Earth Expeditions: 2007 News<title> <link href="../styles/news.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <link href="../../style/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="header"> <div id="logoid-sub"><a href="../index.php"><img src="../../images/logotrans.gif" alt="" border=1></a ></div> </div>  <div id="sidebar"><img src="../../images/zoo_on_top.gif" alt="" width="170" height="61" /> <ul> <li><a href="../../zoo_expeditions/plants/index.php">Plants & People</a></li> <li> <hr /> </li> <li><a href="../../zoo_expeditions/primates/index.php">Primate Behavior & Conservation</a></li> <li> <hr /> </li> <li><a href="../../zoo_expeditions/habitats/index.php">Habitats, Adaptations, & Evolution</a></li> </ul> <p><a href="../../eeupdates/subscribe.php"><img src="../../images/signup_for_eeupdates.gif" alt="Sign up for EE-updates" width="170" border="0" height="26" /></a><br /> <img src="../../images/field_in_middle.gif" alt="" width="170" height="56" /></p> <ul> <li><a href="../../field_expeditions/mongolia/index.php">Mongolia</a></li> <li> <hr /> </li> <li><a href="../../field_expeditions/trinidad/index.php">Trinidad</a></li> <li> <hr /> </li> <li><a href="../../field_expeditions/kenya/index.php">Kenya</a></li> <li> <hr /> </li> <li><a href="../../field_expeditions/thailand/index.php">Thailand</a></li> <li> <hr /> </li> <li><a href="../../field_expeditions/belize/index.php">Belize</a></li> <li> <hr /> </li> <li><a href="../../field_expeditions/namibia/index.php">Namibia</a></li> <li> <hr /> </li> <li><a href="../../field_expeditions/costa_rica/index.php">Costa Rica</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="logos"><img src="../../images/logos.gif" alt="" /></div><div id="content"><p><meta http-equiv="content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <a class="tempmenu" href="../../aboutus/index.php">About</a> <a class="tempmenu" href="../../admissions/index.php">Admissions</a> <a class="tempmenu" href="../../faculty/index.php">Faculty</a> <a class="tempmenu" href="../2008/index.php">News</a> <a class="tempmenu" href="../../faqs/index.php">FAQs</a> <a href="../../application/index.php" class="tempmenu style1 c1">Apply</a> <a class="tempmenu" href="../../EEcards/index.php?act=browse_cat">Send EE-card</a></p><p> <h2>2007 Earth Expeditions News</h2> <h3>Local teacher chosen for expedition to Thailand</h3> <p>Tuesday, June 19, 2007<br/> </p><p>Grand Canyon middle school science teacher Jesse Smith will travel to Thailand this summer to study its ecological and cultural environments as part of Miami University's Earth Expeditions program.</p><p>The program, established by Miami University's Project Dragonfly and the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, recognizes outstanding educators throughout the country and provides them with research experiences at conservation hotspots around the world.</p><p>This month, Smith travels to Thailand with a group of U.S. educators and Miami and Zoo instructors to conduct field research projects investigating tropical ecology; exploring the relationship of Buddhism to the environment and education; and studying community-based conservation.</p><p>While in-country, the group will also join Thai educators to begin long-term collaborative projects linking classrooms in both countries. When Smith and the Thai educators return to their home institutions, their work will continue on Dragonfly's Web platform, created specifically for educator collaboration.</p><p>Educators on some expeditions will be joined by professionals from zoos across the United States as part of Miami and the Cincinnati Zoo's new collaboration, Wild Research.</p><p>The Earth Expeditions program provides graduate credit to classroom teachers and educators from zoos, museums and other informal settings through direct study experience at research sites in Africa, Asia, Central and South America and the Caribbean.</p><p>The project's mission is to build an alliance of educators with firsthand knowledge of inquiry-driven, community-based learning for the benefit of ecological communities, student achievement, and global understanding.</p><p>"We need to go beyond textbooks and engage educators and students in the real world," said Earth Expeditions Co-Director Dr. Chris Myers, director of Project Dragonfly and Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University, Oxford. "We envision every educator as an ambassador who creates as well as transmits knowledge, who promotes needed dialogue at all levels of society, and who inspires their students to do the same."</p><p>"Reading about the rainforest is one thing," said Dave Jenike, Co-Director of Earth Expeditions and Vice President of Education and Facilities at the Cincinnati Zoo. "But it can be transformational for students to hear about the rainforest from their own teacher who's experienced it firsthand.</p><p>"Through Earth Expeditions, teachers become the conduit for their students to engage more deeply in their studies, for their schools to become centers of investigation, and for all to advance a powerful conservation ethic to help preserve our natural world."</p><p>All Earth Expeditions participants earn tuition-free graduate credit from Miami University. The Earth Expeditions program is supported by funding from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. </p><p><strong>Source:</strong> http://www.grandcanyonnews.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=6616&SectionID=10&SubSectionID=&S=1</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></div>  <div id="footer"> <p><a href="mailto:Put-Your-Friend's-Email-Address-Here?subject=Earth%20Expeditions&body=I%20thought%20you%20might%20like%20to%20hear%20about%20http://earthexpeditions.org!">Email a friend about Earth Expeditions!</a></p> <p><script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[  //]]> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></p> <p>© 2008 <a href="../../Library/index.php">Earth Expeditions</a> | <a href="http://www.miami.muohio.edu/documents_and_policies/privacy_statement/">Privacy Statement</a></p> </div>  <script type="text/javascript" defer="defer" src="http://server1.opentracker.net/?site=www.earthexpeditions.org"> </script>  <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ _uacct = "UA-2370472-3"; urchinTracker(); //]]> </script></body> </html>