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Mar
18
The Seno Center located in Burlington Wisconsin is hosting a Leopold Education Project Workshop on June 11, 2011. Sponsored by a grant from the Wisconsin Environmental Education Board and Pheasants Forever the workshop provides participants with and opportunity to experience hands-on learning about the environment. The Leopold Education Project is an innovative, interdisciplinary educational program based on the classic writings of the renowned conservationist, Aldo Leopold.
K-12 educator, non-formal educators, natural resource professionals, conservation leaders and land owners are all invited to attend. The goal of the workshop will be to build environmental values while gaining understanding of Aldo Leopold’s writings, life and philosophy. Participants will review the curriculum guides and create new lessons and materials for use in a variety of situations. For details see the attached workshop flyer.
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Jan
26
Join us Thursday April 21 from 1 pm to 4 pm at the Environmental Adventure Center UW-Eau Claire (Hilltop Basement)for a wonderful Leopold Earth Day Summit followed by an optional biking outing into the lower Chippewa River corridor down river from campus at UWEau
Claire. This Educator Workshop will leave you inspired as you read and contemplate the words of Leopold and fascinated as you learn about “reading the landscape”. The activities will cover plant and track identification, ecological relationships and more. The workshop may change the way you think about the natural sciences. Understanding becomes real when students can see, touch and experience the natural world around them. Don’t miss out! Call us now to sign up. Summit Eau Claire
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Jan
20
Hey, all you LEP’ers out there! Here’s a set of 16 mini task cards developed by Celeste Prussia, Missouri LEP State Coordinator. Each card includes a brief quote from A Sand County Almanac that you can print on label stock and affix to the back of your business card – or – use the filesformatted for journal inserts to print inside a workshop journal, with or without writing space depending on your preference. Three different files for three different formats.
Have fun with these as ice-breakers, reflective moments, ponderings during wanderings, or anytime the may serve you.
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Jan
8
Title: Teaching Outdoors with Aldo Leopold
Location: Concordia Center for Environmental Stewardship, Mequon, WI
Description:
The curriculum materials are designed for use by teachers, interpreters, naturalists, park rangers, zoo educators, youth group leaders, as well as private citizens. Each lesson, based on Leopold’s writings, provides students with direct experiences to the natural world outside the school classroom by making greater use of the outdoors as a learning laboratory. Lessons are presented in an easy to use format. Leopold’s writings are both sound science and excellent literature, making them an outstanding tool for meaningful environmental education. This curriculum encourages flexibility, creativity, and experimentation in using the lessons in a variety of subject matter areas. It uses hands-on critical thinking activities to not only teach students about nature and conservation but to instill what Leopold called a “land ethic”, an appreciation of and respect for the land.
LEP Flyer
Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm
Date: 2011-4-9
For more information, check out the LEP Mequon Workshop Flyer
Tags: wisconsin, workshop
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Sep
3
Title: Leopold Meets the Happy Hollow Zoo
Location: Happy Hollow Park and Zoo, San Jose, CA
Link out: Click here
Description: This educators workshop is teaming up with the Happy Hollow Park and Zoo to join forces to learn about Leopold’s Land ethic. Join us for a day in the zoo, learning these activities followed by a day in the Rancho Canada del Oro Open Space Preserve. Special Needs Welcome!
This is a ONE TIME DEAL event: You may bring 3 people for the price of ONE if you are willing to share the resources. (In this tough economic time, OSA is looking to help interested folks get trained in the Leopold Education Project. Grab two buddies, split the $35 charge and share your books and you can join us for this training. Getting the message out is the most important part!) Hurry, spaces are filling fast. This deal is restricted to 1 group per agency/organization, unless we have space left over.
Call Teri Rogoway at (408) 224-7476 to reserve your space now. (If you want your own books and can pay the $35, let me know and I will order them for you.)
Start Date: 2010-11-6
Start Time: 10:00
End Date: 2010-11-7
End Time: 15:00
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