AEOE 2005 Statewide Spring Conference: "California's People and Places" Conference Resources

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INDEX: Workshops | Speakers | Entertainment | Howard Bell Award | Vendors | Auction Items / Tea House / Other Resources

Workshops:

Below are workshops whose presenters have sent in materials for publication on the web relating to their workshops. For full workshop descriptions and a complete list of workshops that were at the conference, click here. Some of the handouts are PDF files - click here to get Adobe Reader (free).

Workshop Strands: Historical California | California Today: Neighborhoods and Issues/Leadership and Diversity | The Art of Teaching/Pedagogy | Hands-on Curriculum | Ecosystem Science and Natural History

Historical California: Learning From the Past, Exploring Environment Over Time

• Discovering San Francisco Bay Watershed: Then and Now Jessica Parsons, Save the Bay
  WORKSHOP RESOURCES: The best resource is the Save the Bay Website: www.savesfbay.org - See Summer Educator Workshops Save the Bay is offering - CLICK HERE

• 25 Cent Man: Using California's New Quarter as a Teaching Tool Sarah Lemley, Yosemite Institute & Pete Devine, Yosemite Association
  WORKSHOP HANDOUTS: Background and Resources; and the 25 Cent Man Game (also available as a print-friendly PDF file: click here)

• California's Central Valley - Connecting the Outdoor School Experience to Students' Lives Dan Webster, Foothill Horizons Outdoor School
  WORKSHOP HANDOUT with resources, books, websites, and information about California's Great Valley

• How to Convert Christians to Environmentalism Scott Smithson, Mission Springs Outdoor Education
  WORKSHOP RESOURCES: Article Scott mentioned in workshop: “The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis,” by Lynn White (pdf-161k). This article was first published in 1967 in Science (155: 1203-1207) - if you search for the article online, you can also find commentary from a variety of sources; ALSO - See the new Spiritual EE pages with many links to Christian (and other religions/spiritual paths) Environmentalism, including Bible verses supporting environmental stewardship. Click Here (Scott's comments on the Lynn White article are here as well)
  
• Multicultural Environmental Education, Running Grass, Three Circles Center - read more about Running Grass here and more about his Key Ideas in Multicultural Environmental Education here; also see this Conversation with Running Grass for more ideas of the thought-provoking and inspiring dialogue that may come out of this workshop!
  WORKSHOP RESOURCES: See the links in the workshop description above. Also see the AEOE Diversity/Multicultural EE Pages

• Understanding Poverty: Strategies for Connecting the Unconnected Scott "Burl" Klein, Exploring New Horizons Outdoor School
  LINKS TO RESOURCES: The book: A Framework for Understanding Poverty, Dr. Ruby Payne's website and publishing company: aha! Process, Inc., a company "devoted to educating professionals and community leaders about the effects of class and poverty on our society."

• The Great Society rikki Shackelford, Web of Life Field (WOLF) School
  Interactive activity to engage students to learn about diversity.
  WORKSHOP HANDOUT: Great Society Activity Write Up also available as a print-friendly PDF file (52K)

The Art of Teaching/Pedagogy

• English Language Learners & Environmental Education Pei-yee Woo, Headlands Institute and Eric Godoy
  WORKSHOP HANDOUT (or download HERE as a pdf- 84K) | Brainstorm of ideas for Checking for Understanding

• Keeping the Magic Alive Steve Van Zandt, San Mateo Outdoor Education
  WORKSHOP HANDOUT (from his 2003 workshop at Jones Gulch)

• Beyond The Lorax: Environmental Literature & Poetry, Elizabeth Simmons & Anna Padget, The Outdoor School at Rancho Alegre
  WORKSHOP HANDOUT; also, Read more about using Children's Literature on the trail here

