When: June 26 through June 30 from 9:00am - 3:00pm
Join us for a 5-day workshop using the outdoors as an educational tool to learn about native ecosystems and how you can transform your schoolyard into a learning lab all while improving the health of Ohio’s waterways.
Earth Partnership seeks to:
- Bring people together interested in linking environmental and health concerns to
academic achievement in science, math, social studies, language and the arts. - Partner with communities to broaden participation and generate enthusiasm among youth to become the next generation of environmental stewards.
- Integrate Latino perspectives and experience with Earth Partnership’s ecological
restoration education programs in diverse watersheds and ecosystems. Lesson plans translated into Spanish. - Address the needs of K-12 educators for culturally accurate and authentic resources across the curriculum.
Fee: $100 - includes instruction, materials, Earth Partnership K-12 Curriculum Guide, Project Wild curriculum guide. (Project Wild guides are provided free-of-charge by the ODNR-Division of Wildlife)
For an additional $165 you can earn 3 graduate credits from University of Wisconsin.
Funding for school projects will be available upon completion of this workshop.
Dates:
June 26-30, 2017
(classes will be held at various locations from 9:00am - 3:00pm)
Follow up one-day session Spring 2018 - Date TBD
Registration:
Contact Amy Roskilly at 216/524-6580, ext. 1005 or aroskilly@cuyahogaswcd.org
A detailed confirmation will be sent following registration.
This workshop is sponsored by:
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Esperanza
Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District
Cleveland Metroparks
Conservancy for the Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Ohio Division of Wildlife
Ohio Project Wild
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency