Teacher participates in workshop

Thanks to the Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program, teachers from 43 Ohio counties are heading back to their classrooms with an insider’s look into Ohio’s thriving natural gas and oil industry. Equipped with a first-class curriculum, classroom supplies, science labs and experiments, materials kits and more, teachers who attended OOGEEP’s STEM and Geology Teacher Workshops are more prepared than ever to bring energy education to Ohio’s students.

Matt McCormick, a teacher at Lorain County Joint Vocational School, participated in the geology workshop held in New Philadelphia.

OOGEEP holds teacher workshops throughout the year to help foster energy education by connecting STEM and geology education and the energy industry. The curricula for both of OOGEEP’s workshops were designed by teachers, for teachers, to be integrated directly into Ohio’s educational standards. Teachers spend a full day in the classroom before heading out on a unique, industry-related field trip to see Ohio’s energy development in action.

Thanks to the generosity of Ohio’s natural gas and oil producers, OOGEEP provides these workshops at absolutely no cost to Ohio teachers or their school districts. The industry covers all expenses for teachers to attend the twoday workshops, as well as a wide variety of free resource materials, lab supplies, lesson plans, classroom posters and maps, rock and mineral kits, internet resources and activities all for them to bring back to their classrooms.