The Oklahoma Energy Resources Board is hosting a teacher workshop March 28 at Okmulgee High School from 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. Teachers who attend will walk away with hundreds of dollars in free classroom supplies, professional development credit hours and a free field trip for their students.  
OERB workshops instruct teachers how to use one of the OERB's eight energy and science curricula in their classrooms. The curricula provide teachers from kindergarten through 12th grade hands-on lessons to educate their students about the oil and natural gas industry. The high school curricula also incorporate Language Arts and Social Studies.
OERB workshops are free of charge, and train teachers in how to appropriately use the curricula in their classrooms. Upon completion of the workshop, teachers go home with a free box of supplies, worth up to $1,200, a teacher's guide and are mailed a $50 stipend for attending. Teachers who complete a curriculum also receive a free field trip for their classroom, and six hours of professional development credits.
The OERB is in its 19th year offering these free workshops. The hands-on curricula reach students at all ages and grade levels. The OERB provides the Little Bits program for early childhood education, Fossils to Fuel and Fossils to Fuel 2 program for elementary students, a Petro Active program for middle school students CORE Energy for high school students, which offers a Language Arts, Social Studies or Science curriculum. Each curriculum uses lab experiments, reading assignments, games and more.