Bright spots in sustainability and nature education in the ACT

The ACT Chapter of AAEE is thrilled to announce ACTs 2020 awards for excellence in the area of environmental education.

A big thank you to members and friends who joined us at the AGM to congratulate the 2020 awardees: 

Sue Jones - ACT Environmental Educator of the Year

Samantha Burn - ACT Emerging Environmental Educator of the Year within Schooling

Lis van Papenrecht  - ACT Emerging Environmental Educator of the Year within Community

Cassandra Brown - Highly Commended ACT Emerging Environmental Educator within Schooling

Paula Banks - Highly Commended ACT Emerging Environmental Educator within Community

ACT Chapter AGM 25 November 6 PM Botanic Gardens and ZOOM

ACT Chapter AGM 2020 (AGM papers here)

Wednesday 25 November 2020 

All welcome

Date and time - 25 November 5.30, 5.45 PM gates close, 6 PM sharp AGM start - 6.50 PM AGM close, followed by ACT's 2020 Environmental Education Excellence awardees presentations and a 1-hour custom twilight tour of the gardens Indigenous Plant Use Tour.

Venue - Crosbie Morrison Building patio and Education Lawn, and via ZOOM

Australian National Botanic Gardens. 

🍷 BYO Late Spring Picnic 🍒

RSVP ESSENTIAL please to aaeeact@gmail.com

Nominations to executive are very welcome, please email to receive nomination papers

FREE - Under the Sea Environmental Theatre ZOOM - a conversation with tips and tricks with DanceKids and Take Flight Education director Sue Jones

 

21 September 4PM - Special event for SeaWeek 2020 - FREE - Under the Sea Environmental Theatre ZOOM - a conversation with tips and tricks with DanceKids and Take Flight Education director, 2020 ACT Environmental Educator of the Year, Sue Jones. 

RSVP essential - send an email to aaeeact@gmail.com

 

ENVIRONMENTAL THEATRE COMBINES SCIENCE PLUS DANCE TO BRING THE WONDERS OF THE NATURAL WORLD INTO SCHOOLS, MINDS AND HEARTS

In this excerpt from her ACT 2020 Environmental Educator of the Year nomination, we see how Sue Jones has used both her science background and her dance and choreography instruction skills to deliver environmental education curriculum and teacher professional development that bridges both learning areas.

AAEE 2020 Conference Online Forum 30 September - Registrations Open

AAEE 2020 Conference Online Forum

Wednesday, 30 September 2020 (All day)

Old Ways And New

Host a screening of 'The Story of Plastic' - brought to you by Story of Stuff

July 2020

From the ACT Chapter President 

To all those hardworking colleagues in the ACT who think Environmental Education is important (very important as the Climate Emergency becomes reality), well done you have made it to the end of the term! This has been a crazy exhausting year, some say it feels like an alternate reality ...

At a Glance - Events Coming Up

Plastic Free July; Host a screening of 'The Story of Plastic'; ACT Future Film Festival Competition; Trash Gather Educational Program - in-school workshops; 4th August ACT Green Ed Drinks - Online with the National Portrait Gallery

Plastic Free July

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