Conference Sessions
What will you learn, share, and discover in 2010?
"The environment: it's where you live!"
Check out the following sessions at Teaching OUTSIDE the Box 2010!
(The final schedule will be available in April 2010)
Saturday, April 17
Diversity and Inclusiveness 201- I Know It's Important, Now What?
Listening to the Land: Understanding the Relationship Between Natural & Built Learning Environments
Going on a Bug Hunt!
Implementing your Educational Programming by Relying on Volunteers
Wheelchair Hikes
Who Lives In Your Backyard? Creating a Nature Journal
The Science and Art of Phenology
School Gardens: An Integrated, Interactive How-To Exploration
Re-Awakening Our Senses: An Introduction to Tracking and Awareness
Nature's Window - An Invitation into Ecospiritual Living
Create a Buzzzzz in Your Classroom!
A Sense of Place: Castle Rock Elementary School of Science and Inquiry
Investigating the Impact of Interpretive Signs in Neighborhood Natural Areas
From Biodiversity to Cultural Diversity: It’s All Inclusive
Growing Up WILD - Exploring Nature with Young Children
Certify Yourself as an Environmental Educator
Playing With Fire- A Wildland Fire Ecology Class
Technology in the Trees: Using a GPS to Explore, Learn and Share Information
Discovering Prairie Plants
Environmental Education and the new Colorado Academic Standards
Inclusive Volunteer Engagement
Colorado’s Environmental Literacy Plan: A Stepping Stone to Our State’s Future
The Mysteries of Migration
Coexisting in Coyote Country: Coyote Education Bins
Nourishing Children Through Nature - Adventures from the Wild Zone
Starting the Dialogue about Diversity and Inclusiveness
Incorporating Quality Field Experience into your Curriculum - Top Ten Tricks
Teaching Environmental Issues: Broadening Perspectives
Teaching Geology through Games
Climate Literacy in Colorado and Beyond
Grounding Service in Standards through Portfolios
Wildfires and Watersheds
My Water Comes From the Rocky Mountains
Geographical Thinking: Building a Dam
Sunday, April 18
3-hour "Super Sessions"
Early Childhood Environmental Experiences from Project Learning Tree
Ditches Saved the West
Probing into Project Learning Tree and Environmental Investigations!
Your watershed: It's Where You Live!
Impacts of Climate Change: Today and Tomorrow
Sunday, April 18
Integrating EE into Public School
Foothills Ecosystems: So Much to Explore, So Close to Home
Everyday Items for Interpretation
Roly-Polies and other Critters of the Schoolyard
From Pingree to the Platte; An examination of the Cache La Poudre River
Wetlands and Wonder: Reconnecting Children with Nearby Nature
Spirituality and EE
Yoga for Nature Nerds
Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn: Native American Cultural Ways of Gaining Wisdom From Nature
A New Tool, Earth Protect, Video/Social Network on the World Environment
Sketching Along the Way: Cultivating the Spirit of Nature in Children
Junior Master Gardening
Investigating the NAAEE Guidelines for the Preparation and Professional Development of Environmental Educators and Nonformal Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence
Curriculum for a Crowded World
Parent's Fears About Their Children Spending Time in Nature
Virtual Field Trips Using Google Earth