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Information for Teachers and Students

PPA offers a variety of resources to educators and students, including teacher training, a Pinelands-based curriculum, and customized field trip experiences.

Students from Medford's Memorial School hike across a footbridge on the Batona Trail. © Kevin Sparkman

	Teacher Resources & Training PPA offers a variety of resources to teachers, including training programs, curricula, and customized field experiences. Learn More
	Black Run Summer Teacher Institute 2009 Pinelands Preservation Alliance held an intensive environmental education and stewardship institute for Evesham Township middle and high school teachers based on local conservation lands, called the Black Run Preserve, in the Pine Barrens of Evesham Township. Learn More

4th Annual Life Science Field Training Institute, June 21-25, 2010

A multi-day field science experience for educators in order to strengthen field-based investigations
in their teaching and improve student performance. Program highlights include:

• Canoe trip and investigation of aquatic habitats of the NJ Pinelands

• Transects and vegetation analysis

• Biodiversity and community ecology

• Species area curves and population dynamics

• Tour of the Rutgers University Pinelands Field Station

• Merging field exercises with service projects

Professional development credits available. Three (3) graduate credits through Rutgers University are also available.

Click here for more information and a registration form.

Click here to register online.

PPA is pleased to have the support of the Bonazzi Foundation for the Promotion of Science Education for our education program.

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Here is a "heartsong" written by a Marlton Middle School student about the NJ Pinelands:

Pinelands Heartsong

Why do you pass me by,

Without a second glance?

As they rip out my soul

Branch by branch?

Industrialize! Commercialize!

They say and do this every day.

But I scream in protest,

To let me go from their metal grasp.

I was born in New Jersey,

And fear that's where I will die

Please help me soon,

Rid me of these malicious machines.

Iron, glass, cranberries,

They are all made and picked on me

I am used like a rag-

Torn up and thrown out to dry.

My animals, their habitats destroyed,

Have no place to go,

On their death bed they are,

Because of merciless men.

Farming was all over,

And put to good use,

Now with all these mini-malls,

I see no more open land

One more time I will plead,

For my life

And my species.

For when I am gone-

I will never come back.

Dillon McNamara

Marlton Middle School