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LEP Educators Workshop Orangeburg SCposted by: Tony Esposito
LEP Workshop at Albemarle Corp., Orangeburg Plant, Outdoor Learning Center
The date of this workshop is Thursday, October 21, 2010. Time: 10:00am-4:00pm.
It will be held at the Albemarle Corp., Orangeburg Plant located off of Hwy. 301/601 South, Orangeburg. The Outdoor Learning Center is in the “Hundred Acre Wood.” We will also have access to a Training Room in the plant. Albemarle Corp. is allowing us free use of their facility.
The cost of $25 covers materials, snacks and lunch.
This workshop will be an Educators workshop. There will be a future Facilitators Workshop. You must have taken the Educators workshop before attending the Facilitators Workshop.
A description of the LEP Project is below.
The Leopold Education Project (LEP) is an innovative, interdisciplinary, critical thinking, conservation and environmental education curriculum based on the classic writings of the renowned conservationist, Aldo Leopold. The Leopold Education Project teaches the public about humanity’s ties to the natural environment in the effort to conserve and protect the earth’s natural resources. It compliments existing EE curricula. Participants will receive the Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold and an 87-page curriculum guide.
Why do I feel that Leopold Education Project is a fit for conservation district employees? I have been an education coordinator for the Orangeburg Conservation District for over 10 years. I am trained in Project Learning Tree (PLT), Project WET, Project WILD, Aquatic WILD, WOW (Wonders of Wetlands) and Flying WILD. When I took the LEP course it fit all of these together. I wish I had had LEP training first. It gives the foundation on which to hang the other courses. It helps to open your eyes, ears and other senses to the environment that surrounds you.
Have you ever wondered how to learn to ID birds by their songs? Are there simple tips to ID plants in your backyard? How do animal tracks and scat fit into the ecology of the environment? How does the plants, animals, soil, water, and clouds all fit together in a never ending cycle? These are some of the questions this curriculum helps you answer.
LEP was developed by an association of eight Illinois Soil and Water Conservation Districts (Council of 16). They based it on the lessons of Gary Laib, a Wisconsin biology teacher. In 1991 it was revised by a committee of teachers, resource agency personnel, and curriculum specialists to make LEP what it is today.
Target audience: Conservation District Employees and other non-formal educators.
Contact: Diane Curlee, Education Coordinator
Orangeburg Conservation District
1550 Henley St., NE Room 103
Orangeburg, SC 29115
Phone: (803) 534-2409x.3
Diane.Curlee@sc.nacdnet.net