We offer a variety of professional development programs for teachers that help bring the unique coastal resources of New Jersey to the K-12 classroom. Our goal is to provide New Jersey educators with the scientific content, pedagogy, and curriculum resources to integrate marine/ environmental concepts and themes into existing science curricula in accordance with the New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards. We use the coastal environments of New Jersey as learning laboratories, to help schools improve their ability to provide interdisciplinary, collaborative, student-centered, hands-on, and engaging learning environments for their students.

Reference: Environment as an Integrating Context (EIC) (Lieberman and Hoody 1998). F. Liberman and L. Hoody, 1998. Closing the achievement gap: Using the environment as an integrating context for learning. Poway, Calif.: Science Wizards.