CREEC-LA
Serving Los Angeles County

FOR TEACHERS

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The CREEC Network is dedicated to providing teachers with excellent environmental education resources. All Los Angeles County Teachers are welcome to utilize the CREEC network, website, calendar, and resource directory to explore environmental education programs, upcoming teacher trainings and workshops, grants and funding opportunities.

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Natural History Museum’s Boeing Teacher Institute

Saturday, June 7, 14, 21, 28, 2008 8:00am - 12:30pm

 

Touch Fossils!

Conduct Nature Observations!

Explore Artifacts!

Connect with the Experts!

 

Take part in all this and more at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County’s Boeing Teacher Institute!

 

Think there's no way to fit science and social studies into your busy day? Overwhelmed with how to structure a field trip to be more than a crazy day away from the classroom? This workshop is for you! 

Discover how to infuse science and social studies into the elementary curriculum while still meeting language arts and literacy standards. This series of four Saturday workshops will provide you with all the tools you need to get inquiry-based science and social studies back into the curriculum by tying authentically to language arts. Learn how to modify science and social studies instruction to meet the needs of EL students as well as students with disabilities. 

Each workshop day will be packed with hands-on activities, access to museum education collections, tours of museum exhibitions, access to museum experts and support on how to bring it all back to your classroom teaching.

Participants will receive

- A free copy of Informal Learning and Field Trips: Engaging Students in Standards-Based Experiences Across the K-5 Curriculum

- Free Parking

- Complementary breakfast on all four days

- Free curriculum packet with standards based lesson plans

 

Space is limited.  For more information contact Robin Savoian at (213)-763-3535

 

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GREEN FUNDRAISING FOR SCHOOLS AND ECO-CLUBS!

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Fundraising Green is a Southern California based fundraising company that has created the first viable Zero-administration, Eco-friendly fundraiser for schools, clubs, churches, temples, foundations and non-profits. To this end, they have created the first ever Green Coupon Book for the Greater Los Angeles area to sell for their fundraiser. It's called myGreenSpark Redemption Book. Redeem coupons from the book and redeem your impact on the environment. Raise money for your cause while raising the awareness of consumers regarding Conscious or Green Consumerism.
 

The myGreenSpark Redemption Book is sold over the internet for $30 and is shipped directly to supporters in an eco-friendly envelope. Organizations like ecoScholarship.com who sell the book for a fundraiser receive $15 per book sold. On top of this, Fundraising Green donates another 10% of their revenue to environmental non-profits like the ecoScholarship Fund to not only help the organization pursue its goal to support Green students, but to prove to the business community that a for-profit company can run on a sustainable business model that includes donating a significant portion of their revenue to a good cause.

 

Purchase the book in support of the ecoScholarship Fund at www.mygreenspark.com/ECO

 

About the book: Printed on recycled paper using soy inks, it contains over 270 Green, Healthy and Ethical coupons from 150 great companies, good for all of 2008. Offers cover local services, shops and restaurants that reside in the Greener parts of the Greater Los Angeles area. Other offers feature 150 Green coupons from over 70 online retailers, so anyone, anywhere can enjoy using the product. 

Yes, the internet is a great resource to “Green” your life! From Organic to Fair Trade products for people and pets, to Sustainable Design, Outdoor Activities and Eco-Tourism, use the book and become a Green Consumer today! Help in the effort to create Healthy Kids, Healthy Homes and a Healthy Planet.

 

Learn more: www.FundraisingGreen.com www.mygreenspark.com www.ecoscholarship.com 

 

HUNTINGTON LIBRARY: GROUNDING IN BOTANY

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Imagine your wish list for a high school science lesson: Inexpensive materials. Standards-based. Engaging. Hands-on. With "Grounding in Botany: Integrating Plants into the High School Science Classroom," a professional development course offered at the Huntington Botanical Gardens, we show you how using plants in the classroom can make these wishes come true.

Applications for "Grounding in Botany" are now available. Instruction includes practice of hands-on classroom experiments, lectures, networking, creation of lesson plans, resource reviews, and more. In addition, the course provides participants with a $1,500 stipend and a $500 classroom grant for supplies.

Grounding in Botany utilizes real organisms: participants will work with both Wisconsin Fast Plants and its well-studied relative Arabidopsis. The course uses the stages of the life cycle as a foundation for explorations of plant reproduction, the cell, genetics, respiration, photosynthesis, and many other topics. The course frames exploration in current events and current scientific research and will include guest lectures from researchers at Caltech and UC Irvine.

"Grounding in Botany" takes place 4 days a week (Tuesday-Friday) for 4 weeks (July 15-August 8, 2008). The course is open to high school biology/life science teachers. If you would like more information or would like to apply, please visit http://www.huntington.org/Education/gib.html or feel free to contact Mike Kerkman at mkerkman@huntington.org or 626-405-3586.

 

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CURRICULA & RESOURCES

New Marine Education Guide

Treasures in the Sea: Our Bahamian Marine Resources provides educators with scientific information and engaging, hands-on activities. Visit the Web site to download the book or sections of the book, link to resources related to the activities, find out about training workshops in the Bahamas, and share teaching ideas and experiences in marine conservation education. Developed by the American Museum of Natural History and Bahamian partners.

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A Guide to Desert & Dryland Restoration

By David A. Bainbridge. Published by Island Press. With almost a billion people around the world affected by dryland degradation and
desertification, A Guide to Desert & Dryland Restoration offers practical, field-tested solutions to this critical problem. This book focuses on restoring arid regions, exploring the causes of desertification and land abuse, the history of dryland decline, and describes the processes and procedures needed to evaluate, plan, implement, and monitor desert restoration projects. Fully illustrated with excellent photos and illustrations and references for further information.

This book is designed to be used as a semester-long class with material suited for high school or college. Alternative irrigation systems, seed collection, and restoration planning could be used at any level for class activities. Selected chapter powerpoints are available free online.

 

Updated 06/09/08



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