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Linda Smith is currently the Elementary Science Resource
Specialist for the Paulsboro
School District in Gloucester County. Her job is to teach teachers
how to do Hands-on Science in their classrooms. Currently she visits
42 Classes/892 students biweekly to demonstrate hands-on science lessons.
She does in-service workshops for both her district teachers and for
state and national teacher organizations. In addition to her classroom
duties, Linda coordinates her school's annual Science Fair and has partnered
with Mobil Exxon and Valero to have Scientists come after school weekly
to help students with their
projects. She also runs the school's annual Space Camp and advises the
elementaryschool yearbook.
Linda received her B/A in Elementary Education from Glassboro
State College in 1978. In 1995 she received a scholarship to train
with NASA astronauts at the Goddard
Space Center in Maryland for two weeks in their NEWMAST
Program. She spent a summer as an intern for PSE&G
in their Estuary Enhancement Program where she help with a mitigation
project to restore 50,000 acres of wetlands. During that time she also
put together the Wetlands Discovery Kits and created a network where
every teacher in Salem, Cumberland and Cape May Counties can borrow
the kits free of charge through their County Video Libraries.
Smith is a State facilitator for the national environmental
programs Project
WET, Project
Wild, Aquatic Wild, Learning
Tree, Bridges
to the Natural World, and WOW;
a member of the state environmental education advisory board, NJNREC;
Gloucester County's Keyleader in the National
Building a Presence for Science program, Vice President, Southern
Region of New Jersey Science Teachers
Association, President and Newsletter Editor for the Council
of Elementary Science-New Jersey, and sat on a panel to norm the
state ESPA test this summer and last. She was also on the panel to revise
New
Jersey's Core Curriculum Science Standards.
In 1999 Linda Smith was awarded the national Presidential Award
for Excellence in Teaching Math & Science. In 2000 she was named Teacher
of the Year for the Paulsboro School
District, and again in 2004. In 2000 she was also named Gloucester County
Teacher of the Year. She was one of five finalists for New Jersey Teacher of
the Year in 2000. She has been awarded NJ-BISEC's (New Jersey Business, Industry,
Science Education Consortium) Distinguished Service Award, Outstanding Facilitator
Award for Projects Learning Tree, WET and Wild, and the Audrey Brainard Make
a Difference Award from the Council of Elementary Science-New Jersey.
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