Summer 2009 Workshops for Educators, Parents, Adults **
*No Child Left Inside* Saturday, July 18, 9am-4pm Julie Kulik, experienced public school teacher, naturalist, and outdoor educator at Earth Arts, Ithaca will demonstrate how to integrate nature-based learning into the curriculum inside or outside the classroom. Richard Louv and others have brought awareness to the need to get students outside to learn and make connections. This experiential workshop is guaranteed to bring delight and heightened performance to teachers and students alike. ADHD, at-risk, and gifted children, all find nature-based curriculum engaging and inspiring. The cultural richness and diversity of these learning methods removes blocks, creates passion for learning, and improves overall academic performance. Sliding fee includes a textbook with curriculum and many activities, “Coyotes Guide to Connecting With Nature, for Kids of all Ages and their Mentors” Book cost is $25. Sliding fee: $100-$150. *Native Living Skills For Educators * Saturday, August 8, 9am-4pm & Sunday, August 9, 9am-2pm Master-craftsman, teacher, Darrell Birchenough, presents a two-day experiential immersion in Native American and global native living skills, crafts, and stories for the classroom with hands on authentic projects. Participants will experience native cultures through building outdoor shelters, making friction fires, preparing and cooking delicious native foods, creating reed baskets, tools, practicing native gardening techniques, with direct applications for the classroom. The life skills offered, commonly used by all cultures, inspire cooperation, stewardship, and creativity. Participants will take home baskets, tools, cultural stories, knowledge of building shelters and fire from forest materials, and a deeper connection to the place they live. Also suitable for older children accompanied by an adult. Sliding fee: $100-$150. *Bringing Gardens Into The Classroom* Saturday, August 15 & Sunday, August 16, 9 am – 4pm both days The trend to revive the school garden is growing worldwide as an integral part of classroom curriculum. Here, children begin to form a deep understanding of the ecology of which they are part and cross curriculum learning flows naturally. Steve Gabriel, of the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute offers, a comprehensive plan for developing school gardens, a plan to guide teachers through this process, offer activities and curriculum tools for educators and parents to bring garden-based lessons to the entire curriculum. Participants will learn about the ecology of the landscape and how nature can help children understand elements of science, math, music, history, etc, while reconnecting themselves to a sense of place and delight in the natural world. Steve will provide samples of unit plans, activities, core learnings and documented school benefits. Please pack a lunch and water and wear sturdy shoes. Sliding fee: $110 –$160. * * *Design Your Backyard Ecosystem * Saturday, July 11, 10 am – 3pm Steve Gabriel, will lead participants through a Permaculture design process that demonstrates how to assess the environmental characteristics of a site, formulate clear goals for sustainable use, design beautiful and productive veggie gardens, orchards, small ponds, and more. Turn dreams into reality and transform a yard into a beautiful, productive habitat for humans and nature. Please pack a lunch and water bottle and wear sturdy shoes. For educators, homeowners, and gardeners. Sliding fee: $40–$80. *At Earth Arts we connect youth and adults to the land, each other, and the power of community. We are part of a consortium of Nature-based education programs and schools in the northeast US. Our core curriculum consists of connected fields of study that empower people of all ages to become stewards, naturalists, artisans, mentors, and leaders. Through creative activities we offer nature observation, naturalist skills, earth arts, interpretive tracking, ethnobotany, survival skills, bird and animal awareness. As students experience all these areas in consort they develop a more holistic sense of place, community, and awareness of their individual interests and purpose.* To register call: 607-272-6486, email [email protected], or send a check and registration information to: Earth Arts, 689 Coddington Road, Ithaca, New York, 14850. Sliding fees enable us to offer scholarships in our programs. Thank you for helping support the scholarship fund when you can. _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
