GLIN==> Michigan Alliance for Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE) Conference Early Bird Registration Deadling Extended to July 15, 2010

Hello All,



While many of you out there may not be teachers or nature center staff this
year’s theme of engaging young people in stewardship projects may be
appropriate for you. Also consider  the national push to get kids outside,
engaging in all types of learning and getting healthy many of these sessions
may be appropriate for you.



As a employee of a watershed council who works with youth I see how the
presentations and workshops can provide professional development across many
professions at the fraction of attending a national conference or workshop.
Plus who wouldn’t want to stay at the U of M biological station for a
weekend, hang out with like minded folks and learn some new stuff. I  ask
that you consider attending or send someone on your staff. Please feel free
to share with folks you feel may be interested.



Registration materials are available on the MAEOE website:
http://www.michiganenvironmentaled.org/.  Earlybird registration 10.00
discount---deadline: July 15



Michele

Michele Arquette-Palermo

Education and Stewardship Director

Clinton River Watershed Council



Michigan Alliance for Environmental & Outdoor Education announces 2010
Conference ~ Oct. 8-10



Conference Theme:  Engaging Students in Science & Stewardship



Environmental and outdoor educators, classroom teachers, natural resource
professionals, university and others will share their tips and techniques
for connecting students and communities to their environment at the 22nd
annual Michigan Alliance for Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE)
conference set for Friday-Sunday, October 8-10, 2010, at the University of
Michigan Biological Station, 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge. This
year's conference theme is "Engaging Students in Science & Stewardship,"
with topics ranging from schoolyard-enhanced learning, stream monitoring,
amphibian surveys, and ethnobotany, to Adopt-a-Beach programs, and much more
will be presented.

A wide variety of educator workshops will be held Friday, October 8. The
thirteen workshops offered include new early learner (pre-K) curricula by
Project WILD and Project Learning Tree, Schoolyard Enhanced Learning,
Michigan Forests, Fungus Amongus, Limnology & Fish Ecology, Flying Wild,
Beaver Island Exploration, Farm-to-Table, Nature, Art, and Writing, Your
Great Lakes National Forest, Team-Building Games, and Great Lakes
Stewardship & Adopt-a-Beach Program.

Choose from over 50 presentations (indoors and outdoors) and field trips on
Saturday and Sunday, October 9-10.  Saturday will also feature the 2nd
annual Share-A-Thon with ready-to-go outdoor and classroom activities.
Kayaking, star-gazing, nature walks, and an opportunity to meet new friends
from all over Michigan will round out the weekend.



Get Your Students Active and Excited About Learning!

● Explore a variety of monitoring programs that your students can
participate in such as invasive species mapping, birdfeeder watch, lake and
stream water quality monitoring, biodiversity and much more!

● Gather great ideas for involving students in Great Lakes stewardship
activities such as energy audits, composting, gardening, greening your
school, and lots more!

● Discover opportunities to create school-community partnerships to address
local stewardship needs and how to integrate environmental education into
all disciplines, as well as, gain new outdoor teaching skills & techniques!



There are four featured speakers: (i) Herb Broda, Professor of Education at
Ashland University (Ohio) and author of Schoolyard Enhanced Learning: Using
the Outdoors as an Instructional Tool , will present  Saturday evening’s
(Oct. 9) keynote presentation, "Plugged In, But Tuned Out: The Need to
Reconnect with Nature."  (ii) Dave Dempsey, author and activist, will
present “On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century” on Saturday
morning (Oct. 9) that will provide an overview of the Great Lakes and a call
to stewardship by citizens and K-12 teachers and students.  (iii) Tim Grant,
co-editor of Green Teacher Magazine and several curricula, will conduct two
Saturday sessions on Teaching the Greatest Challenge of Them All- Climate
Change, and Teaching Green in the Middle Years. (iv) Wendy Halperin, a
renown Michigan children’s book author & illustrator, will present two
Saturday sessions that will focus on enhancing one’s outdoor observations
through drawing to monitor environmental changes.



Lodging and meals are available at the University of Michigan Biological
Station near Pellston or in the local area. The full 3-day registration fee
is $75 for MAEOE members and $150 for non-MAEOE members, with reduced rates
for fewer days and for university students. Three meals and one night
lodging at the University of Michigan Biological Station is $75 per day. For
driving directions and hotels/motels in the local area:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/umbs/contact/travel   For more information,
contact: Joan Chadde, Conference Chair, jchadde at mtu.edu or 906-487-3341.







Protecting, enhancing and celebrating the Clinton River, its watershed and
Lake St. Clair.



  A river is the report card for its watershed.        -  Alan Levere





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