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Kentucky Green & Healthy Schools
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Courses:
Offered during
odd-year Spring semester:
EDU 546, Teaching Environmental
Education
Syllabus
Teacher
Final Projects,
2003
Offered during odd-year Summer session:
EDG 644, BIO 644 Aquatic Ecology for Teachers
Offered during even-year
Fall semester (beginning with Fall 2006):
EDG 645, Fundamentals of Environmental Education (an
online course)
Offered during even-year Summer session (beginning with
Summer 2006):
ENV 578, Environmental Issues for Educators
Environmental Education Graduate Endorsement
The Environmental Education Graduate
Endorsement is now being offered by the NKU College of
Education. This 12-creidt hour program is for P-12
teachers and is relevant to all subject areas.
Curriculum Contract
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Courses (see below):
EDU 546. Teaching Environmental Education
EDG 644/BIO 644, Aquatic Ecology for Teachers
EDG 645, Fundamentals of Environmental Education
ENV 578, Environmental Issues for Educators
Programs and Workshops
Save the Date!
March 18-19, 2008
High Performance Sustainable Schools Workshop
Site Visit to High Performance Energy Star School
When: March 18-29, 2008
Where: Louisville
Marriott East, Louisville, KY
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How to design,
finance and operate high performance schools is the
theme of the seventh annual High Performance
Sustainable Schools Workshop.
School superintendents, board members, facilities
managers, architects and engineers are invited to
attend. The event is dedicated to informing
school districts about the benefits and methods of
designing a sustainable school. A separate
track on the second day will address energy
management in exisiting schools.
"When it comes to buildings, many administrators
throw up their hands, call an architect, use an
off-the-shelf plan, choose the low bid, and go back
to looking at test scores," says keynote speaker Ron
Bratlie, who has thirty-five years of experience as
a public school superintendent and central office
administrator. "But a movement in school
facilities is prompting administrators to take time
to examine how a building's design might not only
contribute to test scores but also address budget
and indoor air quality issues. It's called
sustainable or 'green' design."
Tuesday, March 18, 2008,
Bratlie will describe the characteristics and
benefits of a high performance sustainable school
and tell how his Minnesota school district built
their sustainable schools at no additional
construction cost while improving the learning
environment.
In in the afternooon, there will be a discussion on
the concept of Net-Zero Energy Schools.
Net-Zero schools would reduce energy consumption to
a minimum and then generate power equal to what they
consumed so that, on balance, their energy
consumption would equal zero - all of this while
still providing students and staff with a healthy,
comfortable learning environment.
Wednesday, March 19,2008,
two tracks of information will be provided.
Track 1 will present information on high performance
technologies and case studies of their applications
in Kentucky school districts. Track 2 will
address a topic facing most school districts today
-- how to manage the rising cost of energy.
For more information, visit:
http://www.energy.ky.gov.
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Continuing Education
This workshop qualifies for EILA (Effective Instructional
Leadership Act) credit from the Kentucky Department of
Education; AIA/CSE Learning Units from the American
Institute of Architects and in-service credit for school
board members by the Kentucky School Boards ASsociation.
The event is sponsored by the Governor's Office of Energy
Policy (GOEP) and the Kentucky NEED (National Energy
Education Development) Project, with support from the U.S.
Department of Energy and in cooperation with AIA Kentucky.
Registrations are available on-line by going to GOEP's
website,
http://www.energy.ky.gov and following the "Events"
links.
Contact: Pam Proctor
Phone: 859-547-8008
Email:
pproctor@need.org
The Kentucky NEED Project
PO Box 176055
Covington, Kentucky 41017
Website: http://www.need.org
For more information, visit:
http://www.energy.ky.gov.
Stewardship for Sustainability: Leadership for the Future
http://www.eejust.org
E. E. Just is an integrated summer environmental studies
program for students and teachers, that takes place
at Kimball Union Academy, New Hampshire.
Reading the River
June 18-23, 2006
Teachers are engaged in a six-day journey from the
headwaters to the mouth of the Licking River (mostly by van,
with some canoeing) and a study of the Big Sandy Watershed.
