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FINAL SPRING 04 Newsletter The Newsletter of the Environmental Education Association of New Mexico E C O N N E C T I O N S E Vol. 12, No. 1 Spring 2004 CONTENTS Students Exercise their 2. EEANM News Minds at the 3. Earth Day & Playa Program 4. Teacher Opportunities & Workshops Children’s Water Festival Contributed by Susan Gorman 5. Project WET Return of the River Otter? 6. Environmental Academy & WOW! “Let’s look in the tray 8. Cottonwood Gulch Foundation with the rocks!” 10. Teaching Thinking: Metacognition “OK, and then let’s see 11. Materials & Opportunities who lives in the 12. Audubon New Mexico algae.” 13. Materials & Opportunities 14. Environmental Awards Fourth graders enjoyed 15. EE Connected the exhilaration of 16. Membership Application discovery as they met water bugs up close. They found stoneflies ISSUE SPONSORS under the rocks and other aquatic bugs sheltering in the algae. Next door, students filled cups from a jug of water representing our water supply to demonstrate that water is shared among cities and towns, nature, farmers, downstream users and (see Water Festival page 7) RANDALL DAVEY AUDUBON CENTER Multi Facilitator Wrap Up Contributed by Carolyn Valtos On February 6 and 7 of this year, EEANM, with the support of Project WET, Project Learning Tree, Project Wild, the Leopold Education Project, and several local curricula including the Bosque Nature SW Education Guide, sponsored the second (of three) Multi-Facilitator Training Workshop in Las Cruces, New Mexico at the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum. These workshops hope to update facilitators and train new facilitators by increasing knowledge, awareness and understanding about the environment. For this particular training, participants ranged (see Multi Facilitator page 9) EEANM— 1 EE-CONNECTIONS—SPRING 04 EEANMEEANM NEWSNEWS Have you experienced a great EE class, Eco-Ed the Listserv for workshop, or program? Have you read an New Mexico Environmental Educators insightful EE article, book, or publication? If you haven’t signed on to the eco-ed listserv, you are Please share your experience or great find missing a great information link on what’s up in New with other EE Connections readers by Mexico Environmental Education. Signing up is easy; just submitting to upcoming issues… follow the directions below. The following is an example of how you would subscribe if your email address was [email protected] Summer Newsletter 1. Convert your email address as follows: Deadline is MayMay 20 [email protected] becomes leo=aldo.org The EE Connections Summer Issue will be 2. Add your converted email address to this phrase: distributed in June 2004. 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Do not press “Reply” or your message will go to email Amy or call (505) 744- the entire listserv. 5998 or 744-5707. EEANM BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS BOARD MEMBERS AT-LARGE Stephanie Dobbie Mary Dwyer Dana Vackar-Strang Donna Thatcher President Secretary 827-3809 (w) Santa Fe Farmington 256-4343 (h) Albuquerque 720-5520 (w) Albuquerque [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Cassie Benson Cheri Vogel Richard Becker, PhD. Deb Thrall, PhD. Albuquerque 827-4272 (w) Santa Fe Past President Treasurer [email protected] [email protected] 277-0718 (w) Albuquerque 255-7156 (h) Albuquerque [email protected] [email protected] Peg Sorensen All phone numbers are 234-5983 (w) Carlsbad area code (505) unless Kevin Holladay Amy Claesson [email protected] otherwise noted. President Elect Newsletter Editor 476-8095 (w) Santa Fe 744-5998 (w) Elephant Butte Have a message for the Board? On line Forums are [email protected] [email protected] available: eeanm.org/PHPBB2/index.php EEANM— 2 EE-CONNECTIONS—SPRING 04 Teacher Wins Grant for Playa Program PEEC Invites Community to Participate Terry Pipkin, a 6th-grade teacher at Highland Elementary in Clovis, New Mexico, recently received a $1,000 grant from Public Service of New Mexico to conduct in-the-field in Earth Day playa education. Pipkin's students will study the nearby The Pajarito Environmental Education Green Acres playa to understand the wetland's value for Center is once again organizing Earth Day people and wildlife, and investigate the overall "health" of events in Los Alamos. This year's activities the playa. will be