Upcoming Workshops
Upcoming Workshops and Professional Development Events:
KAEE Sustainability Symposium
SAVE THE DATE! Friday June 22, 2012 Berea Folk Center, Berea KY
New this year: KAEE will be hosting a Sustainability Symposium located in Berea, Kentucky. It will be one day full of information, presentations, local foods, and tours! We will be talking about how sustainability has been part of KAEE’s story, what sustainability means to us today, and then we will go see it in action!
Berea is the beautiful home of Boone Tavern, Kentucky’s first “green” hotel and Berea College, which has been a pioneer in sustainable practices. Tours will include some of the college campus and community projects, including the Ecovillage. We feel that Berea is a great place to start conversation about what sustainability means as an organization and to you as our members!
Registration is now open and is $25 for students, $35 for KAEE members, and $45 for non-KAEE members. Cost includes lunch with healthy, local foods and all field trips. KAEE’s Sustainability Symposium promises to be a stimulating, fun experience so don’t miss out. Register Now!  http://kaee.org/symposium/.
West Kentucky Spring EE Training
Join us for a three day training on four nationally recognized environmental education curricula. Participants will receive certification in the Leopold Education Project (LEP), both as a facilitator and educator (can choose to attend only the facilitator event if already a trained LEP educator), Facing the Future, Project Learning Tree (PLT), Population Connection, Project Wet and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s aquatic education curriculum, the Biologist-in-Training (BiT) Program.
This training will take place Friday through Sunday, May 4th – 6th, 2012 at the West Kentucky 4-H Camp in Dawson Springs, KY. Register today at http://kaee.org/announcements/.
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SEEA and KAEE 36th Annual Conference – Call for Proposals
Save the Date! September 14-15, 2012, Lake Cumberland State Resort Park
Theme: Creating Balance
The Southeast Environmental Education Alliance (SEEA) will be hosting its first conference in conjunction with the KAEE conference this year. Join us for a great conference and hear from presenters across the Commonwealth and the southeast.
As environmental educators, we take a non-advocacy stance on environmental issues because our goal is to educate others and teach them how to think, not what to think. This difficult balancing act inspired the theme for KAEE’s 36th annual conference: “Creating Balance”.
The Call for Proposals has officially opened and an online submission form can be found http://kaee.org/conference/call-for-proposals/. Please feel free to pass this on to other people if you’d like them to submit a proposal for our review. We’re always happy to hear from new people who are interested in the many sides of environmental education! Proposals are due by April 15, 2012.
Project WET Workshop
Sponsored by the Kentucky Association for Environmental Education, University of Kentucky Extension Service, and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Inc.
Join us for a one day workshop on the nationally recognized Project Wet curriculum. This guide is comprised of more than 90 science-based, interdisciplinary activities, all of which are teacher-tested and classroom ready for K-12 students. Designed to meet national educational standards, Project WET activities cover divers topics and disciplines.
This training will take place on June 6, from 9-3 at TMMK on 1001 Cherry Blossom Way, Georgetown, KY 40324. To register, please visit kaee.org/announcements
Project Wild Workshops
All of the following workshops and facilitator’s trainings will take place at the Louisville Nature Center located at 3745 Illinois Avenue, Louisville, KY 40213. Advance reservation required. Reservations can be made by calling 1-502-458-1328. Workshops are designed for both formal and informal educators.
