From rroperti at zoominternet.net Mon Mar 2 12:39:47 2009 From: rroperti at zoominternet.net (rroperti at zoominternet.net) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 12:39:47 -0500 Subject: [PAEE] PAEE conference Message-ID: <094f01c99b5d$e1b6d7d0$6501a8c0@D9V66M11> PAEE annual conference deadline is Wednesday, March 4. You can still register up until the conference, but it costs PAEE additional money to add you to the count late, so we have to pass that cost on to you. Don't miss this exciting conference! Ruth Roperti 965 Edgewood Road Beaver Falls, PA 15010 rroperti at zoominternet.net 724 843 7046 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <0b9301c99d0d$087571a0$6501a8c0@D9V66M11> Sorry, I accidentally hit an email I had sent long ago. Ruth Ruth Roperti 965 Edgewood Road Beaver Falls, PA 15010 rroperti at zoominternet.net 724 843 7046 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rroperti at zoominternet.net Tue Mar 10 02:41:00 2009 From: rroperti at zoominternet.net (rroperti at zoominternet.net) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:41:00 -0500 Subject: [PAEE] Fw: PAEE conference Message-ID: <149101c9a14b$2d05be20$6501a8c0@D9V66M11> Greetings! Please look over the list of workshops below planned for the PARTNER strand by Rob and George of Shaver's Creek. What a line-up! ! ! Do you really want to miss this conference??? There are 6 more strands just as exciting planned by Heidi, Melissa, and Ruth, not to mention field studies, a Caldecott author with an environmental concern, a world know folksinger, and a keynote who put herself on the line for the environment and went to jail. Registration is way too low. I know it is hard economic times, but your presence is needed. So I am looking for a way to make it possible. The biggest part of the advertised conference costs are meals. That is also what makes it necessary for PAEE to charge you a late registration fee. Try this: NO MEALS! Find the registration form at www.paee.net and put it in the mail today to Beth as directed OR show up at the conference with it. (Hey send me an email that you are coming. It will lift my spirits!) Here is what you should put on the registration line for costs: Full conference - NO MEALS: Individual $130 Retired $120 Student $100 You can attend everything that is going on ALL DAY and EVENING except; One day -NO MEALS: (write this in) Individual $85 Retired $75 Student $55 Field Study to Lincoln Caverns $15, McCutcheon Concert $35 Consider adding these to your registration You don't have to starve!! Rent a Villa - they have a complete kitchen. (Not bath towels, but you can manage that :-) . The rent for $134/ night. There are 2 rooms with queen beds and a pullout couch in the livingroom and a room sharing connector on our website. If you are coming just for a day, you can use my villa #9 for making and eating your lunch. Any questions? rroperti at zoominternet.net 724 843 7046 24/7 Yoiu are needed!!!!!!!!!! This is a vital time for environmental education. Meet me at Raystown! Ruth #4 A Multidisciplinary Approach to EE Using Simulations and Public Scholarship. Jim Hamilton and George Vahoviak (Friday, 3/20, 3:45-4:45) Jim Hamilton is an Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Science, Technology and Society at Penn State Mont Alto. George Vahoviak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management at Penn State University Park and a Program Coordinator at Shaver?s Creek Environmental Center. Public Scholarship is a phrase used to describe such things as service learning and getting students engaged with various out-of-class communities. This session will focus on the integration of non-academic resources to teach environmental topics at various levels from high school through graduate school. In fact, educators at any level can use this approach. Drs. Hamilton and Vahoviak have worked with people from various disciplines and backgrounds?including business directors, food service executives, police officers, maintenance staff, local retirees, local school district members, county planning commissions, and local YMCA employees? who have benefited from the Multidisciplinary Approach. #1 and 2 Working Across Silos: An Experiential Learning Opportunity (2 hours) Rod Lee & Will Wise (Friday, 3/20, 8:30-10:40 - 2-hour session) Rod Lee is a Program Director at Shaver's Creek Environmental Center and an Instructor in the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State's, University Park Campus. Will Wise is a facilitator at Shaver?s Creek Environmental Center and a facilitation consultant for The Race Relations Project at Penn State's, University Park Campus. This experientially based session will focus on exploring the challenges of working across organizational boundaries. Our focus will be on the key success factors in working together as individuals and among groups. #3 Charcoal Iron Making and Its Effects on the Environment Paul Fagley (Friday, 3/20, 2:15-3:15) Historian and Cultural Educator Paul Fagley brings alive the history of the people and places at Greenwood Furnace State Park Deforestation, erosion, air, water, and soil pollution ?environmental issues that are a hot topic today. They are also relevant to the past. Charcoal iron production stripped acres of trees, spewed ash into the air, and generated tons of cinder and slag, which was dumped everywhere. But were these effects on the environment truly bad? Join Greenwood Furnace State Park?s Cultural Educator Paul T. Fagley for a fascinating look into the environmental effects of charcoal iron production, how citizens and government came together to reclaim denuded forest lands, and some of the surprising repercussions lingering today! March 21 #7 Permaculture, Experiential Learning, and