Jun
19
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.
Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm
Date: 2010-08-12
For more information, check out the LEP Mequon Workshop Flyer
Tags: aldo, conservation, leopold, lep, wisconsin, workshop
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Mar
12
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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Nov
12
If you are not receiving the Leopold Education Project’s Strides e-newsletter and would like to, please send your email address to criley@pheasantsforever.org. The Winter Strides will be coming out the first of December. If you do not want to receive it directly, but still want to check it out, come back to this website after December 1. Happy Thanksgiving!
Tags: e-newsletter, lep, Strides
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Aug
26
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.
Tags: bench, fundraising, lep, projects
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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
Tags: Activities for Educators, leopold, lep
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