2000 NCSTA Award Winners

District #1 Outstanding Science Teacher

Sophie Jordan---Griggs Elementary School

Sophie Jordan is an LD resource teacher at Dr. W.T. Griggs Elementary School where she is lovingly known as "Mother Earth." She pursued her love of nature through workshops and other studies and earned the NC Environmental Teacher Certification. She has been a leader in developing the natural habitat of her school for outside learning opportunities for all teachers and students. Programs such as Project Wild, UTOTES, and Museum on a Cart have been at her school. Sophie is now on the planning committee for the new Whalehead Environmental Education Center on the Outer Banks. This will be an outstanding educational benefit for all students who visit it. And Jordan is to be thanks for all of this and more that she has done for the students of her school and all of NC.

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