{"id":72168,"date":"2000-03-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-03-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/narragansett-bay-classroom-course-for-teachers-brings-global-change-issues-into-the-classroom\/"},"modified":"2000-03-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-03-09T00:00:00","slug":"narragansett-bay-classroom-course-for-teachers-brings-global-change-issues-into-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2000\/03\/narragansett-bay-classroom-course-for-teachers-brings-global-change-issues-into-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Narragansett Bay Classroom Course for Teachers Brings Global Change Issues into the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tNarragansett Bay Classroom Course for Teachers  Brings Global Change Issues into the Classroom&#13; Narragansett, RI. &#8212; March 9, 2000 &#8212; The Narragansett Bay Classroom at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography is offering a new 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; Global Change Education includes nine classroom sessions and two field sessions. The classroom sessions will run for 8 consecutive Wednesdays beginning April 26, from 3:30 to 6 p.m. and on one Saturday, June 10, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Coastal Institute Conference and Visitor Center on the 溏心vlog免费B站 Bay Campus in Narragansett. The 4-hour long field sessions will be held on two consecutive Saturdays at coastal field sites beginning on May 13 at 8:30 a.m. &#13; The 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. Instructors are Gail Scowcroft, Associate Director of Marine and Environmental Education in the 溏心vlog免费B站 Office of Marine Programs, and a team of 溏心vlog免费B站 Outreach Scientists.&#13; Cost 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; x-x-x&#13; Visit the GSO website at http:\/\/www.gso.uri.edu\/&#13; Contact:\tLisa Cugini, 874-6642, lcugini@gso.uri.edu&#13;   \u00a0\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narragansett Bay Classroom Course for Teachers Brings Global Change Issues into the Classroom&#13; Narragansett, RI. &#8212; March 9, 2000 &#8212; The Narragansett Bay Classroom at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography is offering a new course designed specifically for educators that will answer all kinds of questions about global warming, ozone loss, sea-level rise, and [&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-72168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72168","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=72168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}