After having taken the training offered by the Sea Grant Program about the educational guides, Prof. Chardmary Rosario, from the San Andrés Episcopal College in Mayagüez, designed a Marine Sciences Elective course. She used the curricular guides about Puerto Rico’s marine ecosystems as a base for the course. This course is offered to students at a higher level and corresponds with an entire school year. The students currently enrolled in the course are very interested with the variety of ocean-related subjects and are eager to learn. As part of the support offered by the Program, we took them on a fieldtrip to Playita Rosada in Lajas so they could see firsthand the mangrove forest and seagrass bed ecosystems, the organisms living therein, and their importance. During this trip, students rotated across several stations dedicated to mangrove forests, seagrass beds and marine invertebrates, sand composition, lionfish and meteorology. While students made their way across the stations, they demonstrated their knowledge about different topics, with mangrove being the topic they best understood. The teacher had already taught them everything related to this ecosystem using the Sea Grant Program’s educational guide. In the classroom, they had seen photographs of mangrove trees and appreciated seeing the real trees during the fieldtrip. They were able to easily identify the trees. Students had a very enriching experience and were very excited to be there since the fieldtrip afforded them the chance to see and interact with the ecosystems; their perception of them improved significantly.
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- Educational Guides
- Curricular Materials
- Implementing the Educational Guides
- Luis Muñoz Marín School
- José Rodríguez de Soto Elementary School
- Sergio Ramírez de Arellano Bilingual School
- Eva and Patria Custodio Franqui High School
- James Garfield Elementary School
- San Conrado College
- Catalina Morales de Flores School
- San Agustín College
- San Sebastián Mártir Academy
- Ana Hernández Usera Elementary School
- San Andrés Episcopal College
- CROEM visits the Tres Palmas Marine Reserve
- Segundo Ruiz Belvis School
- DNER Camp
- 4H Program Camp – SEA, RUM
- Lajas Cultural Center Camp and Francisco María Quiñones School of San Germán
- Sabana Grande Students Visit Playita Rosada
- Homeschooling group visits Playita Rosada
- Students from the Ramón Olivares Elementary School enjoy their first field trip to Magueyes Island
- Alumnos de la Escuela Superior Segundo Ruiz Belvis aprenden sobre diversos ecosistemas marinos y costeros en Playita Rosada
- Great educational experience at Playita Rosada for students from the Dr. Rafael Pujals Intermediate School
- Students visit Playita Rosada in order to learn about marine environments
- Training About the New Educational Guide: Coral Reefs
- Training about Puerto Rico’s Marine Ecosystems Educational Guides
- Magueyes Island Fieldtrip
- Playita Rosada Fieldtrip
- Punta Ballenas Nature Reserve Beach Cleanup
- The Ecological Tourism Student Club (CETE, by its Spanish acronym) Continues to Grow
- Rewarding the social commitment in youths working on Sea Grant Program initiatives in Tres Palmas Marine Reserve
- Teachers receive training about the marine ecosystems’ educational guides