April 16, 2012: Growing Up WILD educators’ workshop. Louisville Nature Center from 4:30PM to 7:30PM. $10.00
April 28, 2012: Growing Up WILD facilitators’ workshop. Louisville Nature Center from 1:00 to 4:00 PM. $5.00 fee
Wetlands Restoration Techniques Workshops
http://www.wetlandsandstreamrestoration.org/
The Center for Wetlands and Stream Restoration would like to announce the availability of hands-on wetland restoration workshops for 2012. The practical training is intended to involve you in the design and construction of wetlands that can benefit specific amphibian, bat, bird, mammal, and reptile species. Participants will discover how to use highly successful and inexpensive techniques for restoring wetlands in fields, forests, and urban areas:
Wetland and Water Workshop, Southeast Arizona, April 24-26, 2012
Vernal Pond Construction Workshop, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, May 22-24, 2012
British Columbia Wildlife Federation Wetlands Institute, Sea to Sky Corridor near Squamish and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. July 9-15, 2012
St. Anne’s Wetland Restoration Workshop, Melbourne, Kentucky, September 6-8, 2012
Northeast Wetland Restoration Institute, Syracuse, New York, October 8-12, 2012
Wetland Restoration Workshop, Shawnee State Park, West Portsmouth, Ohio, October 16-18, 2012
Toyota Environmental Field Day
April 18, 2012
To celebrate National Environmental Education Week, Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. (TMMK) will host its annual Environmental Field Day on Wednesday, April 18th, 2012. This is an outdoor event for second graders, hosted at Toyota’s Environmental Education Center in northern Scott County. In celebration of the 5th anniversary of TMMK’s Environmental Education Center/ Nature Trail, reimbursement for transportation costs up to $600 will be awarded to the school selected. Additionally, lunch and t-shirts will be provided for all participants. To apply, go to: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ToyotaFieldDay2012
Environmental Education Naturalist Teaching Fellowship
Deadline: April 30
The Environmental Education Naturalist Teaching Fellowship is a 10 month term fellowship with the Forest Preserve District of Will County (Illinois). The fellowship is, by design, more than a seasonal position but a formal professional building program with mentoring, job shadowing, training and certifications, and performance evaluation.  The fellowship provides on-site housing, a monthly stipend amongst the many hours of training and program experience. Application packets are being accepted, via U.S. mail, until April 30. For more information on how to apply, please contact Jessica Prince at JPRINCE@fpdwc.org
Research Experience for Teachers – Appalachian Headwaters Health
June 4-15
Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Kentucky are jointly hosting a summer research experience for middle and high school teachers focused on watershed health in the Appalachian headwaters of Kentucky. Deadline: April 27. Space is limited to 10 participants. For more information melinda.wilder@eku.edu.
Caves, Critters, and Collaboration: Geographic Skill and Concepts for Teachers
June 5-14, 2012
Western Kentucky University will be offering a unique learning opportunity open to 5th-12th grade teachers during the summer of 2012. The course is a study away course called Geographic Skill and Concepts for Teachers in which participants will compare the physical and cultural geography of the karst regions of Mammoth Cave and of the Black Hills of South Dakota. Contact Ryan Difani at kga@wku.edu.
Climate Science Workshop
University of Kentucky’s Colleges of Agriculture and Education are hosting a climate science workshop for middle and high school teachers on June 11 – 12, 2012. Attendance is limited to 20 teachers, so please reserve your spot early. A stipend is available. Faculty will discuss some of the scientific concepts that underlie climate change. Throughout the workshop, teachers will participate in hands-on experiments, group discussions of experimental results and satellite data and instruction on critical use of the Internet. Contact Carol Hanley at chanley@uky.edu.
Floracliff Field Studies
Floracliff Field Studies Floracliff Nature Sanctuary is excited to announce the first series of new educational workshops called the Floracliff Field Studies. The main purpose of the workshop series is to highlight biodiversity through hands-on experience. For the first four workshops, we will be focusing on the botanical, aquatic, or fungal diversity of mostly Floracliff and Kentucky, but in some cases also examining national and global diversity of some groups of species. Each workshop will cost $50, which covers a book or other resource for everyone who attends. All workshops will start at Floracliff, but will include field trips to other regional locations. We will be offering one scholarship per workshop to a current college student. http://www.floracliff.org/fieldstudies.html
June 22-23:Â Backyard Wildlife Habitats
July 13-14:Â Mushrooms
September 7-8:Â Aquatic Biodiversity
November 3-4:Â Conifers
Learn and Live Sustainability in Bregenz Austria
Date of Event: July 6-15, 2012
Location: Bregenz Austria
Description: Dr. Joe Baust, Director for the Center for Environmental Education at Murray State University will be offering a program for the 14th year in Bregenz Austria. Bregenz a community of about 28,000 people in Western Austria has been noted and awarded for its efforts in sustainability. The ten day program in concert with the KY Institute for International Studies provides free graduate school tuition (3 semester hours) and the cost for 10 days includes two meals a day, room and excursions is exceptional for $1,595 plus an application fee of $150. Airfare is extra. Contact: Dr. Joe Baust, Center for Environmental Education, Murray State University, 3201 Alexander Hall, Murray, KY 42071; Phone: 270-809-2537, cell 270-293-7273.
Hand-on Amazon:Â Summer Travel Study
July 20-28, 2012
The Heritage Institute, in conjunction with Antioch University and Project Amazonas, Inc., is offering a summer travel study course: Hands-on Amazon. The course is limited to 15 participants.  Participants may wish to continue their travel in Perú to Machu Picchu or onward – advice is available. For more information and to see if this course is right for you, please visit the link below: http://ptonline.org/hol/amazon/
