Earth Expeditions News

Earth Expeditioner Miriam Westervelt featured in Cheetah Conservation Fund newsletter

connie — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:06:12 +0000

Appeared August, 2010
Published in “Notes from the Field,” CCF, Namibia

In August, the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) hosted a meeting of the minds from two different continents and two different hemispheres. Approximately 40 members of the Namibian Environmental Educators Network (NEEN) spent the afternoon exchanging ideas with a group of American teachers from the Miami University’s (Ohio, USA) Earth Expeditions. For the seventh year, the Earth Expeditions group spent a week at C CF as part of their learner-centred training.

Earth Expeditions' Miriam Westervelt and Windhoek HS Biology teacher Liina Nantin establishing new partnerships as their students will be communicating with each other about water conservation this fall.

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Williams joins expedition to Baja Peninsula

connie — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:19:52 +0000

Published in the Dyersburg State Gazette

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

connie — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:19:46 +0000

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

connie — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:54:57 +0000

By Elisabeth Martin, the Southtown Star

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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New Lexington woman takes love of conservation one step further

connie — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:17:47 +0000

A lot can be learned in 10 days the shores of the Sea of Cortez.

During her recent trip, New Lexington resident Joanne McGonagle saw whales, dolphins and gardens and fruit trees that grew in the desert. She also met a holistic healer.

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First-grade teacher explores exotic Baja for summer school

connie — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:13:24 +0000

Elda Elementary first-grade teacher Laura Clawson will bring a different world of experience to her classroom this fall.

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Maasai Music Project Departs for Kenya!

connie — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:52:21 +0000

The Maasai Music Project (MMP), creation of GFP student Daniel Grigson and students in the Environmental Club (E-Club) of Westlake City Schools, Cleveland, Ohio is taking its music, message and mission to Kenya as part of Daniel’s 2010 Earth Expeditions Advanced Field Course. The project, which was the recipient of the 2009 Sea World Environmental Excellence Award, operates on the belief that, “science, art, and education are not separate, isolated disciplines, but instead they are deeply interconnected. And, we believe that kids’ have a voice, and they should be heard…. Unlike many service projects in Africa, MMP is not about charity, social work, or sightseeing. There will be no donor/recipient relationship. For the first time ever, kids from the US will be working with kids in Africa to unite their voices, to create original art and music together.”

Visit the Maasai Music Project on the web.
Download the PDF article on Grigson and MMP’s upcoming trip to Kenya

Listen to their music:

Wild Research featured on WVXU’s Cincinnati Edition – Field Notes

connie — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:50:56 +0000

Thane Maynard, CEO of the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, interviews Laura and Sam Wells regarding their interactive experiences with the “Wild Pack” and Wild Research stations at the Zoo, including interactive stations at the leaf-cutter ant and gorilla exhibits and more!

Wild Research is designed to deepen public engagement in science and conservation at zoos, aquariums, and similar learning environments nationwide. Conducted with the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden and a consortium of partner zoos and aquariums, Wild Research involves families directly in research and conservation action through Wild Research stations, participatory learning media, and education programs.

Hear Thane Maynard’s interview with Sam and Laura Wells

Class News: Miamians In Baja ‘09

connie — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:43:50 +0000

Miami University’s alumni publication, The Miamian, recently included the participation of five university alumni, Roberta Phillips ‘80, Rich Lewis ‘91, Georgia O’Hara ‘97, Jill Korach ‘00, and Joe Beringer ‘06, in the 2009 Field Expeditions course, Baja: Master’s Field Methods in its “Class News.” The group is shown standing in front of a bluewhale skeleton at the Vermillion Sea Field Station in Bahía de Los Ángeles, Baja California.

“What I did on my summer vacation”

connie — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:50:55 +0000

Angie Kuhn and Liz Jones, middle school teachers at St. Paul School in Westerville, Ohio, probably are going to be able to top their students this year when it comes to responding to the time-worn writing prompt, “What I did on my summer vacation.”

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