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Upcoming LEAF Workshops and Courses
(additional Learning Opportunities below)

SPRING 2010
 NEW! FUELS FOR SCHOOLS
Non-LEAF Learning Opportunities SPECIAL! LEAF Workshop: National Assoc of Interpretation

SPRING 2010

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

Graduate Credit SCHOLARSHIPS Available!*

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!  Our workshop teaches you key principles, activities and techniques to easily integrate forestry education into your classroom.  You'll receive a grade-specific unit of our highly-regarded "LEAF Wisconsin K-12 Forestry Lesson Guide" and additional forestry-related education materials.  REGISTRATION FEE IS $25*

STOUGHTON (pdf)
Friday, March 12 AND Saturday, March 13
Stoughton High School
Deadline: March 1, 2010

ANTIGO (pdf)
Friday, March 19 AND Saturday, March 20
Antigo High School
Deadline: March 9, 2010

WESTBY-VIROQUA (pdf)
Friday, March 26 AND Saturday, March 27
Westby High School
Deadline: March 16, 2010

WAUPACA (pdf)
Friday, April 16 AND Saturday April 17
Waupaca High School
Deadline: April 6, 2010

BALSAM LAKE(pdf)
Friday, April 23 AND Saturday, April 24
Unity High School
Deadline: April 13, 2010

SUPERIOR (pdf)
Friday, April 30 and Saturday, May 1
Superior Adult Learning Center
Deadline: April 20, 2010

*Partial Scholarships for Graduate Credit Available! 
You may take this workshop for 1 graduate credit as NRES 740.  The first eight people to register for credit for each course listed above will receive the scholarship toward the cost of the credit. To qualify you MUST indicate your intention to earn credit on the registration form. You will then be contacted to submit an additional “for-credit” registration form and make the $100 co-payment. The cost of the graduate credit without the scholarship is $372.55.  An additional assignment including teaching a LEAF lesson and creating a strategic plan for implementing LEAF lessons in your classroom is REQUIRED.

Don’t see your community on our list? Make a request! leaf@uwsp.edu

NEW   *   FUELS FOR SCHOOLS  *  NEW


APRIL 9th and 10th

The KEEP energy education program and LEAF forestry education program have teamed up!

This fact-filled, idea-filled graduate course will answer such burning questions as:

  • What is woody biomass?
  • What are the positive and negative effects of using woody biomass as an energy source?
  • How do we develop and manage woody biomass as an energy source?

The course, open to 7-12 grade teachers, includes background information, classroom activities, and resources for using woody biomass as a great learning opportunity for your students.

CRANDON "Fuels for Schools" (pdf)
Friday, April 9, 4:30 PM to 8:30 PM & Saturday, April 10, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Crandon High School, 9750 US Hwy 8 West, WI 54520
Instructor: Cindy Edlund
DEADLINE: March 26, 2010

Limited Scholarships Available!  Scholarship recipients will only pay $50.
LEAF and KEEP will be providing scholarships to the first 12 teachers who register for this course.  Full cost of this course is $387.55 ($372.55 tuition for UWSP Graduate credit and $15 course materials). Once the scholarships are gone, teachers will need to pay the full $387.55 course fee. Participants are responsible for attending the course, creating and presenting curriculum integration plans during the course, and completing a post-course assignment. The assignment is designed to have participants create a product that will support their efforts to integrate Biomass concepts into their classroom lessons.

How to Register:
Register by completing and returning the form with payment.
Please include your email address.
Sign-up soon – scholarships are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis: when we
receive your registration and $50 check made out to "LEAF".
DEADLINE: March 26, 2010

LEAF PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
NATIONAL ASSOC of INTERPRETATION

Special! National Association of Interpretation Pre-conference Workshop
Forestry Education Toolbox for Non-formal Educators
April 7th, 2010 Wisconsin Dells

LEAF’s unique workshop will teach non-formal educators how to easily infuse the LEAF forestry field and classroom lessons into your current programs. LEAF’s lessons are easy to understand, easy to implement, and we’ve been told they are FUN! LEAF will provide a quality, fast-paced workshop worth the time you will invest.

REGISTRATION FORM  (pdf)
Registration fee $25.
Deadline March 26th.

Non-LEAF Learning Opportunities

Free Green & Healthy Schools Workshop!
February 12, 2010
Lussier Family Heritage Center, Madison

The Green & Healthy Schools Program is conducting a day long workshop on February 12, 2010 at the Lussier Family Heritage Center in Madison, to provide south central Wisconsin area school staff, teachers and administrators with training on how to incorporate GHS into their schools. The workshop will connect face to face program staff with the area schools and bring local resources and schools together. This workshop will provide an in-depth introduction to the program; connect area resources, such as businesses, nature centers, non-profit organizations and local government, with the schools; and help individual schools develop a plan for making their school green and healthy.

Special note: Substitute teacher costs will be covered by the DNR thanks to a grant from the Wisconsin Environmental Education Board.

Register early - visit the Green & Healthy Schools website, space is limited!
 

The Einstein Project MORE INFO including registration forms:  www.einsteinproject.org

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