From: Karen Mendelow Nelson (karenm@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 03 2002 - 11:21:44 PDT
Message-Id: <l03130302b9c23aabeebd@[192.174.3.212]> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:21:44 -0700 From: Karen Mendelow Nelson <karenm@exploratorium.edu> Subject: Grow Green Schoolyards this Autumn!
Attention teachers, school staff, parents and community members:
Enroll now to Grow Green Schoolyards this Autumn!
Many Bay Area schoolyards are asphalt wastelands. What if you could help
make them vibrant green outdoor classrooms?
The San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance (SFGSA) is proud to announce
the Growing Greener School Grounds Conference on October 25th and 26th,
co-sponsored by San Francisco Beautiful, San Francisco Planning and Urban
Research Association, and the San Francisco Unified School District.
We invite you to join us for this exciting line-up of presentations and
hands-on workshops. Get your hands dirty creating a bird and butterfly
garden, making a colorful mosaic, or planting and weaving a willow play
structure. Learn how to use the sun as a teaching resource or connect
your classroom curriculum to an outdoor learning environment.
Green schoolyards are being constructed all over the world and provide
some of the most effective, hands-on teaching tools available. These
cost-effective outdoor classrooms give schools essential learning resources
while beautifying their adjacent surroundings. They allow teachers to take
their students on field trips without ever leaving school grounds.
Students, teachers, parents and community members gain an intimate
understanding of the environment and create a space for experiential
learning as they create green schoolyards.
Conference Schedule:
October 25th, Friday (evening)
Events on Friday will introduce the multiple benefits of ecological
schoolyards through lectures and a resource fair. The conference keynote
speaker, Cam Collyer, is the National Manager of Evergreen s Learning
Grounds Program in Canada. Cam is an internationally recognized leader in
the green school grounds movement. Sharon Danks of EcoSchool Design will
give a slide presentation illustrating successful case studies of
ecological school grounds in the United States and around the world. A
networking and resource fair will provide information, contacts, and
material to use in the classroom and on school grounds.
Saturday, October 26th (all day)
On Saturday, three San Francisco public schools (Alice Fong Yu Alternative
School, San Francisco Community School and Ulloa Elementary School) will
host a wide variety of day-long workshops providing hands-on experience,
information, and resources for replicating projects in your own
neighborhood or school. Some hands-on workshops will construct or create
ecological schoolyard projects that will remain at the school site after
the conference to benefit the host schools. Other workshops will teach
participants how to connect different aspects of California curriculum
requirements to the development and stewardship of outdoor learning
environments.
Please join us at this ground-breaking event! Enroll now!! For more
information on how to register, visit www.sfgreenschools.com to download a
copy of the conference brochure and enrollment form, or send your
conference questions to sfgreenschools@hotmail.com.
Karen Mendelow Nelson
Program Manager and Science Educator
Exploratorium Teacher Institute
3601 Lyon Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
karenm@exploratorium.edu
415-561-0313
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