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Importance of Connecting Children with Nature
Teacher Enhancement Course
Thursday, June 18, 2009
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Fee: $70 (plus $30 for ½ CSM credit)
Register for both courses for $120 per person, plus $30/course for ½ CSM credit

Course Description: Richard Louv's book Last Child in the Woods propelled the "No Child Left Inside" movement. Understand the history of the movement and its relationship to education. Discover how to get students outside academically and physically while designing lessons to get students outside on school grounds.

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Cycles - Past and Present
Teacher Enhancement Course
Friday June 19, 2008
8:00am - 4:30pm

Fee: $70 (plus $30 for ½ CSM credit)
Register for both courses for $120 per person, plus $30/course for ½ CSM credit

Course Description: Cycles can occur over a variety of time periods - from a few years to millennia. Experience change over time with Denver Museum of Nature and Science curators who will lead us through their investigations. See how dung beetle populations alter with the reintroduction of bison at the Plains Center’s West Bijou site. Examine a world famous exposure of the K-T boundary and learn about the extinction of the dinosaurs and how mammals survived and then flourished.

Left, a researcher points to the K-T Boundary at West Bijou.

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Dave Showalter

Serendipitous Saturdays

The Plains Center is open to the public

Saturdays
9 am - 5 pm
No charge.

Check these links for some great tips for a more sustainable lifestyle:
FREE Home Irrigation System Audits, Slow the Flow Colorado:
http://www.conservationcenter.org/w_SlowtheFlowColorado.htm

Home Energy Checklist for Action
http://www.aceee.org/consumerguide/chklst.htm

Ten Big Things You Can Do for the Environment
http://www.ilea.org/topten.html#_Tip4

Wisconsin Foodshed Research Project
http://www.cias.wisc.edu/foodshed/index.html

Earth Friendly Cleaners
http://www.ecocycle.org/hazwaste/recipes.cfm

Recycling, conservation and more
http://www.ecocycle.org/index.cfm

Take Action At Work
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/atwork.htm

Seafood Watch--Monterey Bay Aquarium
http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/SeafoodWatch/web/sfw_factsheet.aspx

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