Updating Member Directory 2021

Dear Members

Its that time of year to make sure your page in the ACT Environmental Network Directory  is up to date

Please review your page here and send through the updates as a word document. Please attach any photos, image and logos and send to ACT chapter secretary Kate at aaeeact@gmail.com  

Biodiversity Professional Development - Wicking Beds

 

Term 2 is the time to get all your biodiversity plans in place ready for spring! 

Together with Actsmart Schools, Caroline Chisholm School are hosting a teacher and community networking session on June 16 2021. 

Come meet the Caroline Chisholm School team, check out all the amazing work we are doing and meet some of the people who are helping us along the way. 

During the session you will hear from the Actsmart Households and Schools teams and learn how to build a wicking bed! 

Places are limited – register here: https://bit.ly/ActsmartSchoolsNetworking16June

Water in the ACT Professional Learning

End of Term One, AAEE ACT Chapter hosted water educators from across the ACT with Icon Water for a special tour of the Cotter Dam ending in a professional networking session. During this event we shared our collective expertise, knowledge, and current programs on all things water.

It was fabulous to be joined by members and associates of the ACT chapter for the Australian Association for Environmental Education. Along with educators in water and biodiversity represented by ACT Government Actsmart schools programs, H2OK Healthy waterways program, No waste ACT, ACT Waterwatch Coordinators and Catchment groups, Landcare ACT, the Australian Botanic Gardens, Jerrabomberra Wetlands, passionate STEM teachers, Nature ART Lab and Dance Kids.

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.