WyAEE News:
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
SEEDS OF SUCCESS
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!
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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SEEDS OF SUCCESS
As a family farmer-owned company that is proud to grow and nurture grapes, Welch's is here to help teach the value of sustainable agriculture and healthy eating.
This year, in partnership with Scholastic, Welch's is supporting school garden programs through Welch's Harvest Grants. Whether you're a child or an adult, planting and tending a garden helps build an understanding of our environment and cultivates a respect for nature.
Teacher scan apply for a Welch's Harvest Grant and win a school garden by visiting scholastic.com/harvest.
Two schools in every state will be awarded a valuable garden package to help provide entire school communities with a dynamic setting for hands-on discovery, experimentation, and learning.
The benefits of gardening are far-reaching and have relevant applications across all areas of learning. You can also visit scholastic.com/harvest to learn more and to access helpful resources and tools to help nurture your child's love of gardening.
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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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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
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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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