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Summertime
is conference time!
Here's a handful offerings for
the coming months:
2005
National Children & Youth
Garden Symposium: Making Connections
July 28-30, 2005 - Atlanta, GA
Emory University and Atlanta is the home base for the 13th
Annual National Children & Youth
Garden Symposium. At this annual conference sponsored by the
American Horticultural Society, you'll discover the importance of
connecting kids to plants as you enjoy the flora
and
programs
of
the Atlanta
Botanical
Garden and Wonderland
Gardens, hosts of the 2005 Symposium. Come gather the tools
to become more effective in bringing kids and plants together,
and discover
ways to
share the bountiful opportunities to teach in the garden. You'll
find full
details at the
conference Web site.
2005
AABGA Annual Conference: Rooted in Your Community
June 28-July 2, 2005 – Chicago, IL
Hosted by the Morton Arboretum, Cantigny Park, the Chicago Botanic Garden, the
Chicago Park District, and the City of Chicago, this conference explores the
power of gardens to transform people and communities and the use of technological
innovation and collaboration to improve your ability to influence visitors, sponsors
and affinity groups. For more information visit the
conference Website.
Rooted in Community National Conference
August 4- 7, 2005 - Washington D.C.
This conference is sponsored by Rooted in Community, a national
grassroots network that empowers young people to take leadership
in their own communities committed
to building healthy communities through urban and rural agriculture, related
environmental justice, community gardening, and food security work. The national
conference is an opportunity for young people from around the country to meet
each, share skills, support each other, have fun, and collaborate. For more
information contact Zoe Sylvester
at 11 N. Goodman St., Rochester, NY 20009 or by email at ks004k@mail.rochester.edu.
Community Food
Security Coalition's Annual Meeting
October 5-9 -
Atlanta, GA
Once again, Building Local Agricultural Systems Today (BLAST) will
be arranging a youth delegation to the Community Food Security Coalition's
Annual Meeting. Because the conference falls
so close to the beginning of the school year, the application process
will be starting soon.
For more info about the conference, go to the Community
Food Security Coalition Web site.
If you are interested, please
notify BLAST via e-mail.
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Journey North: Engage Students in Tracking Seasons, Animal Migrations
Teachers and students in K-12 classrooms are invited to participate this fall
in Journey North’s global studies of wildlife migration and seasonal change.
One of the nation’s premier Internet-based “citizen science” projects,
Journey North is a free program that enables students in 11,000 schools to track
the seasons on a real-time basis. Students follow the migration patterns of monarch
butterflies, bald eagles, whooping cranes, and other animals; the budding of
plants, changing sunlight, and other natural events. Students share their own
field observations with classmates across North America and analyze data from
other classroom and professional scientists.
Each Journey North study features many entry points to meet your unique teaching
needs: standards-based lessons and challenges, reading and writing connections,
stunning photos and video clips, weekly migration updates, interactive maps,
connections with field scientists, and compelling migration “stories.” The
studies help students conduct local observations and inquiries and fit them into
a global context.
Thanks to a grant from Annenberg/CPB, Journey North Web site access and participation
is free. Visit the
Journey North Website for details. (Click
here for information on Journey
North’s
custom professional development workshops).
Organic
School Garden Awards
Teams of students and teachers submit an essay and poster that express
how their school garden improves students' health and the health
of the Earth. Three winning schools will receive cash prizes of
$250, $500, and $1,000. The deadline for submissions is October 31,
2005. To learn more about contest details, visit the Rodale
Institute's KidsRegen.org Web site.
Hot
Horticultural Resources from NGA
Regional
Reports
NGA's biweekly Regional Reports are one of our most popular features, and for
good reason! Twice a month our 12 horticultural columnists offer recommendations
for gardeners in their area. You can read them at the NGA Web site, or subscribe
for the bimonthly e-newsletter version. Read
the current reports.
