Educator Workshop: Digital tools for observing & documenting nature

Engage your students and visitors with an annual worldwide bioblitz—the City Nature Challenge! Join educators and scientists from Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Powdermill Nature Reserve, and organizations throughout southwestern PA to explore applications of the City Nature Challenge (and associated free apps iNaturalist and Seek) to observe and document nature in neighborhoods and backyards, and make connections between human activities and local plants and wildlife. This virtual workshop will introduce digital resources you can use with your groups and provide opportunities to think collaboratively about how to adapt activities for different needs, including supporting in-person and/or virtual learning.

Funding is available to reimburse your school or district for substitute teacher costs on the day you attend this workshop. Act 48 credit is available upon completion & receipt of a two-hour-long activity to be done asynchronously.