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Contact us
EECSD.info@gmail.com
EECSD President
c/o SD Discovery Center
805 W Sioux Ave.
Pierre, SD 57501
EECSD Treasurer
PO Box 68
Mission Hill, SD 57046
EECSD supports
No Child Left Inside
No Child Left Inside
authorizes new funding for states to provide high-quality, environmental
instruction.
Funds would support
outdoor learning activities both at school and in non-formal
environmental education centers, teacher training and the implementation
of state environmental literacy plans.
To see an example of how
enviro ed can help students learn watch the video
Get 'Em Outside
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Welcome
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Thank you
for stopping by our website. We
hope you find what you are looking for.
If you don't, please feel free to contact
us through our email, discussion group
or the President (email below) with your
request for information.
EECSD
to host Guidelines training!
The Guidelines for Excellence in
Environmental Education provide a
complete framework to design and
implement balanced, comprehensive and
scientifically accurate environmental
education. EECSD received a grant
from the Environment Education and
Training Partnership to conduct an
instate training to familiarize those in
EE with the Guidelines.
At the training you will:
- Be better equipped to embed environmental education into existing
content standards,
- Learn how EE supports 21st
Century skills,
- Understand how to facilitate a strong
EE presence in South Dakota as No Child
Left Inside wends its way through the
federal lawmaking process.
This
training is scheduled for
June 18 - 19, 2009. The training
will start at 1PM June 18 and conclude
by 12PM June 19. Bora Simmons, the
lead facilitator and driving force
behind the entire Guidelines for
Excellence project, will be
facilitating. Former classroom teacher
and college professor, Ms. Simmons is an
excellent presenter and will help you
see the academic value of EE in a new
light. A travel stipend
is available.
To
participate in the training, please
email Anne Lewis (annelewis(at)sd-discovery.com.
(Replace (at) with ampersand) or call
605-224-8295.
Please
see our our Practices page for more
about the
Guidelines.
Biomonitoring
Documents Online
If you would like to take your classes
outdoors to learn, then biomonitoring is
the tool for you. Developed by
SDSU professor Dr. Jerry Krueger,
biomonitoring engages your students in
real life learning in the outdoors.
Extend your ecology unit throughout the
school year by having your students
monitor the outdoor world.
To help
you get started, please see
EECSD's
Resources page where you will find
the Getting Started in Biomonitoring
and Biomonitoring Correlations to
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About Us |
| EECSD is committed to connecting people to environmental
education resources. Our goal is to increase
environmental literacy through environmental education.
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Discussion
Group |
| We invite you to join our discussion
group and connect with other people involved in
environmental education throughout the state and region.
Whether you want to ask a question, announce an event or
just keep up on the latest news in the EE world, you will
find this group to be helpful.
First time contributors to the
discussion group are moderated to prevent spam. After
that, you may post whenever you wish. Please see the
Group's
Terms of Service for more information about posting
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EECSD News &
Announcements |
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affiliate member of the
North American Environmental Education Association.
Through this affiliation, EECSD has access to the latest
news, the best resources and an international network of
people involved in similar work. Subscribers to the
EECSD discussion group will receive forwards of NAAEE e-news and
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Mission
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The
Mission of Environment Education Connections of South Dakota
is to connect people with environmental education resources
through professional development, networking, capacity
building and educational outreach in order to increase
environmental literacy.
Networking
EECSD connects classroom teachers, non-formal
educators, agency outreach staff and volunteer leaders of youth
organizations with each other and EE providers.
EECSD connects people with EE resources and
information.
EECSD connects people through the website, the
discussion group and events.
Capacity Building
EECSD works to increase understanding of EE and its practices amongst educators,
agency staff, youth workers and their administrators as well as the
general public.EECSD builds the capacity of organizations to
deliver EE.
Educational Outreach
EECSD works to integrate environmental education into
curricula, state content standards and the mission of schools and
state agencies.
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President's
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May 2008
Next month in June, EECSD will
have the honor of hosting Bora Simmons at the Guidelines for
Excellence in Environmental Education training. I
first met Bora in October 2008 at the North American
Association for Environmental Education conference. I'd
heard her name before then, of course; you don't hang around
the EE world very long without coming across it at one time
or another. Just go to to Google Scholar and do a
search. The results list makes me feel like slacker.
Bora, despite her renown
and impressive resume, is as down to earth as any one you'd
want to meet. Like most people in the EE profession, she is
passionate about she does and is darn good at it. At
the NAAEE conference where I first met her, she facilitated
a short session on the Guidelines. The session was
interesting! And enlightening! Do I sound surprised? Being
that the Guidelines are the de facto standards/benchmarks
for EE, I was bracing for something, well, dry.
Becoming familiar with and
understanding the guidelines is more than just an academic
exercise. I can think of two looming initiatives
where a thorough understanding of the Guidelines will be
critical: No Child Left Inside and 21st Century skills.
We have a unique opportunity to embed EE into the formal SD
curriculum and expand EE instructional opportunities. This
training will help prepare us.
I invite you to consider
attending this conference. Please contact me if you
are interested, the sooner the better. We will try to get as
many as possible in, but there is an upper limit as to how
many we can accommodate.
Regards,
Anne Lewis
President
Contact:
Anne Lewis, President
c/o SD Discovery Center
805 W. Sioux
Pierre, SD 57501
Office: (605) 224-8295
Email: annelewis@sd-discovery.com
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