A 4 1/2 day workshop June 18-23, 2012 in Colorado's Rocky Mountains exploring and creating together an educational model teaching secondary education students the tools/values of collaboration and connections. The created curriculum will then be modeled by a private expeditionary learning school in Kansas City in the fall of 2012 with results shared nationally. Workshop, lodging and all meals included in the cost of $500 per person based on double occupancy at Shadowcliff Lodge located at the western entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. www.shadowcliff.org For more information contact Kathy Baldwin-Heitman principal@KCAcademy.org or Robert Mann rjm@shadowcliff.org
A recycling resource page with an emphasis on recycling steel and the benefits it has for saving energy and conserving natural resources.
A 25 question quiz for those learning more about recycling and the impact it has on our environment.
This website features lessons learned from Environmental Success Stories.
Though richly diverse, these stories share a common plotline: Each combines the right environmental technology with the social organization to put it into practice. A single catalytic change tips a declining system in a new direction. After a strategic jump-start, nature takes over, using its inborn powers to mend itself. There’s a bonus: Because cities, neighborhoods and nations are intimately intertwined with their natural support systems, EcoTipping Points help to solve social problems as well.
There are a variety of downloadable LESSON PLANS, short videos, and other educational materials for students of all ages. Use this material to inspire your students to create positive change in their own communities!
Lesson plan for 3rd grade
Lesson Plan for 5th grade
Lesson plan for 5th grade
Lesson plan for 1st graders
Find the state standards that refer to water education
Location: Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, Aspen, CO
$150 + Optional 1 Graduate Credi $55
The first skill in learning geology is making good observations of rocks... Are you a good observer? Join an experienced geologist Mike Zawaski to test your observation skills this summer! Would you be able to tell that Colorado has been covered by oceans multiple times, that we had a volcanic eruption only 4000 years ago, or that we were once located at a collision point of two of Earth's plates?
Come to ACES and learn how to determine past environments that existed when different Colorado rocks formed and why those rocks are now the tops of mountains. In addition to spending lots of time looking at rocks from all over Colorado in the classroom, half of the course will be spent investigating local rocks to apply our new knowledge to learn the geologic history of the area.
