WyAEE News:
2010 President's Environmental Youth Awards
Symposium and Conference - Civic Tourism III
The Leopold Education Project National Conference 2010
Resource & Environmental Education Workshop
Wyoming Project WET and Casper College will be offering several free workshops
Wyoming Game and Fish Department Opportunities
Governor Freudenthal Signs Letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in Support for No Child Left Inside Act
Sue McGuire, President of WAEE, to Lead the Affiliate Network
Environmental Education Group Recognizes Keown's Service
21st Century Youth Conservation Corps Proposal
Japan-U.S. Teacher Exchange Program for ESD
President's Environmental Youth Awards(PEYA)
Audubon Wyoming’s Regional Community Naturalists!
2010 President's Environmental Youth Awards
The PEYA program promotes awareness of our nation¹s natural resources and encourages positive community involvement. Since 1971, the President of the United States has joined with EPA to recognize young people across the U.S. for protecting our nation¹s air, water, land, and ecology. It is one of the most important ways EPA and the Administration demonstrate commitment to environmental stewardship efforts created and conducted by our nation¹s young people. One outstanding project from each region is selected for national recognition. Projects are developed by young individuals, school classes (K-12), summer camps, and youth organizations to promote environmental stewardship. Thousands of young people from all 50 states and the U.S. territories have submitted projects to EPA for consideration.
- Winning projects in the past have covered a wide range of subject areas, including:
- environmental science projects
- recycling programs in schools and communities
- construction of nature preserves
- major tree planting programs
- videos, skits, and newsletters that focused on environmental issues
Evaluation results consistently demonstrate that the experience is frequently a life-changing event for many of the young people and sponsors who attend.
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Symposium and Conference - Civic Tourism III
Communities all over the world want a healthy tourist economy. How do we get economic value while also protecting natural and cultural heritage and local lifestyles in the community? How do we get businesses, public agencies, community leaders, and local stakeholders to work together? How can this be designed around our unique and authentic stories?
The upcoming Civic Tourism III http://www.interpnet.com/civic/ meeting in Fort Collins, Colorado, August 11-14, 2010, will address the many aspects of the questions above. The theme of the conference is Helping Diverse Interests Work Towards a Common Community Goal. If you work with communities on sustainable development, heritage tourism, or interpretive program development, this meeting is for you. Dan Shilling, author of Civic Tourism: The Poetry and Politics of Place convened the first Civic Tourism Conference in 2006 in Arizona and the second was in Rhode Island in 2008. It brought participants from all over the world to an academic symposium and open conference to discuss the research and programs around this idea
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The Leopold Education Project National Conference 2010
Renewing Relationships: Connecting People and Nature Through Leopold’s Legacy
June 17-19, 2010
Registration is now open for the Leopold Education Project National Conference, June 17-19, 2010. The conference focuses on teaching skills for formal and non-formal environmental educators and methods for incorporating the thinking of Aldo Leopold -- including the concepts of a land ethic and land health -- into educational programs and discussions. The Leopold Education Project (LEP) is a national network of teachers and non-formal educators who use educational materials based on Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac in teaching. Considering the great conservation challenges of the 21st century, the need to bring Leopold’s message to a wider audience of decision makers, engaged citizens, and future generations is critical. This conference will offer new skills to develop and lead conservation and environmental education projects in your home communities. Sessions will inspire attendees with success stories of projects that creatively link individuals and their natural communities to benefit both. They will also provide participants with practical skills to take home. The conference will feature keynote speakers Scott Russell Sanders and Marybeth Lorbiecki.
- Concurrent sessions will focus on four themes
- Exploring relationships between natural and human communities
- Using Leopold's thoughts and words to connect people to their communities
- Practical methods for engaging community members
- Successful projects that connect people and nature while getting youth outdoors
The conference runs June 18-19, with pre-conference workshops on June 16 and 17.
- Registration:
- $300 early-bird (until May 15)
- $325 regular
- $175 one-day
- $30-$60 for pre-conference workshops
Location: Leopold Center, Baraboo, Wis.
Sponsors: Aldo Leopold Foundation and Pheasants Forever/Quail Forever
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Projects WET, WILD, and Learning Tree Resource & Environmental Education Workshop
Wyoming PLT, Wyoming Project WET, and Wyoming Project WILD are proud to sponsor a joint educational workshop presenting their award-winning curricula. This is a great opportunity to obtain training and manuals for all three of these outstanding educational programs in a single workshop. Each curriculum focuses on a specific resource area: forests (PLT), water (WET), and wildlife (WILD). The inquiry-based curricula meet state and national science and social studies standards, are cross-curricular, and appropriate for grades K-12. Teachers, non-formal educators, home-schoolers, youth group leaders, and anyone wanting to bring the environment into their classroom is welcome and encouraged to attend.
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Wyoming Project WET and Casper College will be offering several free workshops this summer in southwestern Wyoming
Project WET is an interdisciplinary curriculum with water as a common theme. The curriculum offers classroom ready activities in the social sciences, language arts, fine arts, and sciences. The workshop is appropriate for K-12 classroom teachers. With water as an underlying theme, these activities provide relative constructs to build upon in classrooms.
