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NATURE IN BALANCE
This series of outdoor &
environmental education courses provide an in depth experience in biodiversity
education for teaching professionals. "Project" workshops, well known and
respected nationwide, provide excellent supporting curricula for our exciting
student programs which feature native plant communities of northeastern
Illinois.
The following Nature in Balance courses take place over 2 days
and optional graduate credit is available through Aurora University. Contact Marie Bernardy at 847-835-8280 to sign
up.
Winter Prairie Outdoor Education: Recommended for
teachers of grades 4-6
Fee: $85.00
Day
1
Project
WET
Saturday,
Jan. 13,
2001
Location: Chicago Botanic Garden
9:00am - 3:30pm
Project WET will help you
facilitate and promote awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of
water resources through the use classroom-ready teaching aids. Teachers will
find Project WET activities appropriate and effective in helping to meet goals
and objectives. Take home Project WET curriculum and
materials.
Day 2
Saturday, Jan. 20,
2001
Location: Chicago Botanic Garden
8:30am - 4:30pm
Learn to take advantage
of all seasons to teach your students about nature outside! Teachers will
be prepared to bring their students to the Garden or another prairie for an
in-depth field trip experience. Dress for the weather and expect to have fun! .
Optional graduate credit is available through Aurora
University.
Winter Woodland Outdoor Education:
Recommended for teachers of grades 3-5.
Fee:
$85.00
Day
1
Sunday,
Jan. 21, 2001
Location: Chicago Botanic Garden
8:30am - 4:30pm
What happens to the
forest in the winter? Field studies and outdoor explorations, as well as
classroom activities, will aid discovery in the winter woodland
community. Teachers will be prepared to bring their class to the
Garden or another woodland area for an in-depth field trip experience.
Dress for the weather and expect to have fun!
Day
2
Project Learning Tree
Saturday, Feb. 10, 2001Location: Chicago
Botanic Garden
9:00am - 3:30pm
Project Learning Tree is an
interdisciplinary environmental education program for educators working with
students in Pre-K through grade 12. Take-home curriculum book and
activities will help students gain awareness and knowledge of the natural and
built environment, their place within it, as well as their responsibility for
it.
Contact Marie Bernardy at 847-835-8280 to
sign up for Nature in Balance workshops.
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