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2012 Toyota Earth Day Scholarship Program
This program encourages and rewards grade 12 high school students who have distinguished themselves through environmental community service, extracurricular and volunteer activities, and academic excellence. There are 20 awards worth $5000 each.
Deadline is January 31, 2012.
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Share Your Schools' Great Work and Receive $250
The Mayor's Environment Expo in Calgary is looking for showcase  schools. As a showcase school you receive a $250 grant, resources to help your project along and the opportunity to share your project at the annual Expo in June with hundreds of other students. See full details.
Deadline for applications is December 16. |
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Here Comes the Sun..... 
Ok, sorry, not yet! But it is time to start thinking about the Greenlearning.ca solar oven challenge.
Registration is now open so you can start planning for when the sun does return at full force!
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Deep Learning and Reflection - 2011 Leadership Clinic
9 teams attended the 4th annual Cenovus Energy Environmental Education Leadership Clinic. Here is what some of the participants said about their experience:
"We now have an action orientation and a solid direction to move in; prior to the clinic we were basically in a holding pattern."
"The impact from this Clinic will be substantial as we have a cohesive direction and the support of team members who are now all speaking the "same language".
All the resources shared at the 2011 clinic are posted as well as the goals tackled by each group.
If you are interested in attending this amazing event, applications will be out early in the New Year and posted here.
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| Family and Nature - Toolkit from the Child Nature Network
"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder...he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitment and mystery of the world we live in."
-Rachel Carson
This toolkit gives parents ideas on how to engage with their children outside, to be that person to share in the joy of nature with kids. There are ideas for children of all ages.
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Engaging Students in Learning About the Environment
Inquiry based learning is now a familiar term used by teachers across the province. How are you using inquiry to teach about the environment? Here are some sites that profile what teachers are doing and t he thought behind their work with students.
- Natural Curiosity is a website out of Ontario presenting an approach they call Environmental Inquiry. Along with the theory, stories from teachers in the classroom are used to illustrate the process.
- Connect! is the blog from the Calgary Science School. Teachers share their programs and progress with students. They have just posted an Introduction to Inquiry document on their blog.
What are you doing in your classroom and how are you sharing it with others? We would love to hear about it!
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Green Teacher Webinars 
Green Teacher Magazine has more webinar sessions scheduled:
- Using Nature Journals to Teach Students How to Think, Communicate and Act like Scientists - January 25
- Strategies for Successfully Engaging Culturally Diverse Audiences January 30
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Emerald Awards Nominations Now Open
Nominate an environmental rock star in your community! There are 9 different categories - your hero is bound to fit into one!
The deadline for nominations is February 24.
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| Twitter
We are big fans of birds here at ACEE so we have taken flig ht in the twitter universe. There are some great resources and thoughts flying around out there and we want to share them with you.
If you are already playing around in this universe, follow us.
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Connecting Environmental Educators in Alberta
One of the roles identified for ACEE is to develop, encourage and support  networks that help advance environmental education in Alberta.
To that end we are interested in your thoughts about environmental education networks in Alberta. Here are some things to consider:
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Should a network be an on-line or face to face community?
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Should they be organized by topic? By region?
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What would you like to get out of these networks?
If you have any thoughts you would like to share, contact Christina.
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Memorable Experiences in Nature
Lara Fenton, a PHd candidate at the University of Alberta, wants to know about a special or meaningful nature experience you have had in the last 6 months. Her online survey will take you 15 minutes.
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