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2010 Teacher Workshops
Growing Roots: Connecting Educators
and their Children to Nature
Have you ever longed for an opportunity to slow down and connect with Nature? Even more importantly, have you wished you knew how to connect your own child with Nature?
Today, we hear so much about “Nature Deficient Disorder” in children, but in actuality, most of us are suffering from this in one way or another. We rarely take long walks in the woods or linger by a stream to watch for wildlife. Few people today are comfortable enough in the woods to even consider taking their own family on a Nature adventure.
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McDowell Environmental Center is offering the perfect solution to this conundrum this summer. The Growing Roots: Connecting Educators and their Children to Nature workshop will be held June 21-23, 2010 at Camp McDowell near the Bankhead National Forest. Total cost of the workshop is only $50 per family and this includes 2 nights lodging and meals.
The workshop will allow a limited number of educators to bring their own child or grandchild on a once in a lifetime adventure that will include hikes to learn edible and medicinal plants, geology lessons and fossil digs at the Minkin Paleozoic Trackway. Participants will combine nature and art through mosaics. Trips to wade and swim in beautiful Clear Creek will include lessons on the invertebrates and fish that live in our local Alabama waters.
All of this adventure and learning is set against the backdrop of the beauty of Camp McDowell’s 1100 acres of forests, sandstone canyons, streams and waterfalls. And what an amazing way to share three days with your child!
Living River Field School
June 6-12, 2010
Living Streams: the Ecology of the Cahaba River
| The new Living River Environmental Center site will be our base for two three-day workshops of the Cahaba River and its watershed. Wade, float, paddle and otherwise be immersed in hands-on study of the shoals, pools and bottomland hardwood forests of the Cahaba River. This globally significant river system will be the classroom for studies of aquatic bio-diversity. |
Cahaba Lilies blooming on the Cahaba River |
Along the way we will venture into the wetlands, ponds, forests and other natural communities that make up the Living River site. Become trained in the Living Streams curriculum by Dr Bill Deutsch and the Alabama Water Watch. Receive certification in Project WET. The Living Streams Ecology workshop is design for classroom teachers, non-formal educators and anyone interested in learning about the amazing Cahaba River.
Accommodations in UA Field School tents, delicious food and all equipment provided. Participants will take home many materials for their classroom, including the Living Streams Curriculum, Project WET curriculum. A detailed what to bring list is included with the registration packet.
Two sessions available:
June 6-8 and June 10-12
Cost: $50 deposit due with registration
Registration limited to 25 participants each session.
To register, contact:
Matthew Miller, Director of Living River Environmental Center
by calling 205-387-1806 or email at: matthewmiller328@gmail.com
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