"Where do the Children Play?" will be shown at 6:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 2.
Get Outdoors, Michigan! Summit;
9:00 am - 4:30 pm, Thursday, November 5
AmericInn in Silver City, MI -------Flyer ------- Brochure --- Michigan No Child Left Inside Coalition
Western UP Center for Science, Math and Environmental Education hosted Family Adventure Day Nature Conservancy's Mary MacDonald Preserve near Copper Harbor from 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 17.
Get Outdoors, Michigan! Summit;
9:00 am - 4:30 pm, Thursday, November 5
AmericInn in Silver City, MI -------Flyer ------- Brochure
Upper Midwest Green Schools Conference
October 16-17 Northland College, Ashland, Wisconsin; More Information
Oct. 8-10 Annual conference of Michigan Alliance for Environmental &
Outdoor Education at UMich Dearborn campus.
Sept. 24-25 Community-based Education Workshop for K-12 Teachers & Community Partners See Flyer
Western UP Center for Science, Math and Environmental Education is hosting Family Adventure Day in the Keweenaw at five nature sanctuaries from noon to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 26
See Flyer For more information and sanctuary locations, contact Michelle Miller at 487-3341, by email at michellem@mtu.edu
Lake Superior 101: Western U.P. Science Center receives $175,000 grant (PDF) ~ August 13, 2009
September 9, at 7 pm, Center for Water and Society will sponsor a free public showing of the film, "Waterlife," in Dow 641.
Aug. 22 ~ Botanists Invite Public to Visit Keweenaw Shore Nature Sanctuary
Sept. 24-25 Community-based Education Workshop for K-12 Teachers & Community Partners…..more info coming soon
Great Lakes Maritime Transportation Teacher Institute article featured in
Lighthouse Digest Magazine
March 30, 2009, Monday,
4:00-8:30pm EDT: Western UP Science Fair: Grades 4-8,
MTU Memorial Union Ballroom Above, 2008 Video Clip
Lake Superior Youth Symposium May 14-17, 2009 Duluth Minnesota See website lakesuperioryouth.org
New Fact Sheet on Global Change
TiViTz Tournament Thursday, Thursday, April 30 Results
News - Horizons HS is the first western UP school to earn Michigan Green
School certificate PDF
April 22 - Environmental Fair 9 am - 6 pm at Keweenaw Bay Ojibwe College
in Baraga
April 22 - Wilderness First Aid Teacher Workshop 4:30-8 pm at Hancock HS
April 23 - Great Lakes in My World Teacher Workshop 8:30-3:30 pm at CCISD
Engineering is Elementary Workshop
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 ~ 8:30 am to 3:00 pm, at Copper Country ISD
Spring 2009 Engineering is Elementary Workshop
Sherlock "Homes" Energy-Saving Workshops Jan. 26, Feb. 23, March 16, 6:30-8 pm on Mondays,: "Energy Education Program Series: Activities for Families" at Portage Township Library in Houghton ---- Energy Education Website
K-12 Sustainability Education -- Sustainable Futures Institute at Michigan Technological University and WUPCenter ---- New educational website
Michigan Green Schools: WUPCenter and Michigan Tech host Michigan Green Schools website
Forest Biofuels: National Science Foundation, Michigan Tech Graduate Program in Environmental Policy, Sustainable Technologies Laboratory and Sustainable Futures Institute
Summer 2009 Teacher Courses PDF
Family Science Night Schedule for Ontonagon Jan. 27 and Sacred
Heart on Jan. 29
Dinner & Dialogue: /Going Green at Home, School, Office & Community –
What Can We Do?
/*6:00-8:30 pm, Wed., Feb. 4 in the atrium of the Michigan Tech Forestry
Building
Please register by Monday, Feb. 2. Contact: Loret Roberts 482-0331 or loret@copperisd.org
Oct. 27, Dinner & Dialogue: Partnership-Building & Social Justice Issues
in Indian Country, at Keweenaw Bay Ojibwe Community College
(KBOCC) in Baraga
Sept. 30 - Oct. 2 ~ The Great Lakes on the Brink with author Dave Dempsey hosted by Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative. View News and video (College of Engineering)
Jenn Carlson, a teacher participant in the 2005 Global Change Teacher Institute at Michigan Tech, has had an article about her teaching unit that focused on the FACE site published in the National Science
Teachers Association (NSTA)'s January 2008 issue of The Science Teacher: "Thinking Like an Ecologist" (PDF of article)
Or Download January 2008 issue of The Science Teacher FREE: http://www.nsta.org/highschool/
Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative
lakesuperiorstewardship.org
Dinner & Dialogue: /Going Green at Home, School, Office & Community –
What Can We Do?
/*6:00-8:30 pm, Wed., Feb. 4 in the atrium of the Michigan Tech Forestry
Building
Please register by Monday, Feb. 2. Contact: Loret Roberts 482-0331 or loret@copperisd.org
New Fact Sheet on Great Lakes ~ available online
The Great Lakes—At a Crossroads -- International Association for Great Lakes Research PDF File
Teaching Teachers about the Great Lakes Article from the Great Lakes Seaway Review
Linda Rulison's article on Looks Count implementation at Hancock Middle School was published in the recent issue of Green Teacher.
