I.M.E.P.
The Interdistrict Marine Education Program Instructional Shellfish Hatchery (IMEP/ISH) project is designed for selected high schools to provide an opportunity for the enhancement of knowledge in Aquaculture and Marine Sciences through the development of curriculum materials and methods dedicated to assisting students in applying lessons in "hands-on" situations.
The ISH program incorporates the Vocational Agriculture attitude of "learning through doing" as the method of education that best enables young researchers to conceptualize the abstract points in their investigations as well as providing them with the techniques necessary to achieve the definable outcomes being sought. The ISH program will provide the visiting science teachers and their classes and opportunity to learn together by exploring the science of Shellfish Husbandry. The ISH program will further provide the students who attend with a sense of understanding and a realization of the extreme importance of protecting Long Island Sound as a natural resource and that any use of the Sound, either commercial or recreational, should be done responsibly by the people of Ccnnecticut. This program will offer opportunities for cooperative learning to occur when students collaborate while working in laboratory and problem solve while engaged in group work.
The second activity will be building an Instructional Lobster Hatchery (ILH) at the Project on building on the Avery Point Campus of the University of Connecticut in Groton, Connecticut. The ILH wlil a fully functional facility that will provide the students who participate with first-hand experience in lobster husbandry.
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