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

Link to Plastic Free July. Join millions of people reducing their plastic waste.

Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities. Will you be part of Plastic Free July by choosing to refuse single-use plastics?

Earth System Education - Are We There Yet?

Paul Anderson from Bozeman Science - Planetary Boundaries links Earth Science with Sustainability through Earth System Science.
Video 1 in the 'AP Environmental Science' series at Paul Andersen's Bozeman Science.

Link to Earth System Education review post. If you teach senior secondary Earth and Environmental Science or Geography and haven't heard of Planetary Boundaries and Earth System Science as an approach to sustainability then you may be in for a pleasant surprise. 

There's No Such Place as Away, There's No Such Place as Away ...

And where is this place they call 'Away'? 

Link to purchase ‘There is No Such Place as Away’ (credit card or PayPal) 16 pp Colour PDF from AAEE ($12). Or email admin@aaee.org.au Extensive teaching notes and free ongoing updates and support through publication authors FoodWeb Education.  ‘There is No Such Place as Away’ provides an introduction and springboard for further investigation into the scientific concept of ‘matter’ and the ecological patterns and principles of matter cycles on Earth. When it gets down to it, matter is the ‘stuff’ of our lives, the food we eat, the air we breathe, the clothes we wear, the houses we live in ...