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Teacher Resources & Events
Teacher grants available for Environmental Education:
Teacher grants available from the National Environmental Education Foundation http://newsletters.nationalgeographic.com/W0RH01E937293D1C3621F2A3F544E0
To help provide teachers around the country with support for their innovative work to bring environmental education into the classroom, the National Environmental Education Foundation is launching the Classroom Earth National High School Challenge—an opportunity for up to 25 teachers to secure as much as $5,000 to $10,000 in funding to bring innovative environmental themes into their coursework. Visit www.neefusa.org to learn more and to download the application.
presents
To Kill a Mockingbird
WUMB Radio / University of Massachusetts Boston
From January through June 2008, several dozen events and activities inspired by the book, will take place in Eastern Massachusetts. Please visit: http://www.wumb.org
Wet our Appetite
Cuisine for Critters Recipe Contest!
There's a Bog Bake-Off, What will you Make?! A Duck invited Yu to a Potluck at the Prairie Pothole. What will you Bring?! Cattail Kabobs? Salamander Salsa? Two-fly Pie? You Decide! Click here to download our PDF and learn more.
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Want to include immigration in your teaching?
Want to understand your immigrant students?
NEED FREE PDPs?
Teaching Immigration Across the Curriculum
12 PDPs in one weekend Jan 12 & 13, 2008
at The Immigrant Learning Ctr., 442 Main St., Malden
9 to 4 each day – lunch included – free of charge
- History of Immigration – Past & Present Compared with connections to the MA Curriculum Frameworks
- Facilitating the Debate – Immigration’s Benefits & Burdens
- Metaphors for Immigration – Melting Pot, Salad Bowl or something else? Issues of Integration & Assimilation
For further information, contact Marcia Hohn (mhohn@ilctr.org or 781-322-9777)
NEED GRADUATE CREDIT?
Join the online, graduate level course “Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development: Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration” - UMass Boston intersession program Jan. 7 to 25, 2008 - 3 credits & 45 PDPs – course #1145 at ccde.umb.edu)
This course is designed for K-12 and community-based educators student, student teachers and others interested in the development of content-based ESL curriculum. The course content will focus on current perspectives on immigration and integrating immigration topics into lesson planning. Contact Carol Chandler for more information or call Continuing Education 617-287-5914
Attention Elementary Teachers & Students: WGBH is currently doing a call for entries for Postcards From YOU, a very special feature of the popular “Arthur” and “Postcards from Buster” series. Here’s a chance for your students to become mini PBS documentary filmmakers and to have their stories told nationwide on Arthur and on the WGBH website. For more information and ideas, visit http://pbskids.org/buster/pfy/send.html
You can download a very useful information sheet to help get you started!
The Junior Duck Stamp Contest
“Celebrating 16 Years of Conservation Through the Arts”
This national arts-in-education program provides students with an opportunity to learn about habitat, the environment, and local waterfowl – and to articulate their newfound knowledge by drawing, painting or sketching a picture of an eligible North American waterfowl species. For more information and curriculum, please visit www.masswildlife.org
Entries must be postmarked by March 15, 2008. Students from Massachusetts submit drawings to state coordinator:
Pam Landry, Education Coordinator
MassWildlife
1 Rabbit Hill Road
Westboro, MA 01581
(508) 389-6310
pam.landry@state.ma.us
NEW! Buttonwood Park Zoo is hosting a youth drawing class to prepare students for participation in the Junior Duck Stamp contest. Join artist Maura Conron for this free workshop for students K – 12. Space is limited and you must pre-register at (508) 991-6178 x 22. You will be given the start time of the workshop when you register.
World Water Monitoring Day
WWMD is designed primarily as an education and awareness-raising activity to bring communities closer to their local water bodies. It’s a fantastic science activity that works well for both the classroom and as a family project.
An easy-to-use kit enables everyone from children to adults to sample local water bodies for a core set of water quality parameters including temperature, acidity (pH), clarity (turbidity), and dissolved oxygen (DO). Results are then shared with participating communities around the globe through the WWMD website. The monitoring period extends from September 18th until October 18th.
Please visit www.worldwatermonitoringday.org or email meg.tabacsko@mwra.state.ma.us and cc Deby Elenter at Deborah.Elenter@ch2m.com for more information.
Conference Updates
We are busy preparing for this spring's conference, "Energizing Environmental Education...Going GREEN," and we hope you are looking forward to this year's conference as much as we are. If you or someone you know is interested in presenting at this year's conference, now is the time to submit a workshop proposal. Our deadline for submissions is September 21, 2007.
This year, the conference committee welcomes proposals which relate to the theme Energizing EE...Going GREEN. From global warming and alternative energy, to politics and economics of green living, Going Green is an important and timely topic both locally and nationally. Equally important is the need to Energize EE to keep it fresh and exciting for students and teachers alike. Examples of ways the theme that might spur workshop topics are:
- Plugging into EE...share tried and true activities that make the concept of Going Green realistic and achievable.
- Green hot topics, concepts, ideas such as climate change, carbon footprints, alternative/renewable energies, and more.
- Green impact and solutions in environmental education like conservation practices, innovations in carbon-based products, sustainable agriculture, state trends such as the MEEP (MA Environmental Education Plan), and more.
Proposals can be completed online or on paper and mailed to us. Either way, we look forward to receiving your ideas. For more information, to submit a proposal on-line, or to download the proposal form, please visit the MEES Conference webpage.
For more information contact presenters@massmees.org.
Thank you,
The MEES Board
2008 Conference of the Massachusetts Environmental Education Society:
"Energizing EE...Going GREEN"
March 5, 2008
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
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