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Costa Rica is the backdrop where you will immerse yourself  in learning about sustainabiliity, rainforest ecology, protecting endangered species, and place-based education. Students will engage in authentic scientific research and will develop and practice tools and strategies for incorporating place-based science and environmental education. 

You will travel to the Osa Penninsula in Costa Rica, the perfect context within which to learn about sustainability and environmental issues. You’ll monitor wildlife species in the rainforest and on the coast. Jaguars and howler monkeys call the inland forest home, and you'll tend to camera traps to collect data. On the coast, students will participate in a monitoring program involving green & olive ridley sea turtles, both critically endangered species.. The data you collect – on turtle numbers, sizes, and locations - will be used (by you!) to develop a field-based research project.

Using the inquiry-based educational framework developed by the North American Association for Environmental Education as well as the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Next Generation Science Standards, you’ll learn and practice strategies for making field-based science and environmental education approachable and meaningful to your students. 

This program will partner with the Ecology Project International (EIP) group for program logisitics and in-country support.

For information, click on this link or reach out to Patty at pselly01@hamline.edu