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LEAF STAFF RETREAT: A Visit With Rhinelander Environmental Stewardship Academy
FREE Tree Seedlings for 4th Graders - order yours NOW!
2010 Arbor Day poster and writing contest winners announced!
GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
Rib Lake Students Witness Sustainable Forest Practices
Boston School Forest Honors Mr. B
Classroom Earth Grants Page
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WI School Forest: Rudolph Environmental Center
New Recreation Trail at CAVOC School Forest
Plans Underway for New School Forest
Area School Districts Stand Behind School Forests
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LEAF Online
Network and become part of our growing
community in a Moodle environment!
Do you want to network with other teachers who love to
teach and who share your love of the outdoors? Need
ideas about teaching outdoors? Join
LEAF’s Online
Network!
To get started, email Dan Martinson for a username and password or simply visit our Moodle site and click on "create new account" in the upper right corner of the screen. Our Moodle includes ALL of the LEAF curriculum, forums for teachers to connect, a school forest community, news from LEAF and news our members post, a mechanism for sharing lessons, and, of course, the ability to grow our Moodle into what teachers need.
Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) Awareness
Learn about the signs and symptoms of EAB infestation. This information can be found at the EAB Web site at www.emeraldashborer.wi.gov
Since 2008, EAB infestations have been located in the
Village of Newburg (Ozaukee/Washington Counties),Victory
(Vernon/Crawford Counties), and in Cudahy, Franklin, and
Oak Creek (Milwaukee County). Adult beetles have also
been found in Green Bay and Kenosha.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed a
new suite of educational materials for children designed
to promote awareness of the emerald ash borer and help
prevent its spread through the movement of firewood:
Visit
http://www.stopthebeetle.info/kidscorner/
News Flash!
LEAF/Goodman-Armstrong Creek Partnership
Receives WI DPI Award!
(pdf)
LEAF's School of Excellence
Goodman-Armstrong Creek
School District
LEAF in the News
Wisconsin State Journal
"The occasion was billed as "Principal for a Day,"
but for some Toki Middle School students, it was a day
to feel like king of the forest . . .
(more)
WMTV - Madison NBC15:
October 19, 2010 Newsclip
NEW!
Climate Change through Tree Planting
In this new LEAF lesson, students explore the role trees can play in
addressing climate change. Students brainstorm and
discuss the benefits that trees provide. They design a
tree planting effort with the opportunity to develop a tree
planting plan for their school or community.
(more . . .)
Neat Idea for lesson
expansion:
Check out this neat video on ClimateWisconsin.org:
http://climatewisconsin.org/story/forestry
DOES YOUR SCHOOL DISTRICT HAVE A SCHOOL FOREST?
Find out:
LIST
(pdf)
Wisconsin Environmental Literacy Plan
State Superintendent Tony Evers has asked the
Wisconsin
No Child Left Inside Coalition to develop the state’s
first environmental literacy plan to address the
environmental education needs of Wisconsin’s
pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade schools.
The
Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education
is a leader in developing this initiative!
Wisconsin High School Forestry Education Kits
They are ready and waiting and you can literally "check them out"!