Greetings!
Welcome to another school year! Take advantage of the great opportunities and funding for students, schools and your own professional growth! New programs, "traveling" resources and free tuition through our SRA (formerly Sally Ride) Fall Series are all available to you...but, hurry! Some of these offers are limited!
We look forward to enhancing your students' learning & providing quality professional experiences throughout the coming year.
Please forward this information to others who might be interested.
Thanks,
The Parks & Land Use
Educational Team
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 Sally Ride Academy - Scholarship
Opportunity! Environmental Ed Series
Waukesha County is partnering with SRA (formerly Sally Ride Academy) to offer a series of three classes this fall, including:
Water: (October 16-17) Natural Resources: (November 20-21) Soil & Erosion: (December 11-12) Fridays 4-8 pm & Saturdays 8am-4pm
The first 15 Waukesha County participants will receive discounted registration & tuition. Pay only $50 registration & $50 per credit! One class= 1 credit, two classes= 2 credits, or three classes= 3 credits.
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Tackling Sports Recycling !
County high schools will host at least 97 varsity football games, 10 cross-country meets, and hundreds of soccer games and tennis matches. Junior varsity and freshman games will also bring thousands of additional fans through the facilities, with many purchasing recyclable bottles from concession stands.
Statistics say Americans consume 3.25 million plastic bottles every hour, and only 24% are recycled. That is, approximately 8 out of every 10 bottles are landfilled. While many recycle their bottles at home, recycling away from home at schools, parks, malls, and other public locations is often overlooked or not available.
In Waukesha County, we are working hard to make recycling available at every venue you may attend. If you see a need for recycling at a sporting or special event, call us at 262-896-8300 or request free event bins online.
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 Planets and Plants
A Match Made in Heaven
Larger groups can split up to do what we call a "Flip-Flop" program, where ½ of the group would attend a Nature Center program while the other half attends a Planetarium show, and then flip-flop the group for the second session.
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More Field Trip Opportunities & Limited Bus Funding
For when your class wants to be on the go!
Recycling
Visit the Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) for a fun one-hour tour of what happens to your recyclables. Visit our website to learn more or call 896-8300 to schedule your trip. Limited bus funding available for MRF field trips only! Call for information.
Water
Choose a river or stream close to your school and we will meet you there with all the equipment to run your students through stations to test for dissolved oxygen, clarity, temperature, and biotic index. Call 896-8305 to schedule a trip.
Parks
Eble Park and Naga-Waukee Park Ice Arenas offer a great field trip opportunity, all year around.
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 Easy Being Green
New Presentations on Recycling and Water
Waukesha County is pleased to
offer this exciting new set of free
programs for your school.
These programs build upon one
another to properly scaffold both
topical knowledge and analysis skills. They also are correlated to the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards.
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Additional Programs & Presentations
Each area of our department has unique presentations that can be delivered to your group. Presentations usually last 45 minutes to an hour. We can work with you to make sure the presentations coincide with your curriculum objectives.
Animal Welfare
Animal bite prevention, humane animal education, humane animal careers
Parks
Waukesha County Parks' interactive calendar with a wide variety of monthly events.
Recycling
Waste reduction, recycling, composting, natural resources, climate change, recycling & the county government, economics of recycling
Water
Soils, groundwater, water cycle, storm drain stenciling, water quality testing, and a wide variety of other presentations.
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Recycle Me
~The Tree
A multi-disciplinary online curriculum
Grades: 3 through 5
This lesson, with a modifiable timeline, allows students to analyze a current behavior or habit that is not environmentally-friendly (such as making a lot of trash at lunch, using a lot of extra water when taking a shower, or reducing energy use as a way to minimize one's carbon footprint). Once students identify and analyze a problem, they are guided by the scientific method to create a solution. Students then observe the change and are challenged to reflect in a daily journal while also measuring their solution through qualitative data. Grading rubrics and suggested project ideas are also included in the Action Packed! resource binder. These materials are available in all of the Recycling Traveling Trunks or may be downloaded from the recycling teacher resource website.
Teachers, if you utilize this lesson in your classrooms, we would love to hear about it so we can share your ideas and successes with others! |
Recycling Traveling Trunks
Lesson Plans & Teaching Materials on the Go
If you cover recycling in your classroom or would like to supplement lessons about natural resources with a recycling message, check out one of our recycling traveling trunks. Each trunk comes filled with over 10 unique lesson plans tied to the Wisconsin Teaching Standards and the materials for their completion. There are also fun goodies for your students to keep, such as pencils made out of recycled dollar bills.
The trunks are available for teachers in Waukesha County and are free for a two-week loan period. Trunks are available for grades Pre-K through AP Environmental Science. Please visit our recycling teacher's website for more information, including the trunk's table of contents.
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Additional Materials & Resources
Our department has a wide variety of materials and resources available on loan for teachers. These include audio visual aids, traveling trunks, and other items for teachers to use with their students. Visit the website for more information.
Recycling
Traveling Trunks (Recycling, Compost, Social Studies, Family & Consumer Education), Recycle Raccoon costume, various audio-visual equipment
Water Resources
Traveling Trunks (Watersheds & Pollution, Wetlands, Water History, Soils), Groundwater Model, supplies for stormdrain stenciling, various water testing equipment
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Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education's Annual Conference
WAEE's annual fall conference will be in Eau Claire this year. The theme is Keeping the EE in Green. There are 4 major tracks that include sustainable living, greening the body and the mind, green citizenship and community initiatives, and green activities for the classroom. Oct. 21 - 24
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| Featured Website |
This wonderful site has a wide variety of EE resources. Click on the image to visit this website.
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