Hands-On Curriculum

• An Introduction to Project WET: Hands-on with the Properties of Water Brian Brown, Water Education Foundation
  WORKSHOP HANDOUTS: "Brian's Lesson Plans" and "Camp Campbell Storylines"; RESOURCES: Project WET website: www.water-ed.org; also see this FIT (Forestry Institute for Teachers) Workshop Flyer ; If anyone has questions I can be reached at: or (916) 444-6240 - Brian 'Mr. Bear' Brown

• People Count: Activities on Population and Sustainability Helen de la Maza, Orange County Dept. of Education's Inside the Outdoors Program
  WORKSHOP RESOURCES: Population Connection's Population Education Program Website: http://www.populationeducation.org
  If people attend a workshop, they receive a free CD (value $10) with 50 PDFs of hands-on activities that are excellent!! To purchase the CD online, click here.
  WORKSHOP HANDOUTS: Teaching Population: Hands-On Activities (CD-ROM) and a 2004 World Population Data Chart
  This workshop will be offered again in the fall at the southern conference (November 4-6, 2005, Highland Springs Resort in Cherry Valley).

Ecosystem Science & Natural History

• UFOs: Raptor Classification and Field Identification Traci Fesko, Regional Learning Center
  WORKSHOP RESOURCES: Links, resources, and contact information, click here; WORKSHOP HANDOUT: Raptor Chart (PDF-64K)

• Where is the mud? The state of wetland restoration in the San Francisco Bay Sarah Davies, San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
  WORKSHOP RESOURCES: Wetland Ecology PowerPoint presentation (pdf-1MB); Wetland Restoration Sites around SF Bay (pdf-56K)

• Maximum Marine Mammal Merriment - Life on the Edge in the Waterworld Steve Wood, Headlands Institute, Headlands Institute, and John Sanders, KEEP Cambria Pines
  WORKSHOP HANDOUTS: Available in PDF or Word (PDF will preserve the formatting for use as-is, Word will allow you to modify the games to suit your needs, but formatting may not come through correctly, depending on your version of Word) Marine Mammal Adaptation Game - PDF or Word; Gray Whale Migration Game - PDF or Word; Gray Whale Migration Game Cards - PDF or Word

Speakers:

• Bonus Keynote - John Hendrickson - Jon Young got stuck in traffic and didn't make the scheduled morning keynote - fortunately, we had lots of great talent and inspiration among our own, in the person of John Hendrickson, previous keynote speaker (1993), previous Howard Bell Award winner (1995), author of Raptors: Birds of Prey, and retired Director of Woodleaf Outdoor School. "Teepee John" Hendrickson, stepped up and gave us a wonderfully inspiring impromptu keynote speech - on 5 minutes notice! He spoke of defining moments in his childhood, of learning from students, of the difference between ignorance and apathy ("I don't know, I don't care"!) and why the first is a result of the second, and he spoke to our hearts on how to care, truly care, for our students, for truly "they won't care how much you know, until they know how much you care."
  Interview with John Hendrickson, which is a summary of his talk - click here to read it!

• Lunchtime Keynote - Jon Young

• History - Bill Hammerman discussed the "Early Days of Outdoor Education." For more about the history of AEOE: A Stroll through AEOE's Defining Moments (timeline), History of AEOE, The Stump Story, The Clear Creek Story, Howard Bell, and Conference History

• Evening Keynote - Bertram Chatham

Entertainment:

• Friday Night: Salsa Profundo

• Saturday Night: Hardcore Bluegrass with Buckeye Flatts

• Late Saturday Night Reggae with DJ Big Steve-O and Comanche Sound (hosted by the Walker Creek Staff)

Howard Bell Award

AEOE is pleased to honor Jenny and Marty Rigby of Acorn Naturalists with the 2005 Howard Bell Award. The award was given in two parts, due to the busy schedules of the recipients - first on Friday afternoon at the COSA (California Outdoor School Administrators) meeting to Jenny Rigby, then on Saturday night before the skit contest/talent show to Marty Rigby. Read about the Rigby's and the good work they do for Environmental and Outdoor Education in California HERE. Read about the Howard Bell award and its history HERE.

