Earthwatch TeachLive
Welcome to TeachLive teachers, their schools and students
Earthwatch Institute is an independent, non-profit environmental organisation. Our mission is to engage people worldwide in scientific research and education to promote the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment. Earthwatch gives people the opportunity to be involved in scientific field research by becoming a member of a research team.
"This TeachLive program rejuvenates you as a teacher, gives you confidence that you are doing something worthwhile and gives concrete examples of why we teach particular skills."
2005 TeachLive Teacher, Broome, WA
Earthwatch launched a pilot TeachLive program in 2004 and sent four Victorian teachers on Earthwatch Projects across Australia. In 2005 the TeachLive program expanded, allowing seven teachers from Western Australia to join the Echidnas and Goannas of Kangaroo Island research expedition. In 2007,2008 and 2009 through the generous support of Woodside Energy , the TeachLive program allows teachers from Western Australia to join the Whalesharks research expedition at Ningaloo Reef off Exmouth and TeachLive back to their classrooms.
In 2009 the Eco-Gold Environmental Fund supports environmentally minded individuals and organisations within the community. In June 2009 Eco-Gold will send Victorian teacher, Karen Johns on the Earthwatch's Wildlife of Brazil’s Pantanal in South America to TeachLive back to her classroom and raise environmental awareness among her students. In an age of vanishing wetlands, the Pantanal must be saved as an oasis of biodiversity for an entire planet.
Visit Whalesharks of Ningaloo Reef Woodside TeachLive teams 14-21 May and 23-30 May 2009
Visit Victoria Electricity’s Eco-Gold Wildlife of Brazil’s Pantanal TeachLive from 4-16 June 2009
The 2005 Woodside TeachLive Echidnas & Goannas of Kangaroo Island, South Australia
