Bay Backpack: The Year Ahead
As Bay Backpack’s one-year anniversary approaches, my first year at Bay Backpack begins. I am very excited to start taking on management of this valuable resource and am look forward to collaborating with everyone who is interested in Bay-related Environmental Education.
I come from a family of teachers. My mom, dad, sister, uncle, and aunt are all employed as public school teachers in Maryland. As a new member of Bay Backpack’s management team, and as someone with first-hand knowledge of how hard teachers work, one of the things that has impressed me the most about this website is its scope. Having such a wide variety of Chesapeake Bay and environmentally focused lesson plans, training events, and funding opportunities in one place provides teachers with easy access to a wealth of information and ideas for their classrooms. The number of resources at this exciting site amazes me, and the great thing is that there are still so many more we can add!
At Bay Backpack, we hope to continue expanding to provide a wide range of resources to help educate and foster stewardship in students and staff alike! Our Teaching Resources section, for example, will continue to include a variety of new and updated programs. Be sure to keep checking back as we add more government resources, including National Park Service, NOAA, and EPA programs and curricula.
In the coming year, everyone here at Bay Backpack wants to make sure that this website continues to provide teachers with as much environmentally focused assistance as possible, and we are always looking for feedback. If there is a field study that is missing from the site, a lesson plan you would like to share with the teacher community, or a suggestion for how we can improve Bay Backpack, please contact us. We are always looking to expand the Bay Backpack community and to share great ideas with our users, so feel free to recommend resources or talk to us about writing a guest blog. In 2011, we look forward to remaining THE source for Chesapeake Bay education resources, field studies, trainings and funding opportunities for educators.