Jun
22
Special Needs Special Moment
Model Magic Santa Sighting!
Archive for the ‘Teaching Resources’ Category
Mar
12
Sky Dance – Missouri Style!
From the Spring 2010 Edition of Strides available for download at http://www.lep.org/strides/
Photo U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
“The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land.” – Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
By Celeste Prussia, Missouri LEP Coordinator
Finally. I’ve been listening for years. I even shot one 20 years ago from the daylight sky of an eastern Connecticut woodland when I knew very little about the “Timber Doodle” tumble. My self-imposed, lifetime bag limit for that species ended with that bird.
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Aug
26
Exploring the Outdoors with Aldo Leopold CD Sample Activity
Landscape Scene Investigators from Exploring the Outdoors with Aldo Leopold CD.
This outstanding collection of activities is a wonderful tool to share with your students, scout groups, nature centers, parks, zoos and chapter youth gatherings. Specifically designed for those working with youth and families in a non-formal educational setting, LEP’s new activities guide is a great way to get your audience connected to nature while passing on Aldo Leopold’s concept of land ethics.
This guide features a number of hands-on outdoor activities in addition to a lesson/cd on digital photography. Don’t hesitate, order now and share the great outdoors with your audiences!
Click here to download a sample activity “Landscape Scene Investigators” from the Exploring the Outdoors with aldo Leopold CD.
Exploring the Outdoors with Aldo Leopold CD now available in LEP Merchandise.
Aug
26
Build a Leopold Bench Fundraiser or Service Project
Leopold bench instructions.
This past summer we found the Leopold bench to be an excellent fundraiser and service project. As a fundraiser, a bench was used for a raffle at both the National LEP Conference in Wisconsin and the Focus on Forever Workshop for PF/QF chapter leaders in Nebraska. In Nebraska, the raffle raised $645 for Nebraska’s LEP programs. Raffle tickets were sold for $10 or 3 for $20.
The National Youth Leadership Council built six Leopold benches as a service project for the Norris School District in Lincoln, Nebraska. Each bench had a plaque (donated by Awards Unlimited in Lincoln) and the benches were placed around the school. Before building the benches, the 14 youth learned about Aldo Leopold and his legacy to wildlife management and conservation. Afterwards, they read one of his essays while sitting on the benches.
Click here to download the directions pdf.
Apr
28
Inspiration
For those of you who view educational workshops as just that, “WORKshops,” read below. At the end of our Facilitator Workshop in February in Akron, IA, we passed around a piece of paper and asked everyone to jot down just one thought left in their mind from their experience at the workshop. As the paper was passed around, each person was to only read the most recent entry and build on it with their own thoughts. Here is the end result:
Just a thought…
Leopold has been an influence on conservation and his legacy should be continued.
I look forward to taking Leopold’s legacy and sharing it with other children and educators.
I want to teach in a way that will have a greater meaning and a greater impact.
I have learned so much more about Leopold and the importance of this man who came from my hometown. I want to teach what I have learned to the students so they have a better appreciation of this “hometown boy” who did good things!
Every experience we have to learn is our chance to teach the next person. This weekend has added to my “drive” to make moments “teachable moments”
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