Content area specialists representing several state and
local agencies are scheduled throughout the course to share
their expertise on water quality in relation to land use,
history, and culture. Teachers will learn biological,
physical, and chemical water monitoring techniques. The program integrates the sciences of biology, chemistry,
geology, and physical science, as well as areas of social
studies, practical living, and mathematics.
This is a 6-day, overnight field experience and requires
prior acceptance into the program. For more
information, see
Reading the River 2006. Program requirements
include full participation in the program and the
development of a unit of study. This is a grant-funded
program.
Rainforest Workshops, Service Training in the Amazon
Here are two exciting
ways for teachers and environmental educators to travel to
the Amazon Rainforest.
Project Learning Tree (PLT)
(PDF 74 KB)
(DOC 68 KB)
National Website:
http://www.foodlandpeople.org
KY Website:
http://www.kyagr.com/mkt_promo/education/kaec/programs/FLP/index.htm
Food, Land and People
(FLP)
(PDF 91 KB)
(DOC 97 KB)
Website:
http://www.plt.org
These workshops were sponsored by the Northern Kentucky
University Center for Environmental Education with funding
support from the Center for Integrative Natural Sciences & Mathematics (CINSAM).
http://www.cinsam.org.
The goal of the lessons in Project Learning Tree (PLT)
are to develop students' awareness, appreciation,
skills, and commitment to address environmental issues; to
provide a framework for students to apply scientific
processes and higher order thinking skills to resolve
environmental problems; to help students acquire an
appreciation and tolerance of diverse viewpoints on
environmental issues and develop attitudes and actions based
on analysis and evaluation of the available information; to
encourage creativity, originality, and flexibility to
resolve environmental problems and issues; and to inspire
and empower students to become responsible, productive, and
participatory members of society.
The goal of Food, Land and People (FLP)is to help
people of all ages better understand the interrelationships
among agriculture, the environment, and people of the world.
FLP's science - and social sciences - based curriculum,
serves Pre-K to 12th grade students throughout the United
States. The program guide contains very detailed
lesson plans that have been aligned with state and national
standards in a number of subject aras.
Project Learning
Tree: Elementary and Middle School
teachers dance to the Water Cycle Boogie, as an
extension of the PLT Lesson "Water Wonders" |
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Project Learning
Tree: Teachers use a dichotomous key to identify
trees as part of a PLT lesson. |
PLT Elementary
Workshop facilitators,
from left to right, Reeda Hart and Dr. Anjana
Arora. |
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PLT Middle and
Secondary Workshop facilitators, from left to
right, Julie Whitis, Cliff Hart, and Deborah
Perkins. |
Project Learning
Tree: Middle and high school teachers do an
exercise from the “Forest Ecology” module of
lessons. |
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Food, Land and People:
Teachersdo an activity called "Pest or Guest" as
part of a series of lessons about pest management.
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Food, Land and
People: Workshop facilitators, from
left to right, Pat Brownfield, Cecilia Baker,
and Lynne Poston. |
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Curriculum
Resources Information:
Food, Land, and People
http://www.foodlandpeople.org
Kentucky International Studies Institute
Austria
Environmental Comparisons:
http://www.kiis.org/Bregenz/index.htm
KY Division of Forestry
http://www.webcom.com/duane/wood/kdf.html
Leopold Education Project
http://www.lep.org
National Energy Education
Development (NEED Project)
http://www.need.org
Northern Kentucky Environmental Education
Alliance
http://www.cinsam.org/alliances.html
http://www.nku.edu/~scienceed/professionaldev.htm
Project Learning Tree
National Site:
http://www.plt.org
Project WET
Project
Wild
National Site:
http://www.projectwild.org
KY Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources:
http://www.kdfwr.state.ky.us
Teaching Resources:
Tree Jeopardy (PDF 21 KB)
Website
Resources Information:
NKU
Science Education
http://www.nku.edu/~scienceed
Kentucky Association for Environmental
Education
http://www.kaee.org
North American Association for Environmental
Education
http://www.naaee.org
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