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Personal Biography on Dwight Sieggreen
These lesson plans were written by Dwight Sieggreen, a Master Science Teacher at Cooke Middle School in Northville, Michigan.
During his twenty-seven years of teaching, Mr. Sieggreen received the National
Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching in
1992, the National Chemical Manufacturers Association,
Catalyst Award in 1996 and was co-winner of the Michigan
Science Teacher of the year in 1987.
Mr. Sieggreen participated in two Earthwatch Expeditions,
Coral Communities of Fiji and Lost Cultures of Lac De
Neuchatel in Switzerland. He also participated in two
University Research Expeditions, Blue Monkeys of Kenya
and Alaska Sea Birds. He visited Denali National Park for
the first time in 1988 and again in 1991, 1992 and 1995.
His University Research Expeditions project, Alaska Sea
Birds, was on St. George Island in the Pribiloff Islands
of Alaska. On the last visit to Alaska, Mr. Sieggreen
traveled to the Brooks Range, 350 miles north of
Fairbanks, Alaska. Mr. Sieggreen also studied the floura
and fauna of the Amazon Basin in Peru in July of
1982, 1983 and 1984.
In July of 1995 and 1996, Mr. Sieggreen was facilliator
of the NSTA Global Change Workshop held at the California
Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He
served as an Executive Board member of the National
Science Teachers Association and as Director of District
X of NSTA. He was president of the Michigan Science
Teachers Association, 1992-1994.
Mr. Sieggren has presented at numerous NSTA Area
Conventions and National Conventions for the past several
years and is a contributing author of a number of
publications. He has been a consultant for the Louisiana
Systemic Initiative, The Bronx Zoo, Georgia Pacific and
the American Plastics Council.
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