Vendors

Acorn Naturalists is the premier provider of teaching materials and books to the environmental education community. Acorn Naturalists has donated many items to AEOE for prizes, awards, and auctions to raise money for scholarships, and they have generously donated space for meetings as well. They are our preferred vendor for books and other materials. Acorn Naturalists is an AEOE Institutional Member. This year, AEOE honored the work of Acorn Naturalists' owners/founders Jenny and Marty Rigby with the Howard Bell Award!

Heyday Books: Heyday Books covers a wide range of topics with the same kind of thoroughness and commitment to quality that it invests in California Indian subjects. Anthologies of poetry, literature, and nonfiction writing encourage a variety of California voices to tell the state's fascinating story. Heyday has published over one hundred books and two successful magazines, News from Native California and Bay Nature, and the company has taken a lead role in dozens of prominent public education programs throughout the state. Heyday will honor its thirty years by continuing to discover, nurture, and release into the world objects of depth, true value, and beauty. We will be giving an extended run to our Great Valley Books imprint, which promotes wide appreciation of the diverse Central Valley. The years to come will also show Heyday’s renewed commitment to publishing quality children’s literature with a regional focus, as we hope to publish six to eight children’s titles per year. Under our California Legacy series, Santa Clara University and Heyday Books will be releasing a line of essential writings by some of California’s most important authors, including William Saroyan, John Muir, and Mary Austin. If you live and work in and teach about California, you MUST have some Heyday Books in your library!

Bay Nature Magazine: Bay Nature is the first magazine that explores the natural world of the Bay Area. Four times a year, Bay Nature delivers gorgeous photographs and original art; intriguing articles about local creatures, wild places, and natural history; maps and directions to first-hand experiences; and much more. Bay Nature sharpens your powers of observation and deepens your outdoor experiences. We answer your nagging questions about nature and pique your curiosity even further. In the process, we hope Bay Nature inspires you to protect and restore the irreplaceable Bay Area environment from coastline to ridgeland, from bay wetlands to oak woodlands, from redwood forests to wildflower meadows.

Auction Items, Tea House, and Other Resources:

Auction Donors List of Organizations/Companies who donated items to the Silent and Live Auctions - if you weren't the winning bid on an auction item, find it here!

COSA's Best Practices Guide: COSA (California Outdoor School Administrators) is seeking submission of outstanding and exemplary outdoor lessons which can be included in a planned publication entitled, "Best Practices Guide to Teaching in the Outdoors."  The purpose of the guide will be to assemble the best lessons and trail plans that are taught at residential outdoor schools throughout California.  The "Best Practices Guide" will be used to train new staff or to offer greater resources to instructors at California's Outdoor Science Schools. This is what Mike Grant told us about at the Campfire -"you won't get any money, but you'll be published!" Submit your lessons and continue the AEOE conference tradition of sharing knowledge and improving the state of EE in California!

CREEC The California Regional Environmental Education Community is a great resource, if you haven't found it. Divided into smaller regions, the CREEC calendars will tell you what is going on in your local area - events, training, opportunities, and EE Providers. There was a CREEC table in the Maple Rooom. Get connected - go to creec.org!

EdChange Tools for Multicultural Education A packet of these great handouts were left out on the table at the Tea House: "20 (Self-)Critical Things I Will Do to Be a Better Multicultural Educator"; "Six Critical Paradigm Shifts for Equity in Education"; "The IS and the ISN'T of Multicultural Education"; "Stages of Multicultural School Transformation"; "7 Key Characteristics of a Multicultural Education Curriculum"; All of these and more are available as Word and PDF files for download and sharing on the "Free Handouts and Tools" page of the Teacher's Corner of the Multicultural Pavilion of EdChange.org - what a great resource! Thank you to Katie Davis of Field to Market to You for bringing those in!

High Country News - there were quite a few of these great magazines of the west out in the Tea Room area of the Maple Room at the conference.

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