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Less Screen, More Green
What educators need to know about safer screentime and tech-free greentime
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Conservation through Native American Petroglyphs
Lessons on protecting nature from the first conservationists
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Healthy Places, Sustainable Spaces
Everyday actions for healthy and sustainable learning environments
Math + Nature = Fun! with Cyberchase and Project Learning Tree – June 29th
For a list of resources mentioned during the webinar session and the recording, please click here.
Getting comfortable with outdoor learning (in all kinds of weather)
Presenter: Dave Quinn
Outdoor Educator Dave Quinn will explore some of the basic techniques and simple tools you can use to normalize outdoor learning for your students, and make it easier and more effective for you as a teacher to teach outdoors safely and effectively in all kinds of weather.
Dave Quinn is a wildlife biologist, a BC-certified teacher, and a certified wilderness guide leading expeditions in the Kootenays, the Canadian Arctic and West Coast, as well as overseas. Dave’s work as a photographer and writer is featured regularly in regional and national publications. He has over two decades of experience designing and delivering a range of experiential outdoor education programs to connect Kindergarten to College students to the natural world.
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Getting comfortable with outdoor learning (in all kinds of weather)
Presenter: Dave Quinn
Outdoor Educator Dave Quinn will explore some of the basic techniques and simple tools you can use to normalize outdoor learning for your students, and make it easier and more effective for you as a teacher to teach outdoors safely and effectively in all kinds of weather.
Dave Quinn is a wildlife biologist, a BC-certified teacher, and a certified wilderness guide leading expeditions in the Kootenays, the Canadian Arctic and West Coast, as well as overseas. Dave’s work as a photographer and writer is featured regularly in regional and national publications. He has over two decades of experience designing and delivering a range of experiential outdoor education programs to connect Kindergarten to College students to the natural world.
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Nature-Based Biology Activities from a Distance
Presenter: Cathy Law
Description:
Cathy Law, a veteran of 14 years of nature-based learning, will share her greatest hits of activities that biology students can perform outside while maintaining a safe social distance in the schoolyard, nature preserve, or at home. Getting kids outside to learn science couldn’t come at a better time now that we all need to be cautious about working in groups. Outdoor learning activities based on inquiry and discovery make your students’ learning experience both meaningful and memorable, but most importantly, FUN! Join in on the adventure and preview labs for yourself and see how you can bring excitement into your classroom by not using one! These activity ideas work really well for students under quarantine, too. Separately but together, students will enjoy learning in the finest class setting of them all — Mother Nature.
Cathy Law teaches Biology, Earth Science, and Field Biology at New Paltz High School in New Paltz, New York. She and her students started the Courtyard Gardens over twelve years ago; it features over 200 different kinds of plants in 15 themed garden zones. The mission of the garden is to create an outdoor learning center dedicated to understanding and improving the environment and to enable learning that is problem-based and interdisciplinary. Cathy presented our wildly popular webinar The Joy of Garden-based Education during Earth Month 2020.
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Caring for Our Earth’s Caregivers
Part 1:
Presenter: Dr. Kerry Crofton of Global Health Alliance
Originally aired: November 9th, 2022
Part 2:
Presenter: Dr. Kerry Crofton of Global Health Alliance
Originally aired: November 30th, 2022
Part 3:
Presenter: Dr. Kerry Crofton of Global Health Alliance
Co-hosts: Take Me Outside, Green Teacher
Originally aired: January 18th, 2023
Part 4:
Presenter: Dr. Kerry Crofton of Global Health Alliance
Originally aired: March 1st, 2023
Personal Wellness Webinars — at no charge — for Nature Conservationists, Environmental Advocates, and Educators.
Co-hosts: Take Me Outside, Green Teacher
And, as you know, only if we also take care of ourselves can we continue being of help to the natural world and nurturing young stewards of the Earth.
Please join us for this free webinar series and learn to protect your own wellbeing, as you care for our planet earth — and all her inhabitants.
You care deeply about sustainable living, land conservation, wilderness, wildlife and pollinators, depletion of the earth’s natural resources, pollution, climate change? This program will help you live more sustainably in maintaining your own health, energy, and mental wellbeing.
You often feel discouraged/angry/depressed by the workload and the masses who ignore the increasing peril? Those of us carrying the burdens of climate grief and burnout must find the time to replenish our own resources, even though we are prone to fatigue, burnout, depression, insomnia, and other stress-related conditions.
Learning Outcomes
Our Less Screen, More Green – Mindful Tech Plan™ offers science-based information and practical skills for your physical and mental wellbeing:
- preventing burnout, anxiety, depression, insomnia and tech overload;
- the healing powers of being in nature and developing your Sit Spot practice;
- vitality replenishing Chi Gong exercises and other mindfulness practices;
- best Screentime Practices: ergonomics to reduce computer and work-station stress; breaking free from smartphone and social media dependency/addiction; using digital media as a force for good; the science-based evidence and safer use of all things wired and wireless.
More details at:
www.LessScreenMoreGreen.org
www.GlobalHealthAlliance.ca
www.SaferTechSolutions.org
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Webinar #3 – How do our current needs fit into the transition?
Presenters: Markham Hislop
Originally aired: November 24th, 2021
How do you teach about decarbonization to students from families who are supported by carbon-intensive industries? The energy transition is an existential threat to the North American hydrocarbon economy, which has enjoyed 75 years of prosperity. How do we continue to have a prosperous economy while mitigating greenhouse gas emissions? How do we help communities reliant on these economies transition to other opportunities, such as turning bitumen into materials like carbon fibre and natural gas into “blue hydrogen”? Fortunately, these important questions have encouraging answers that you can explore with your students as part of visioning a low-carbon future. Join us as we explore the challenges for industry, workers, and governments, as well as the opportunities that could help communities adapt and thrive.
Markham Hislop (in his own words)
I’m a Canadian energy/climate journalist and host of the Energi Talks podcast. I also conduct video interviews with energy experts, write the Markham On Energy energy politics analysis columns, and write about the energy future. I’m frequently interviewed on Canadian radio and TV about energy transition issues.
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