Nonviolent Communication Bob Flatley and Kelle Kersten (Saturday, 3/21, 2:15-3:15) Bob Flatley is a long-time SOL member, chair of the local Sierra Club group, and a librarian at Kutztown University. He is also a founding member of the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Association (MAREA) and helped organize the first PA Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Festival. Ahimsa Village is an evolving permaculture demonstration site and community resource center located near State College, PA. We strive to create a deeper understanding and concern for the natural world through educational programs that stress enjoyable and active, hands-on learning. Kelle Kersten has over 5 years of experience working with troubled kids and teens. She worked at a ?boys camp? in the mountains of western Maryland and worked at a residential facility for troubled pre-adolescent boys near Allentown where she coordinated a garden therapy program with the Rodale Institute. In addition, Kelle has over 10 years experience as an organic farmer. She is an organic farm inspector and currently has a small CSA (community supported agriculture) farm. #8 Transforming Asphalt and Turf Dominated Schoolyards: Enhancing Ecoliteracy in Students through Landscape Design Projects and Processes Julie Hendrickson (Saturday, 3/21, 3:45-4:45) Julie is trained as a landscape architect and works as an Ecological Designer for Applied Ecological Services in Conshohocken, PA In recent years, a major movement has swept across the globe aimed at helping to reconnect youth to their outdoor environment. Many landscape architects have been closely involved with this movement. In this session, Julie will discuss the work being done within the field of landscape architecture to transform asphalt and turf dominated schoolyards into greener, more ecologically sound environments for playing, learning, and teaching. Julie will provide an overview of the principles and practices of designing and restoring school landscapes and how these processes and outdoor spaces can be linked to environmental education curriculums. She will provide practical tips and principles for designing schoolyards that are faced with real life issues, such as limited time, money and long-term maintenance regimes. Julie will provide a list of design principles, helpful tips for engaging students in landscape restoration and design processes, and resources so that these projects can be implemented on schoolyards everywhere - from tiny urban lots to expansive suburban and rural properties. #5 Designing Science and Literary Partnerships Paul Gregory and Kristen Joivell (Saturday, 3/21, 8:30-9:30) Paul Gregory: teaching for over 33 years at Juniata Valley Elementary School, Science Club Advisor for 22 years, Summer Enrichment coordinator for 11 years, founding member and teacher at the ATOMS program, winner of a variety of state and national teaching awards, Kristin Joivell: teaching for 10 years at Juniata Valley Elementary School, Science Club Advisor for 6 years, teacher at the ATOMS program and JV Summer Enrichment program. #6 Slow Food for your Fast Life Anne Corr (Saturday, 3/21, 9:40-10:40) Anne Quinn Corr is an instructor in the department of nutritional sciences and teaches a senior level course on international foods for School of Hospitality Management at Penn State. She has been writing for the Centre Daily Times since 1985 and is a bi-monthly columnist with State College Magazine. A caterer for 25 years, Corr champions local foods and the people that produce them in her print media and on her Centre Daily Times online blog, Eat Local! She has been the leader of the local Slow Foods Central PA chapter since she helped to inaugurate it in 2001. Anne Corr, author of the cookbook Seasons of Central Pennsylvania, will be presenting a history of the Slow Foods movement that started in Italy in 1986. She will discuss why it is important today, in spite of how busy we all are, to maintain the sanctity of the dinner table, filled with local, healthful foods. She also will do a short cooking demo of a seasonal recipe and serve samples of Tait Farm Raspberry shrub, one of our Slow Food Ark products. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I have attended this workshop the last two years, so if you have questions just ask. rroperti at zoominterenet.ent Ruth ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan McGuire To: affiliates at naaee.org Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:07 AM Subject: [affiliates] Coordinator job for workshop The professional development committee of the Affiliates Network is beginning to plan the Affiliates workshop for the 2009 NAAEE conference in Portland. An EETAP grant provides funding to hire a workshop coordinator. The responsibilities for this position are: a.. work with the committee to design the workshop b.. create an on-line survey of affiliates to gauge interest and/or need for training in particular topics c.. coordinate workshop logistics with the NAAEE conference planners d.. arrange for speakers as needed e.. manage the scholarship process f.. manage all the reporting documents, including paperwork for in-kind contributions by scholarship recipients, the workshop evaluations, and final summary report to NAAEE (for EETAP) The stipend for the coordinator is $3,000. To apply, send a letter of interest outlining your relevant experience to the email address below. Deadline for application is Friday, April 3. If you have questions, please feel free to contact me. Thanks, Sue McGuire Chair, professional development committee 307-734-5461 smcguire at bresnan.