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 Green Calgary Brings Environmental Awareness to a Home Near You 
Colleen, our new  summer student shares her first blog


  Children's Books: A Fine Balance Between Humans and Nature
This blog from Mountain Equipment Co-Op looks at the subject matter in children's books
 
 

Nature Play Day - June 15

Child and Nature Alliance of Canada is celebrating outdoor play with Nature Play Day. It is all about finding a simple way to connect with nearby nature in your backyard, local park, schoolyard, rooftop garden . . . wherever really!  

  • Share your plans with the rest of Canada and register your play day on the national map
  • Resources to help give you some ideas
  • Promote Nature Play Day with these fun videos 
 

Professional Development for Agency Professionals   

To help you wade through some of the many professional development opportunities available, ACEE has put together a listing of programs we have come across over the years.

The list includes:
  • Grants for Professional Development
  • Non-Profit Organization Development
  • Leadership
  • Environmental Education Practice and Theory
  • Conferences
  • Topic Specific Opportunities
  • Professional Reading

Visit www.abcee.org/pd/agencies/ for more details.

 

Did we miss anything? Contact us and direct us to your favorite professional development program.   

 

Active Healthy Kids Report       

We all know the importance of being active, but according to the annual report card from Active Healthy Kids Canada, only 7% of children and youth in Canada are meeting Canada's guideline of 60 minutes of physical activity a day!

Nature and Outdoor play is included in the report, but no grade was given as there was not enough research available for a grade.

Read a summary and the full report:  www.activehealthykids.ca/
 

What strategies would you suggest for teacher professional learning?  

ACEE wants to talk to folk who might suggest strategies for future teacher professional learning to increase and enhance environmental education in Alberta classrooms.

Do you have any experiences or ideas you would like to share? Read more about this ACEE initiative and offer your comments.  
 

Yellow Fish Road Celebrates 21 Years!

The Yellow Fish Road program from Trout Unlimited Canada has been around since 1991 and has engaged 80,000 volunteers in over 250 communities! These volunteers have painted "Yellow Fish" symbols next to 100,000 storm drains and distributed 500,000 fish-shaped door hangers across Canada.

Has your program celebrated any milestones? Contact Christina so we can share them with the rest of the environmental education community in Alberta! 
 

Summer Fun  

There are some great summer learning and adventure ideas to be found in the Encana Environmental Education Resource Centre. Here is a sample:
 

 Jobs in Alberta       
Quick Links
Encyclopedia of Life
The Encyclopedia of Life brings together information about all life on earth - text, images, video, sounds, maps, classifications and more - all freely available on-line. You can add your own comments and start your own collection of favorite media to support your lessons and share with your students: eol.org/. 
What is Missing?
This unique website focuses on the root cause of species lose - habitat degradation. By navigating a map made up of dots, you learn about species at risk but also about the organizations working to protect and enhance habitat: whatismissing.net/#/home
For more information visit:  www.abcee.org
Questions or comments? Please contact christina@abcee.org.