- BY JUSTINE BOESHORE For Grades: 2-5 Standards: English Language Arts: Standard 1: Language for Information and Understanding Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding. Standard 4: Language for Social Interaction Students will listen, speak, read, and write for social interaction. Social Studies: Standard 3: Geography: Students will use a...
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Earth Day Celebrates its 40th Anniversary
Forty years ago, on April 22, 1970, more than 20 million people converged in small towns and major cities across the United States to help launch the modern environmental movement. That first Earth Day was part teach-in, part call-to-action and part celebration. At Earth Day Network, our Education program continues a successful history of...
Summer Research Immersion Program
Huyck Preserve and Biological Research Station - Summer 2010 Fundamentals of Field Ecology – Summer Research Immersion Program Fundamentals Of Field Ecology (FFE) is a course designed for current high school sophomores, juniors and seniors interested in gaining research experience in biological science and environmental studies. FFE will prepare students to excel in college level science...
COP15: Climate-Change Conference
Lessons From the Copenhagen Climate Talks By BRYAN WALSH Monday, Dec. 21, 2009 TIME Magazine It was during the wee hours of Saturday morning when a delegate from Saudi Arabia, of all places, expressed what may have been the consensus view of the contentious final plenary session at the UN climate change summit in...
Be Out There
The National Wildlife Federation has a great website discussing their movement to get kids outside. Here is some information from their website: Be Out There engages American families, educators, healthcare practitioners, corporate leaders, policymakers, and the media in persuading others to spend more time outdoors. Our goal is to re-connect families to the outdoors...
Kaiser Permanente Creates Outdoor Classroom Space for Preschoolers
LOS ANGELES– (BUSINESS WIRE) — Inspired by the educational concept that outdoor learning and play enriches and contributes to the well being, health, and social development of children, Kaiser Permanente Watts Counseling and Learning Center today unveiled and dedicated an environmentally friendly outdoor learning space for its Preschool Education for Parents and Children (PEPC)....
Warm-Blooded Plants
http://www.damninteresting.com/ Warm-Blooded Plants Written by Cynthia Wood on 02 January 2007 If you live in the Northeastern US, and you walk in the woods on spring mornings, you’re likely to see a skunk cabbage. Indeed, you might see a skunk cabbage growing while the snow is still on the ground. What you may not...
Go outside and play
go outside and play From: Mother Earth News http://www.motherearthnews.com/Happy-Homesteader/Go-Outside.aspx THE HAPPY HOMESTEADER Self-reliance and sustainability in the 21st century. Go Outside and Play! 8/6/2008 1:51:00 PM By Heidi Hunt Do you stand in the backyard or on the front porch and yell, “Heidi, time to come home!” when your kids are outside playing unsupervised...
Summer 2012 Program for Educators
JULY 22-25, 2012
RAQUETTE LAKE in the ADIRONDACKS
Join veteran naturalists for an educational week of nature and environmental activities.
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