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Conference Proceedings 2009
 
Paved Paradise? Practical Trips for Exploring Your Not So Natural School Yard Think its impossible to take 35 students outside to a paved schoolyard and explore nature? Learn how to find nature in everyday setting and integrate your school's outdoor settings into your planning.

Julie Gurnee
Audubon Naturalist Society
703-669-0000 x 1
www.audubonnaturalist.org
  1. Bird Song Activity
  2. Hula Hoop Investigation
  3. Under $20 Bag of Nature Supplies

Green Mapping Your Community

   Janet Felsten
Baltimore Green Map
 
  1. www.greenmap.org the home of the international Green Map System explains the history of the icon‐based mapping system and chronicles activity worldwide in print, web‐based and other forms.
  2. www.baltogreenmap.org home of the local Green Mapmaking initiative, offers workshops, guidance and collaboration, online and print resources
  3. www.opengreenmap.org online mapping tool allows you to nominate places to enter on regional and world maps, global view of progress toward sustainability
  4. www.GreenAppleMap.org/page/modules (currently) free downloadable Energy and Environment Exploration Modules (NYC focus but lots of adaptable elements)
Goods from the Woods The Washington County 4-H Youth Development Program has adapted a program called Goods From the Woods to enrich students learning as they review the parts of a tree, discover products that derive from trees, which parts of the tree produce the products, and develop an appreciation for how trees affect our lives daily.

Beth Bubacz Nichols
4-H Youth Development
301-791-1404
bnichols@umd.edu
  1. Goods from the Woods
What Can YOU Do About Climate Change: The HSBC Climate Partnership Citizen Science The HSBC Cliimate Partnership engages business and community members to understand the effects of climate change through hands-on field research and facilitated learning. Our immersion learning model involves citizens in critical ecological research, increasing knowledge required to reduce environmental impacts and facilitate action-based development and implementation of sustainable solutions.

Rebecca Wadler Lase
Earthwatch Institute
443-482-2397
  1. HSBC Climate Partnership

Show Me the Money!  Grant Writing 101 & Funders Panel” 

You have the idea, inspiration and enthusiasm, and now you need the $ to make it happen!  What’s available?  How do you apply for a grant? What are funders looking for? 


Chesapeake Bay Trust
410.974.2941

  1. Funders panel  PDF of workshop PPT
  2. Funding handout
Black Bear/White Tailed Deer Education trunks and Project WILD/Aquatic Wild Learn more about Maryland's Black Bears and Whitetailed Deer with these unique hands-on interdisciplinary teaching tools (K-12) while building on fundamental disciplines like math, art, social studies, science, language arts, and physical education. Project WILD is integrated into these education trunks and can be easily incorporated into your existing lesson plans.

Patricia Allen
MD-DNR WHS
410-260-8537
  1. Black Bear Power Point with Notes   
  2. All information about the education trunks and Project WILD can be found at www.dnr.maryland.gov
BirdSleuth: Students Become Citizen Scientists
BirdSleuth is a curriculum guide and resource kit used for studing birds. It includes how-to-use online citizen science tools such as Celebrate Urban Birds, NestWatch, Project FeederWatch, eBird, and Project PigeonWatch where students submit their observations online. Scientists use their data for conservation. Operated by Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Rose MacGregor
Ward Museum
rrmacgregor@salisbury.edu
(410) 742-4988 ext. 110
  1. BirdSleuth Power Point Presentation Notes
  2. BirdSleuth Order form for curriculum packet
  3. BirdSleuth link: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/birdsleuth
  4. Citizen Science link: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/birdsleuth/about/citizen-science-projects/citizen-science-projects
  5. Eagle Cam link: http://www.friendsofblackwater.org/camcentral.html
Connecting Kids and the Chesapeake Through Once Upon A Time Learn about how to combine science and lanuage arts to teach children about regional animals, like diamondback terrapins, ospreys and Great Horned Owls. During the interactive seesion, discuss journalistic and imaginative outlets for young students from websites through illustrated stories

Jennifer Keats Curtis
Children's Author
Maryland Life Magazine
410.626.7657
jcurtis@cablespeed.com
  1. Once Upon A Time PowerPoint and Notes
Get the “Inside Stories” and other Environmental Health resources

Entertain and enlighten your students by bringing environmental health into your classroom! Integrating these FREE online resources into the classroom brings relevance to the curriculum and engages students in critical thinking. Discover and experience innovative materials that help students explore the significant relationship between the environment and human health.

Elissa Hozore             
Maryland Public Television
  1. Document containing links to websites visited during presentation
On the Air: Exploring Air Pollution Sources and Solutions Air pollution has serious implications on our health and well being as well as on the environment. Yet little time is spent teaching and addressing the sources and solutions to air pollution. On the Air is a classroom ready intereactive curriculum and kit which addresses these issues using a multidisciplinary approach. Rebecca Davis
Edu. Program Manager
Clean Air Partners
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
  1. Air Quality Presentation PowerPoint
Partnership for Children in Nature: Reconnecting Children with Nature Through Formal and Non-Formal Settings The Partnership for Children in Nature was created by Governor O'Malley in April 2008. The goal of this Partnership is to create a state wide plan that provides students with outdoor opportunities and to develop an environmental literacy plan. Join this discussion panel as we explore ways to integrate this plan into the work you do, provide input and feedback to panel members, and learn about what others are doing throughout the state to get children re-connected with nature.

Elena Takaki
Maryland DNR
  1. Children in Nature PowerPoint and Notes
The MAEOE Certified Environmental Educator Program The Maryland Association for Environmental & Outdoor Education is about to launch and brand new Environmental Educator program. The program is alighned with the North American Association for Environmental Education's Guidelines for Excellence, and is suitable for both nonformal and formal educators. Come learn how you can become one of Maryland's first certified environmental educators.

Sarah Haines
Towson University
MAEOE Board
  1. Professional EE Certification Powerpoint
  2. EE Certification Website
From Nature to the Imagination

Before students become environmentally conscious citizens, they must be allowed to have fun in, and not be afraid of, the outdoors.  Come try activities designed to introduce students to the outdoors from a variety of angles (from science to art) that can be done in a schoolyard, in a park, or even a parking lot. 

Tania Gale
Battle Creek Nature Center
Flag Ponds Park
  1. Presentation Handout - lists background, resource lists, and instructions for all the activities we covered in our workshop and lots more.  
     
 
 
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