Most often, the trip originates in the teacher s back yard , at a River that is in the county where the teacher teaches. But, the main goal of this trip is to change the lives of the participants through exposure to the resource in the hopes that they will teach about the Bay in their classrooms. Summer Teacher Trip is that it prepares participants to use one of the interdisciplinary, middle school CCC modules with their students during the course of the trip. During the trip, teachers do most of the curriculum activities in a field context and have the opportunity to look through the module. When the trip is over, the participants get the module and the resources they need to implement it in their classrooms.
Teachers also receive training in service-learning projects to benefit the Bay.
However, because the curriculum training is taking place in the context of a regular 5-day trip, teachers are also exposed to the Bay in much the same way that they would be on a regular trip. The urban teachers trips that CBF has run have been distinguished mainly by the fact that they take place almost entirely in the urban environment, exploring the resources that this environment has to offer and the specific issues that it faces. The trips have also differed in that they have included few or no overnight stays, relying instead on homework assignments to meet the required hours. While participants are not immersed in the Bay ecosystem, the trips focus on building awareness of urban environmental issues, as well as more general Bay issues, sensitivity to the environment, and skills for implementing environmental learning in the classroom. The Restoration Trip A restoration teachers trip would feature a week of building skills and knowledge directed toward one large, or several smaller, restoration projects.