Lancaster teacher gets rare opportunity, travels to Antarctica, Falkland Islands, and shares what she learned with students 

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  Aniya Faulcon is The Spark Host/Producer for WITF. She has a passion for shining a light on unique people, experiences, and perspectives within the community.
  
  Previously she worked as the People and Social Trends Reporter/Video Anchor for LancasterOnline | LNPNews. During her time there, she created video packages, provided Facebook Live coverage at community events, and wrote data-driven stories with census data and feature stories on local leaders, non-profit organizations, events, and people with unique talents and experiences within Lancaster County.
  
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 Katie Harnish

Katie Harnish, 4th Grade teacher at Hambright Elementary School that participated in the Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship, in Antartica for the program

Airdate: March 6th, 2023

A 4^th grade teacher at Hambright Elementary School in the Penn Manor School District in Lancaster was one of only fiftey K through 12 teachers in the U.S. and Canada to receive a “professional development opportunity of a lifetime.”

Katie Harnish participated in the National Geographic and Lindblad Expeditions Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship, that gave her the opportunity to take a twenty-four day trip to the Antarctica and the Falkland Islands to study with biologists, naturalists, underseas specialists and photographers to learn about the environment and wildlife in those places.

Susan Dorsey

Katie Harnish, 4th Grade teacher at Hambright Elementary School that participated in the Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship, in Antartica for the program

Harnish joined us on The Spark Monday to discuss her experience with the fellowship and how she’s using what she learned to enhance her science lessons in her local classroom.

Harnish has been sharing her experience on her trip and teaching her students and students across the region about the Antarctic, its animals and why it’s important to care about that area. Also, she’s been developing lesson plans to share with National Geographic for the benefit of other educators and students. In her lesson plans she will focus on keystone species and the impacts that certain animals have on the ecosystems.

“I think that I always want my students to say, ‘wow’ at some point throughout the day about something because the world is really fascinating,” Harnish said. “And if we’re not illuminating that for kids, like I don’t know if we’re doing our job. So I think that I was so just completely blown away by the experience that when I came back, I was full of ‘wow’ and I just wanted to share that with everybody.”