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Educators will participate in selected PLT and WILD activities emphasizing their correlation to pollinators and pollinator habitat. Each participant will receive two curriculum guides and a Backpack Explorer – On The Nature Trail book. Door prizes.

$10.00 Curriculum fee which can be paid at the workshop.

To register contact Sheila at sheila.connerly@agfc.ar.gov or 479.518.2621.

Getting kids outside is essential these days and nature journaling is a great way to get and keep kids engaged. Nature journaling supports lessons in both literacy and science. Observation, writing, sketching, data collection, sequencing, and reflection are a few of the many useful skills students may use while journaling. This workshop will demonstrate the use of Project Learning Tree activities to improve and enhance nature journaling skills. This will be an interactive workshop conducted both indoors and outdoors and include activities, hands-on crafts, and lesson plans.

Join us for this fun and educational day and learn how to implement nature journaling activities into your own classroom, camps, and educational programs.

Please bring a sack lunch or Mather Lodge Restaurant will be open as well.

Participants must stay for the full training in order to receive the curriculum guide and the six hours of ADE-approved PD.  No partial credit will be given. Space is limited.

Cost: $15
To register: https://tinyurl.com/225sv2xb

This workshop will be divided into two sessions. The morning session will highlight Focus on Forest. The afternoon session will highlight Southeastern Forests and Climate Change

Part 1: This high school curriculum is designed to foster student understanding of — and appreciation for — the forested lands of North America. The lessons provide students with opportunities for hands-on forest study and address concepts in biology, civics, ecology, economics, forest management, and other content areas. Click here for more information about Project Learning Tree and this curriculum: https://www.plt.org/curriculum/focus-on-forests/

Part 2: Project Learning Tree and the University of Florida developed this award winning material to help educators in the Southeast teach about climate change impacts on forest ecosystems, the role of forests in sequestering carbon, and strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to changing climatic conditions. While this resource was created with southeastern forests in mind, the lessons that comprise this module can be used with students across the United States. Teachers will receive FREE Project Learning Tree curriculum with activities discussed in the workshop.

Cost: $40
To register: https://www.escweb.net/ar_esc/catalog/session.aspx?session_id=441865

Project Learning Tree and Project WILD are education programs rooted in nature that help educators bring the outdoors to their students. Both programs are state and national recognized and approved by the Arkansas Department of Education. Participants will receive 3 curriculum guides.

$10.00 Curriculum fee which can be paid at the workshop.

To register contact Sheila at sheila.connerly@agfc.ar.gov or 479.518.2621.

Project Learning Tree and Project WILD are environmental education programs for anyone who teaches K-12. They help develop students’ knowledge of the environment and encourage them to care for natural resources.

Participants will receive “Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide,” which includes 50 activities correlated to NGSS, ELA and common core mathematics, and the C3 social studies framework. Participants will also receive two Project WILD curriculum guides with over 150 lessons and a National Wild Turkey Federation education box filled with materials to teach lessons on wild turkey.

This workshop qualifies for 6 hours of ADE-approved professional development.

$10.00 materials fee which can be paid at the workshop (payable the day of the event via cash, check or debit card).

To register contact Sheila at sheila.connerly@agfc.ar.gov or 479.518.2621.

Take a Walk on the WILD Side! Project WILD is an education program rooted in nature that helps educators bring the outdoors to their students. Workshop is offered at no charge. Curriculum matches state and national teaching standards. Workshop participants learn about the natural world through hands-on experience they can pass on to their students. Teachers of all subjects are encouraged to participate. Each participants will receive two curriculum guides with over 150 lessons.

The workshop is free, but registration is required. To register contact Sheila at sheila.connerly@agfc.ar.gov or 479.518.2621.

Project Learning Tree Early Childhood and Growing Up WILD are environmental education programs for educators of 3-7 year old students.

This workshop qualifies for 6 hours of ADE-approved professional development.

$10.00 materials fee which can be paid at the workshop (payable the day of the event via cash, check or debit card).

To register contact Sheila at sheila.connerly@agfc.ar.gov or 479.518.2621.

AEEA’s EE Expo will be virtual this summer, and we are very excited about the speakers and topics to be covered.  This year’s theme is ‘Connecting With Your Environment,’ where we will focus on citizen science (also called community science) projects in Arkansas.  

Mary Ford, Director of Professional Learning at the National Geographic Society, is our keynote speaker. You can read her amazing bio here.

Registration and a schedule will soon be released.  Mark your calendars now for July 20 – 21, 2021 from 8:00 am to noon each day.