Sponsored by the Green River/Rock Springs Water Board and the Upper Green River Joint Powers Board, these workshops will be free. To reserve a spot, we ask for a deposit that will be refunded after completion of the workshop. Attached is a flyer with location and time information with instructions on how to register and reserve a spot. PTSB credit is available.
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EXPO POSTER, POETRY, AND ESSAY COMPETITION FOR WYOMING SCHOOLS
In conjunction with the Expo, we conduct a poster, poetry, and essay competition, which is a competition for all Wyoming students. This year's Expo theme is "Wyoming's Wildlife... Our Legacy." All competition entries must integrate this theme into their product. The entries that comply with the competition criteria will be displayed in the Wyoming People, Places, and Culture Gallery at Expo '10 in Casper, Wyoming, September 9th-11th, 2010. Savings bonds donated by Wyoming businesses will be awarded to the winners. The first, second and third place winners in each category will receive a $200, $150, and $100 savings bond respectively. All winners will also receive an award ribbon, certificate and complimentary one-year subscription to Wyoming Wildlife magazine. In addition, winners will also have the opportunity to be recognized at the Expo '10 Awards Banquet, held in Casper during the Expo.
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Governor Freudenthal Signs Letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in Support for No Child Left Inside Act
Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal cosigned a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, along with several other U.S. governors, in support of the No Child Left Inside Act that will be before both houses of Congress in 2010. The Act will fund Environmental Education across the nation in states with Environmental Literacy Plans.
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Sue McGuire, President of WAEE, to Lead the Affiliate Network
Executive Director of NAAEE, Brian Day (left), with officers of NAAEE and the Affiliate Network. Sue McGuire is third from left..
What is the Affiliate Network?
The affiliate organizations formed the Affiliate Network of NAAEE to network, support, and gain new perspectives through shared learning. The Affiliate Network provides a forum for ongoing dialogue and activities that work to enhance Environmental Education capacity at all levels. The Network strives to improve efficiency, greater effectiveness, and a stronger and more unified voice for EE on the provincial, state, territorial, regional, national, and international levels.
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Environmental Education Group Recognizes Keown's Service
Oct. 19, 2009 -- A national environmental education association has presented its top individual award to Duane Keown, retired UW professor of science education.
He received the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) 2009 Distinguished Outstanding Service to Environmental Education by an Individual Award at the group's recent annual meeting.
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145 Groups Urge Funding for DOI's 21st Century Youth Conservation Corps Proposal
National Wildlife Federation took the lead on an organizational sign-on letter to the House and Senate Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittees in support of the President’s budget recommendation for the 21st Century Youth Conservation Corps. The letter closed with the signatures of 145 conservation, youth, community service, education and hunting and angling groups. National signers ranged from the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies to the Boy Scouts of America to the Outdoor Industry Association. The letters were delivered to Congress on Wednesday, June 3rd. President Obama’s fiscal year 2010 budget proposal at the Department of Interior contains an historic $50 million in new investments to connect children and families to the great outdoors. The budget targets $30 million for educating young hunters and anglers, and doubles funding from $20 to $40 million for Youth Careers in Nature. This DOI initiative, dubbed the 21st Century Youth Conservation Corps, will bolster environmental education, recreation, and service programs throughout the Department and engage thousands of youth in the outdoors.
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Japan-U.S. Teacher Exchange Program for ESD
The Japan-U.S. Teacher Exchange Program for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) will provide up to 48 U.S. teachers and administrators with the opportunity to travel to Japan on this fully-funded program to learn about ESD efforts and strengthen ESD curricula in both countries. ESD is “a vision of education that seeks to balance human and economic well-being with cultural traditions and respect for the earth’s natural resources,” according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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North American Association for Environmental Education Announcements
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President's Environmental Youth Awards(PEYA)
Since 1971, EPA has sponsored the President's Environmental Youth Awards(PEYA). The program recognizes young people across America for projects which demonstrate their commitment to the environment. Young people in all 50 states and the U.S. territories are invited to participate in the program. Projects submitted in the past have covered a wide range of subject areas including recycling programs in schools and communities; construction of nature preserves; major tree planting programs; videos, skits, and newsletters created by students that focused on environmental issues; and environmental science projects. To be eligible to compete, a student or students, sponsored by an adult, must submit to their local EPA regional office evidence of a completed project as defined in the PEYA application, as well as a completed application. read more...
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Audubon Wyoming’s Regional Community Naturalists!
As Audubon Wyoming’s community naturalists, we would like to offer ourselves as presenters or field trip leaders as a resource to Wyoming’s classrooms and communities. We are committed to providing Wyoming schools with effective State Standard Aligned hands-on nature educational programs, special event organization, and to promote the solid conservation efforts of The National Audubon Society. Using monies Audubon Wyoming receives from donors and grants, we have the time and the resources available to give your classroom a FREE high quality nature presentation on about any topic that you are studying.
We were very successful last year giving educational programs for schools in Wyoming, and we hope to continue that work this school year. Below is a copy of our brochure that outlines what the community naturalist program is, and how it can be a resource to Wyoming’s Environmental Education movement. Please feel free to use us as a supplement to Wyoming’s EE.
Please feel free to email or call us with any questions. You can also take a look at our website if you want to know more about what we do. http://audubonwyoming.org/CNE_Northeast.html
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