California Regional Environment
Education Community
California Department of Education, STEM Office
Spring 2014 - Region 1 - North Coast
A Message From Our Statewide Coordinator
Teachers dedicate the school year to their students, but they also need to feed their own love of learning. If you are a teacher, now is the time to start thinking about professional development opportunities that will recharge your batteries and get you outside this summer! Take advantage of statewide opportunities such as the Forestry Institute for Teachers (Project FIT) at four different locations, the Floodplains Ecology Institutes, or the Cal Alive! Programs offered by the California Institute for Biodiversity, just to name a few. Find registration information and much more at www.creec.org. Keep reading to learn about many more regional opportunities in this newsletter!
This February, Humboldt County environmental educators collaborated to present Take A Child Outside Day at the Arcata Marsh. This fun and well-attended event was a festival of nature exploration for kids and their caregivers.
TeenNat is a teen internship that teaches youth about natural science careers and exposes them to real science-in-action as they help gather data critical to preserving our area’s rich biodiversity. During the internship, 28 youth learned. . .
This past February, high school students across Sonoma County convened at Montgomery High School for a Green Teen Gathering. Organized with Support from the Climate Protection Campaign’s (CPC) ECO2school program the gathering. . .
What started out as an opportunity to bring together students from two different schools to explore their local watershed blossomed into an interdisciplinary inquiry-based local environmental education collaboration. Not only did students practice science in their community, they also studied the history of how the local Miwok and Pomo connected with the watershed. . .
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Anne Stephens, Statewide CREEC Coordinator, astephens@cde.ca.gov
STEM Office, California Dept. of Education, 1430 N Street, Suite 4309, Sacramento, CA 95814
