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Upcoming LEAF Workshops and Courses
(additional Learning Opportunities below)

NRES 740: Forestry Education in the
WI K-12 Classroom
 Non-LEAF Learning Opportunities

NRES 740 Forestry Education for the Wisconsin K-12 Classroom

Eager to teach your students the critical thinking skills they need using a topic
that relates to the world right outside their door?

 If you are interested in helping K-12 students understand the incredible value of Wisconsin’s forests – both urban and rural - LEAF’s classroom-based workshop offers you this opportunity! The workshop teaches you key principles, activities and techniques to easily integrate forestry education into your classroom. As a participant, you will receive a grade-specific unit of our highly-regarded LEAF Wisconsin K-12 Forestry Lesson guide, along with LEAF's Wildland Fire and Urban Forest Lesson guides.  PLEASE NOTE: Each workshop runs the first day, 4:30 pm-8:30pm through the second day, 8:00am-4:30pm.

NOVEMBER 2009

PLATTEVILLE (pdf)
Friday, November 6 AND Saturday, November 7
Platteville Middle School
Instructor: Sally Ellingboe
Registration: $25 materials fee*
Deadline: October 30, 2009

Wauwatosa/Milwaukee (pdf)
Friday, November 13 AND Saturday, November 14
Wisconsin Lutheran High School
Instructor: Sally Ellingboe
Registration: $25 materials fee*
Deadline: November 2, 2009

*Limited Scholarships for Graduate Credit Available!
You may take this workshop for 1 graduate credit as NRES 740! An additional assignment including teaching a LEAF lesson and creating a strategic plan for implementing LEAF lessons in your classroom is REQUIRED.

The first eight people to register for credit for EACH COURSE will receive the scholarship towards the cost of the credit. Eight scholarships per course will be awarded.  To qualify you MUST indicate your intention to earn credit on the attached registration form. You will then be contacted to submit an additional “for-credit” registration and make the $125 payment. The cost of the graduate credit without the scholarship is $372.55.

 

PROJECT LEARNING TREE and LEAF
team up to offer this unique opportunity!

Here's your chance to get the award winning Project Learning Tree (PLT) PreK-8 Activity Guide AND Wisconsin's own LEAF lesson guide in one workshop. 

Appleton (pdf)
Friday, November 13 AND Saturday, November 14
Paper Discovery Center, 425 West Water Street, Appleton
Instructor: Jeremy Solin
Registration: $40 materials fee*
Deadline: November 2, 2009

*Limited Scholarships for Graduate Credit Available!
You may take this workshop for 1 graduate credit as NRES 740 for $50! An additional assignment including teaching a LEAF lesson and creating a strategic plan for implementing LEAF lessons in your classroom is REQUIRED.

The first eight people to register for credit will receive the scholarship towards the cost of the credit. To qualify you MUST indicate your intention to earn credit on the attached registration form. You will then be contacted to submit an additional “for-credit” registration and make the $50 payment. The cost of the graduate credit without the scholarship is $372.55.



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Non-LEAF Learning Opportunities

The Einstein Project - October In-Service Training
Thursday, October 29, 2009    8a.m. to 1 p.m.
East De Pere Middle School, 700 Swan Road, De Pere, WI

The Fall In-Service is designed to involve you in hands-on investigations of scientific phenomena.  The sessions are specifically designed to help teachers become familiar with the materials and units.

MORE INFO including registration forms:  www.einsteinproject.org
Registration due OCTOBER 16th!

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