Bring Your Dead Online Webinar

Hosted virtually on Zoom by The State Museum of Pennsylvania

Thursday, August 12 from 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm ET on Zoom

Fee: Free!

Act 48: 2 hrs. Act 48 credit available for certified PA teachers

Presenters - Carissa Longo, Environmental Education Program Coordinator/PA Project WILD Coordinator, DCNR - Bureau of State Parks and Susan Gallagher, Chief Naturalist, Carbon County Environmental Education Center

Good hands-on environmental education programming places something real in students' hands. Educators may have repliscat, feathers, plastic models, and limited taxidermy mounts in their education toolkit. Effectively expanding that toolkit beyond plastic models, yellowed skulls, random bones, and bad/fragile taxidermy can be tricky. Objects like wings, feet, skulls, bones, and benthic macroinvertebrates require special prep work and storage. With a little bit of guidance, you can be well on your way to building your own educational collection of dead things. 

Virtually join the "Dead Team" of Carissa Longo, PA State Parks and Susan Gallagher, Carbon County EE Center, to gain the skills needed to safely and legally curate, preserve, and care for natural history items in your educator’s toolkit. Learn why Borax is your friend, the magic of hand sanitizer, why you need to have access to a chemistry lab vent when working with Plastomount, and the value of dermestid beetles. Find out why bad jars can happen to good educators and why the trunk of your vehicle should have a "special" bin. This session will also include innovative ideas for putting teaching collections to use in your programs and tips on specimen sterilization in the time of COVID. It will not include making any of your own specimens. Register in advance for this free webinar!