Jul
27
Exploring the Outdoors with Aldo Leopold CD
Now available in LEP Merchandise. The latest and greatest new LEP resource is “Exploring the Outdoors with Aldo Leopold,” an activities guide on CD. All activities are organized by themes, and through hands-on experiences teach about observation skills, stewardship, plants and animals, management and outdoor skills. The 16 easy-to-use activities include background information on the subject, a list of needed supplies, procedure cards and appropriate handouts. Also included is a power point on teaching digital photography. All of the activities relate to the writings of Aldo Leopold in A Sand County Almanac. This activities guide can be used by interpreters, naturalists, park rangers, zoo educators, teachers, youth group leaders, PF and QF chapter volunteers and others who want to offer a learning experience in an outdoor setting. The CD sells for $15 or $20 with a copy of A Sand County Almanac.
Product Number: 920100000
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Apr
17
Family Nature Nights feature hands-on play
BY JULIE ANDERSON WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
A new consortium formed to foster nature-based play for area children is launching activities that will provide hands-on opportunities for families and a community forum to plan future efforts.
The group is hosting five Family Nature Nights at local elementary and middle schools. Each will offer at least 15 hands-on, nature-based play activities for children and their families, said Christine Jacobsen, chairwoman of the coalition and education specialist with the Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District.
The first Family Nature Night was Thursday; more are planned next week and in May.
The group, Metropolitan Omaha Resources for Exploring (MORE) Nature, was formed by more than a dozen area nature organizations, including the Papio-Missouri NRD, the Henry Doorly Zoo, the Omaha Children’s Museum, the Hitchcock Nature Center, the Lauritzen Gardens, the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and the Green Hearts Institute for Nature in Childhood.
The group’s goal was spurred by author Richard Louv’s best-selling book “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.”
The consortium will sponsor an introductory Community Forum on Nature Play on April 28 at the Treetops Restaurant at the Henry Doorly Zoo.
The forum will feature an introductory session about the issue and small-group sessions to discuss in more detail how to restore active outdoor play.
The forum will start at 7 a.m. with a light breakfast. The introductory session will begin at 7:30 a.m. Those interested in attending should RSVP to Jacobsen at 315-1713 or cjacobsen@papionrd.org.
For more information, see www.MORENature.info.
Contact the writer: 444-1223, julie.anderson@owh.com
Copyright 2009 Omaha World-Herald. All rights reserved.
Tags: Activities for Educators, Children, Louv, nature
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Jan
5
Thanks to funding from two separate U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grants, the Leopold Education Project will be announcing new activities in 2009.
Lessons in a Land Ethic for Non-formal Audiences
Using A Sand County Almanac, there will be 15 new activities geared to all ages and family audiences for nature centers, parks and zoos. The activities have themes and deal with such broad topics as observation skills, service learning and stewardship, plants and animals, management, outdoor skills, and nature through literature. Currently, they are being piloted and evaluated and the finished activities should be ready Spring of 2009. Kansas LEP State Coordinator Melissa Arthur has served as project manager for this grant.
Note: Workshop training will not be required to purchase the materials.
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Tags: Activities for Educators, GPS, grants, Materials
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Dec
19
On a frigid January day, this group listened to a reading in the warmth of the nature center and then headed outdoors to do a little tracking and discovery of what lives on the land of the Gwynne Conservation Area in Madison County.
When we say community, it can mean many things. The Oxford American Dictionary gives these definitions: 1) a body of people living in one place or district or country and considered as a whole; 2) a group with common interests or origins; 3) fellowship, being alike in some way. I like the “fellowship” concept because it allows people to come together from different places and share something they have in common. In that sense, we can create different communities. Leopold recognized the importance of community in respect to land, because he knew that when people belong to a community, they treat it differently. If they would see land in that respect, they would care for it differently. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Activities for Educators, community
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