Schedule

Monday, August 17
9:00 - 10:00	Registration
10:00 - 12:00	Guided Canoe Exploration or Naturalist-led Hike
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch
1:00 - 2:50	Forestry Field Techniques, Pond Mucking, Wildlife Tracking
3:00 - 4:50	Forestry Field Techniques, Pond Mucking, Wildlife Tracking
5:00 - 6:00	Dinner
6:00 - 7:30	Evening Entertainment - Lumberjack Louie
7:30 - ?	Campfire Social
Tuesday, August 18
8:00 - 8:50	Registration
8:50 - 9:00	Welcome
9:00 - 9:25	Keynote Speaker
9:30 - 12:00	Sustainability workshop or Biofuels workshop
12:00 - 12:45	Lunch
12:45 - 3:15	Sustainability workshop or Biofuels workshop
3:15 - 4:00	ES Resource Sharing
4:00 - 4:30	Closing, Door Prizes, Free Resources

Monday Sessions
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

A) Guided Canoe Exploration
Alan Haney, Emeritus Professor of Forestry, UW-Stevens Point
Get an up-close look at one of the deeper glacial kettle lakes in Central Wisconsin. As you canoe the lake, you’ll discuss glacial geology, freshwater ecology, and activities that help young people gain appreciation for natural history. You’ll also discuss watersheds and wetlands and how they are related to water quality of lakes. Prior canoeing experience is not necessary.

B) Naturalist-led Hike
Dennis Yockers, Associate Professor of Environmental Education, UW-Stevens Point & Harv Hayden, Wisconsin Rapids School District
Take a relaxing hike through New Hope Pines State Natural Area in Portage County. It is one of over 500 state natural areas found in Wisconsin. You’ll explore the native plant communities along with their associated wildlife. Participants will have the opportunity to experience field-based natural history activities that can be done with students. You’ll also discuss how to incorporate the use of state natural areas into environmental science programs.

1:00 - 2:50 pm; repeated 3:00 - 4:50 pm

A) Forestry Field Techniques
Sarah Gilbert, Wisconsin K-12 Forestry Education Program
This session will introduce you to the LEAF 9-12 field materials, which include forest history, wildlife habitat, and timber inventory activities. The lessons are designed to initiate a community-based learning project. You’ll practice tree identification and measurement, habitat assessment, and forest history detection skills.

B) Pond Mucking
Kathy Cady, Winneconne High School & Erin Henegar, Clean Boats, Clean Waters Coordinator
Explore pond and lake ecosystems first-hand through invertebrate sampling and water testing activities. Learn about Wisconsin’s aquatic invasive species and how you and your students can educate community members to prevent their spread.

C) Wildlife Tracking
Pat Arndt, Berlin High School & Chad Janowski, Shawano High School
This hands-on workshop will include advanced wildlife tracking techniques with a Midwest focus. Participants will make a student tracking guide and plaster casts, identify tracks in the field, practice pelt and skull identification, and learn how to set up a student tracking exam.

6:00 - 7:30 pm

Lumberjacks Wanted…
Lumberjack Louie, aka Sterling Strathe
Give up your soft science teacher job and come work in the woods where white pine is king. Earn a dollar a day as you contribute to Wisconsin’s fledgling economy and help build a nation. Louie will get you ready for work as a lumberjack this fall while teaching you about life in a northwoods lumber camp. You might want to get in shape before arriving because you just might find yourself put to work. He’ll see y’all in the big woods and if you got a draft horse, bring it!

7:30 pm - ?

Campfire Social
Join fellow environmental science teachers for a campfire social. The outdoor firebowl makes the perfect setting for a relaxing evening. Networking and fun will abound! Feel free to bring a favorite snack or beverage to share. You can also enjoy an evening stroll to the lake or through the woods.

Tuesday Sessions
9:00 - 9:25 am

Keynote Speaker: Stanley A. Temple
Aldo Leopold and “the oldest task in human history”
Aldo Leopold once defined “the oldest task in human history” as “living on a piece of land without spoiling it.” Leopold’s ideas about living on the land eventually coalesced in his concepts of “land health” and “land ethic.” Land health was the objective of living sustainably on the land, and a land ethic was the fundamental motivation for achieving sustainability. Come trace the history of Leopold’s thinking on land health and the land ethic, especially as it applies to owners of private land.

Stanley A. Temple is the Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation in the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, and former Chair of the Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development Program at the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. For 32 years he occupied the faculty position once held by Aldo Leopold. Since his retirement from academia in 2007 he has been a Senior Fellow of the Aldo Leopold Foundation.

9:30 am - 12:00 pm; repeated 12:45 - 3:15 pm

A) Exploring Biofuels: Assessing Energy and Carbon Balance
Sara Krauskopf, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
This high school level activity considers the sustainability of different transportation fuels. Participants will be introduced to the concept of a life cycle assessment, focusing on energy and carbon cycling of corn-grain ethanol, cellulosic ethanol, and gasoline production systems. The workshop will allow you to engage in the activity as a learner, but also provide time for reflection and discussion of the complex concepts as a practitioner.

B) Sustainability Education in Your Classroom
Christine Kelly, Educational Designer & Jeremy Solin, Wisconsin K-12 Forestry Education Program Director
Sustainability – what is it and what does it mean for your environmental science course? In this session, we’ll go beyond the basics to challenge our thinking about sustainability as a goal and topic in your classroom and school. Through activities and active discussion you’ll discover new ways to engage students and broaden their thinking about the future.

3:15 - 4:00 pm

Environmental Science Resources Exchange
The Wisconsin Environmental Science Digital Resource Library was created to provide educators a place to share teaching resources. This online directory contains activities, labs, web sites, videos, books, and field trip and guest speaker suggestions. All material has been posted by Wisconsin’s environmental science teachers.

Before coming to the Summit, you’ll be asked to post your favorite environmental science teaching resource to the Digital Resource Library. At the Summit you’ll explain how you use this resource in your classroom. By the time the sharing session is done, you’ll have a wealth of new material to incorporate into your classes.

4:00 - 4:30 pm

Closing
We’ll finish the day with some inspiring words and great door prizes. There will also be time to browse and collect an array of free teaching resources from organizations in and outside Wisconsin.