| Area teachers who want to study such insects as Madagascar hissing cockroaches, Vietnamese walking sticks, blue death feigning beetles and Chilean rose-haired tarantulas and pass that knowledge onto their students can do so this summer at grant-funded workshops at the R. M. Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis.
Openings are still available for two teachers' workshops, set from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., on Saturday, July 8 and 15 in 1124 Academic Surge, UCD campus.
The Bohart Museum recently received a grant from Teichert Foundation of Teichert, Inc., Sacramento, to fund two teachers' workshops and two students' camps. The students' camps filled up within several days, but openings are still available for the teachers' workshops as of June 4, said museum director and entomologist Lynn Kimsey and Danielle DuCharme, coordinator of education and outreach.
"We hope to draw teachers from a wide array of schools," DuCharme said. "The hope is that teachers will learn concepts they can pass on to classrooms for many years to come."
The Teichert Foundation grant provides full tuition and transcript fees for 21 teachers to receive one continuing education unit through 10 hours of education about insects.
Founded in 1946 and dedicated to teaching, research and service, the Bohart Museum houses some seven million specimens in its worldwide collection.
The collection focuses on terrestrial and fresh water invertebrates. The museum is also home to the California Insect Survey, a storehouse of the insect biodiversity of California's deserts, mountains, coast and central valley.
Further information on participating in the workshops is available from DuCharme at 752-9555. The Web site is http://bohart.ucdavis.edu. |
