This program brings together university faculty, practicing middle-school and upper elementary teachers and pre-service teachers to work collaboratively as “teacher-researchers.” The Chesapeake Bay is the context in which these teacher-researchers will conduct research and consider critical curricular linkages to the middle and upper elementary school classrooms.

SOLstice will focus on the substance of the disciplines in science and the development of good “disciplinary thinking.” Participating teacher-researchers will be immersed in both the complexity of authentic scientific investigations and the challenges of transferring scientific knowledge to multidimensional civic issues and to the classrooms.

This course includes online study, field work, and online analysis/wrap up.