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pam at naturebytheyard.com Mon Mar 23 08:29:07 2009 From: pam at naturebytheyard.com (Pam Newitt) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:29:07 -0400 Subject: [PAEE] Another resource Message-ID: Hi This is my first post to any listserv, but I couldn't help responding to some of the suggestions for book resources listed in the PAEE newsletter article. I published a book in August, 2007 called Nature Inside Out- A Leader's Guide to Nature Education Programs. This book offers 12 complete programs that are seasonally appropriate. Topics range from Insects, Nature Detectives and Seasonal Changes to Life Cycles, Butterflies and Habitats. Included in each chapter is background information on the subject, indoor activities, outdoor activities, songs, suggested picture books and an art project. I've taken a multi-disciplinary approach to incorporating nature education into the curriculum of Pre-K through 5th grade students. It is a great resource guide for teachers, parents and home-schooling parents as well as scout leaders and camp directors. The book is available through Amazon.com or the publisher, I-Universe http://iuniverse.com Thanks for helping get the word out. Pam Newitt Nature By The Yard -- Visit us on the web From adevine at state.pa.us Mon Mar 23 11:36:53 2009 From: adevine at state.pa.us (Devine, Ann) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:36:53 -0400 Subject: [PAEE] Upcoming Peregrine Falcon Workshop Message-ID: <21F1DB4CCF74A24D955C79B50F0F4145116217F2C9@ENHBGMBX03.PA.LCL> Join the PA Game Commission, PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and ZOOAMERICA for a free, WILD in The City: Peregrine Falcons, workshop from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 2, 2009, at the Rachel Carson State Office Building in Harrisburg. Workshop participants will EXPLORE the successes of peregrine falcon reintroduction in Pennsylvania; EXAMINE falcon specifics and endangered species concepts; and OBSERVE falcons in Harrisburg. Participating teachers are eligible for 5.5 Act 48 credit hours. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. If you are interested in registering for the workshop, please contact Ann Devine, from DEP, by email at adevine at state.pa.us for a registration form. The workshop registration deadline is March 26, 2009. Thank you for your interest, and if you have any questions, please let me know. Ann Devine | Environmental Education Regional Program Coordinator Department of Environmental Protection Rachel Carson State Office Building 400 Market Street | Harrisburg, PA 17101 Phone: 717.772.1644 | Fax: 717.705.4093 www.depweb.state.pa.us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Each article will highlight an important area of EETAP's work and extend the storyline to similar efforts by other programs. The intent of the articles is to inform about trends in environmental education and their significance for the field and its practitioners. The audiences for the articles are formal and non-formal educators who are working to improve learning and increase the environmental literacy of their students and program participants. EETAP will accept proposals for writing one or more articles through April 24, 2009. It's anticipated that contracts will be signed in May 2009 with work to be completed within three-months of the signing date. For additional information please request a complete description from Sharon Courtney (Sharon.Courtney at uwsp.edu). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Every location that is dark will signify a vote for the earth and a demand that policymakers develop a new strategy for dealing with the effects of global warming. The state Capitol in Harrisburg also will dim its dome for the hour. As of now, more than 2,400 cities, towns and municipalities around the world have promised to participate in Earth Hour 2009. I ask that you also let your light switch be a vote for clean energy. For more information on this or any other state-related matter, please visit my Web site or contact me. PO Box 202250 Harrisburg, PA 17120-2250 If you no longer wish to receive alerts from the House Democratic Caucus please click HERE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Summer 2009 is your LAST CHANCE to participate in > this program! > > Participants in iGIS create LOCAL GIS data and customize the 5-lesson > iGIS curriculum supplement for use in the classroom. With the iGIS > curriculum supplement, students take on the roll of GIS specialists > examining the impacts of a proposed housing development on their local > stream ecosystem. They examine the relationships among impervious > surface, the water cycle and stream ecosystems. They delineate their > local watershed, examine the amount of impervious surface in that > watershed, and calculate stormwater runoff both with and without the > proposed development. This locally-relevant, technology-rich curriculum > supplement is very well aligned with several 7-12 grade science standards. > > In addition to the curriculum supplement and data, participants receive > a school site license (and training on) My World GIS, a $600 stipend, > and 2 Frostburg State University graduate credits (fee/tuition not covered). > > The professional development portion of iGIS consists of 5 weeks of > asynchronous online sessions (~5 hours per week), a 2-hour > teleconference, and a 1.5 day workshop at the Appalachian Laboratory in > Frostburg. There are two sessions to choose from (see attached flyer for > dates). For those who previously did not participate due to the large > time commitment, this is no longer a factor?there are no week-long > workshops or student institutes and no follow-up workshops required. > > Attached are the iGIS 2009 project flyer and application. 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