held from April 17 through April 25, with an Earth Day celebration on April 24. "My students PEEC, a nonprofit volunteer organization will someday be in dedicated to establishing a nature education charge of my center in Los Alamos, has organized Earth community and I Day events for the past several years. This will be relying on year's theme, Water for Life, is the same as them to be stewards the international Earth Day theme. of this environment," Pipkin said. "My Even though recent snows have brought job is to show them some needed relief to the drought-starved that the world landscape of the Pajarito Plateau, water is a exists right outside subject that will continue to make headlines. that door. Their job Albuquerque and Santa Fe routinely impose is to step out and water restrictions, and PEEC's board would like to see more Los Alamos residents practice water conservation. "Like many northern ciation, joy and responsibility." Pipkin was assisted in New Mexicans, I have been enjoying a small preparing the project proposal by Tish McDaniel of return to winter that the February storms have Phalarope Consulting, who receives support from New provided," said PEEC Vice President Randall Mexico's state capacity grant awarded by the Playa Lakes Ryti. "However, the brown or dead trees seem Joint Venture (PLJV). Pipkin has arranged for a variety of to stand out even more upon a fresh blanket of science experts to help teach her students, including David snow. Thus, the snow helps to emphasize Haukos, a USFWS biologist at Texas Tech University, who some of the changes in our landscape from is a longtime PLJV partner and member of the Joint drought or fire and brings directly home the Venture's biological planning teams. meaning of water for life. Other teachers seeking educational materials on playas "Hopefully, this visual reminder will need only to look on the PLJV web site for a wealth of encourage us to be better educated on the resources. The PLJV's Educator Resource Guide is a detailed choices we have to improve the quality and index of books, activity guides, magazine articles, videos, quantity of water in our area," Ryti said. "One and field programs focused on playas, associated uplands and of PEEC's missions is to celebrate the earth, wildlife. The Guide has recently been updated with several trees, and skies that make Los Alamos such a new sources, including a playa activity guide, video on glorious place to live," said board member Mountain Plovers, and pocket guides to prairie birds and Becky Shankland. "Most of the time we just raptors. If you have additional educational resources to take it for granted, though fire and drought include in the Guide, contact Debbie Slobe, Communications have made us more aware of what we could Team Leader, Playa Lakes Joint Venture, 103 E. Simpson lose. Earth Day is the day to acknowledge our Lafayette, CO 80026. She can also be reached at (303) 926- gratitude for this (see Earth Day page 14) 0777 or [email protected]. Learn more about PLJV at http://www.pljv.org EEANM— 3 EE-CONNECTIONS—SPRING 04 SPONSOR New Mexico Department of Game & Fish Teacher Enhancement Professional Opportunity Development June 17-20, 2004 Opportunity Advanced Project WILD July 16-18, 2004 Natural History Workshop Trout, Mountains and Forest Literacy-Science-Math Advanced Project WILD The cool, conifer forests of New Mexico invite you to join us for 2 ½ days of exploring high altitude riverine systems. Butterflies & Rocky Mountain One focus will include the native cold Forest Ecosystems water trout, the Rio Grande Cutthroat. The Conservation Education Section of the NM Department Treat yourself and family to a weekend of experiential of Game and Fish will host both traditional and non- learning and discovery in northern New Mexico! Learn traditional educators at a location in northern New how to bring butterflies and their habitat into the Mexico for this summer’s Trout, Mountains and classroom. NM State Parks and Dept. of Game and Forests Natural History Workshop. Fish are teaming up to bring you an exciting weekend Beginning Thursday evening and concluding of fun and learning. This workshop will take place at Sunday mid-day, we will explore watersheds, riparian Heron Lake State Park from Friday evening to Sunday wildlife and the Montane ecosystem of northern NM.
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