering a course designed specifically for educators that will answer all kinds of questions about global warming, ozone loss, sea-level rise, and the health effects of environmental degradation. &#13; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}