Linda Rulison, "Student Experts in Community Character" Green Teacher, #82, Fall 2007, 13-18
Forest Biofuels: National Science Foundation, Michigan Tech Graduate Program in Environmental Policy, Sustainable Technologies Laboratory and Sustainable Futures Institute
Family Forest Night Program Schedule
Family Science Night Schedule
Monday, Oct. 27, 5:30-8 pm, Dinner & Dialogue: Partnership-Building & Social Justice Issues
in Indian Country
, at Keweenaw Bay Ojibwe Community College
(KBOCC) in Baraga
Sept. 30 - Oct. 2 ~ The Great Lakes on the Brink with author Dave Dempsey hosted by Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative. View News and video (College of Engineering)
Oct. 2-3 ~ Shipping on the Great Lakes Teacher Workshop at Thunder Bay Marine Sanctuary in Alpena, MI.; View Brochure and application for Shipping on the Great Lakes Teacher Workshop
2008 Assembly Programs
Sept. 29-Oct. 3: Wild Woodland Assembly Program - Gr.1-12
Great Lakes Shipping Education "Chests" available to maritime museums and K-12 education centers ($150)
Family Forest Night Program --- Sep 15, 2008 Lake Linden Hubbell School Forest
Joan Chadde is calling all frog lovers to hop to the library for a hopping good “Frog-tastic” frog program on Thursday, Aug. 14, from 6:30-8 p.m. in the community room.
Tech Teaching Tool Helps Sudan Battle Cholera
Regional and State Tivitz Tournaments Results
2008 Summer Teacher Institute Schedule
2008 Western U.P. Science Fair March 4, 2008 Photos and Results
2008 Assembly Programs
Spring 2008 Assembly Tour by the Great Lakes Aquarium
Life of a Voyageur
Michigan’s Birds of Prey & Michigan’s Wild Woodlands
Michigan Forests Presentations at the Portage Lake Dist. Library
Teaching with the Outdoors Workshop in Da U.P. eh?
May 2-3, 2008
for K-12 teachers and informal educators
Family Science & Math Nights. Family Science Night attendance record set by Barkell Elementary in Hancock on Oct. 23, 2007!
Linda Rulison's article on Looks Count implementation at Hancock Middle School was published in the recent issue of Green Teacher.
Nov. 8 - Youth Engineering & Science (YES!) Expo at Ford Field in Detroit
Nov. 14 - Project Learning Tree Educator Workshop at Michigan Tech Registration deadline: Nov. 12
Teaching Teachers about the Great Lakes
Paradise Lost? Climate Change in the North Woods – Traveling Art Exhibit at Omphale Gallery in Calumet on Sept. 15-Oct. 25
Communicating Science Fall 07 course schedule, syllabus, and flyer
Great Lakes Fishery Trust
(GLFT) to involve K-12 teachers and
students in the protection and restoration of the Great Lakes. Click to read more
Whitefish Pt Lighthouse & Shipwreck Museum Teacher Workshop Thursday-Friday, October 25-26, 2007 --- Flyer PDF File and the Application PDF File
Great Lakes Coastal Cleanup
A Workshop for Shoreline Communities: Living Beside the “Big” Lake 5:30 pm-8:30 pm, Thursday, September 13 for Cities of Houghton & Hancock --- Flyer PDF File and the Agenda PDF File
7th Biennial Lake
Superior Youth Symposium ~ May 10-13, 2007
in Big Bay, Michigan!
Great Lakes Presentation Series at Portage District Library (Houghton) ~ Jan-May 2007
Monday, August 6, 7-9 pm, Great Lakes Water in Motion, (PDF) Eagle Harbor, MI
July 2, 2007 ~ The Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Weather or Not to Go, (PDF) Eagle Harbor, MI
Engineering is Elementary Workshop for Gr. 1-5 Teachers
Integrating Engineering & Technology into the Elementary Curriculum -- June 14-15, 2007
Michigan Environmental Education Curriculum Support Workshop Series ~ June 21-22, 2007
Global
Change Teacher Institute June 25-29, 2007
Forest
Ecology & Resources Teacher Institute July
15-20, 2007
Great
Lakes Maritime Transportation Teacher Institute July 30 - August 3
July 30-August 3, 2007All
of the Summer 2007 Teacher Institutes Previews -- or as PDF
LEAVE NO TRACE
OUTDOOR ETHICS COURSE !
Saturday and Sunday June 9th and 10th
in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore PDF
ECOSYSTEMS AND BIODIVERSITY FOR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS! June 11-15, 2007, in Munising PDF
Earth
Day 2007 Home Page
Space TiViTz Result May 2007
2007 Western U.P. Science Fair Website ~ Results ~ Photos
Chemical Inventory and Chemical Storage Workshop Series for Science Teachers Workshop Series Starting on Monday, February 26, 2007
Winter Ecology Teacher Iinstitute February 2-4, 2007
October
7-8 Noon-4 pm ~ Family
Outdoor Weekend in the Keweenaw. Visit four
Michigan Nature Association sanctuaries on your own. Michigan
Tech students on hand at each site to conduct fun hands-on
science activities with families. Drawing for fun prizes…kids
add their names for each sanctuary they visit.
Ecology
of Lake Superior Summer Course -- Photos and Movies See the whole travelogue of a week long research exploration
on the big lake.
Dr.
David Gallo from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute presented Extreme Deep: Exploring the Ends of the Earth
at the Rozsa Center and Water Crisis on the Blue Planet
in 135 Fisher Hall at Michigan Tech.
Teachers
attending the Great Lakes Maritime Transportation Institute
discovered the Great Lakes aren't just for recreation---ships
on the Great Lakes move 125 million tons of cargo annually,
including 90% of the iron ore used in U.S. steel production.
