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"The Aquaculture in Action program was developed in 1998 by the MD Sea Grant Extension Program to enhance professional development for teachers in the area of recirculating aquaculture and start a network of schools that can use aquaculture as a tool for teaching science and other related concepts. The program is designed for K-12 teachers to gain "first-hand" experience with aquaculture and how it can be used as a "tool for teaching" science concepts at all grade levels. Teachers learn applied skills, build their own 210-gallon recirculating system, and gain significant content knowledge through the course of a one-week workshop and then receive support throughout the school year from MD Sea Grant Extension program staff. The AinA program engages teachers and students in topics including:

• Building and maintaining a recirculating system
• Monitoring and correcting water quality problems in aquaculture
• Designing systems that incorporate aquaponics
• Learning techniques for handling fish and using anesthesia
• Calculating the size of a biological filter
• Determining biological loading capacity of a recirculating system
• Learning the role of bacterial biofilms in biological filtration
• Measuring fish growth using appropriate methods
• Learning how to use the on-line database for Aquaculture in Action

For more information visit the website, www.mdsg.umd.edu/Education/AinA. Workshops are offered every other year during the summer. The next workshop is planned for the summer of 2008."