BLM NEWS RELEASE
ELY — This school year, 32 educators from Arizona, Nevada and Utah will pass on to their students lessons learned at the Great Basin Teachers Workshop, hosted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in partnership with other federal and state agencies, local businesses and non-profit organizations.
The five-day workshop, held July 17-22 at Camp Success in the Schell Creek Mountains east of Ely, is directed toward educators’ grades K-12 looking to implement inquiry-based science projects into their classrooms through hands-on discovery of “Energy in the Great Basin.” Subjects rotate annually between biology, geology, archaeology and this summer’s topic, energy.
This year’s workshop was sponsored by the BLM, Great Basin National Park, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada Division of State Parks and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Workshop participants hailed from as far away as Glendale, Ariz., and Ogden, Utah, as well as Alamo, Battle Mountain, Carson City, Dayton, Ely, Eureka, Fallon, Fernley, Glendale, Lamoille, McGill, Spring Creek, Sun Valley and Verdi, Nev.
To learn more about the Great Basin Teachers Workshop, contact Martha Braddock, workshop coordinator, at (755) 289-1802 or [email protected] .
