California Regional Environmental
Education Community

California Department of Education, STEM Office

 
 

CREEC Newsletter for November 2014

 
 

Center for Land-Based Learning Joins the CREEC Team

We are pleased to welcome the Center for Land-Based Learning to the CREEC Network Leadership Team for the Capital Region. The Center for Land-Based Learning brings a wealth of experience in providing experiential learning for youth and professional development for educators in the Capital Region. If you aren't familiar with their work, check out their website at LandBasedLearning.org.

Land-Based Learning will take the lead on CREEC-sponsored events and produce this quarterly newsletter. If you have suggestions for future newsletter content - programs, events, research, resources - please email Karen Swan with "CREEC Newsletter" in the subject line.

The Yolo County Office of Education will continue as the fiscal agent for the CREEC Network and host workshops to support environmental education in the region. Viola DeVita will officially take over for YCOE but you'll still see Deb Bruns (now project director for YCOE's C-STEM+ program) at CREEC events, as connecting young people with the local environment remains a personal and professional passion.

See below for more news, resources and upcoming events in the Capital Region.

 

 
 

What's New in Region 3

Dig It! The Secrets of Soil Interactivities

Learn about soils from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, and then take your students to the exhibit at the CA Museum! Dig It! The Secrets of Soil Exhibit at the California Museum through March 29, 2015.

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Environmental Education and Sustainability in U.S. Public Schools: A Preliminary Report on Findings

Read about the successes and challenges experienced by public schools as they incorporate environmental education and sustainability practices, as well as a roadmap for how to strengthen this vital area in our schools.

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Nature Bowl: Coaches workshops scheduled for January and February

Nature Bowl is an annual science based educational program for 3rd - 6th graders that increases ecological knowledge and conservation literacy.

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Six Key Reasons The New Next Generation Science Standards Are Great News For Environmental Education

The NGSS are set up to go mainstream and thus offer more EE reach into classrooms than anything else to-date.

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Green Ribbon Schools Award Program in California

Highlight your great EE work! Become a Green Ribbon School.

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Local Events

11/11

Project WET workshop at the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences

12/29

Green Ribbon Schools Application Due

1/8/15

Nature Bowl Coaches Workshop, Effie Yeaw Nature Center (first of many in the region)

1/24/15

Discover the Flyway, Teacher Training Workshop, Yolo Basin Foundation

1/30/15

Caring for Our Watersheds Contest Proposals Due

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Environmental Education In Action

Caring for Our Watersheds

The Caring for Our Watersheds Program empowers students to imagine, develop and create solutions in their local watersheds. It is both an environmental proposal contest and a project funding opportunity for high school students. $17,000 is available for student and school awards in 2015. Take a look at the winning proposals from 2014 and the implemented projects since 2010 for inspiration. Then contact Beth DelReal at the Center for Land-Based Learning to submit your own proposals by January 30, 2015 for your chance to win.

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PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES

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Region 3 Contact

Karen SwanKaren@creec.org (530) 795-1544

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