Archive for August, 2010

Williams joins expedition to Baja Peninsula

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Appeared August 18, 2010
Published in the State Gazette, Dyersburg, Tennessee

Local educator Bart Williams was recently included in an expedition to the Baja Peninsula, allowing him to participat in activities that will no doubt make his intermediate school students green with jealousy.  While in Mexico as part of an Earth Expeditions program, Williams swam lazily next to a whale shark in the Sea of Cortez, hunted for scorpions in the desert night, slept under the stars, studied the ecology of inter-tidal communities….

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Teacher participates in research in Kenya

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

By Liz Carey, the Anderson Independent Mail

For 10 days, Riverside Middle School teacher Justin Ballenger lived in the wilds of Kenya.  As part of Earth Expeditions’ Field Expedition program, Ballenger was immersed in the climate and culture of Kenya to learn about conservation in a place where wildlife and the community have come to live together.

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Eisenhower teacher combs the world for her students’ lessons

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Appeared August 19, 2010
Published in the Southtown Star, Frankfort, Illinois

As Jeannette Navarro’s students come back to school today, she’ll be waiting for them with vials of plankton, green zebra mussel samples and a video she shot of an erupting volcano.

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