Appeared July 14, 2011
Published in the Lake County News-Sun
Elephants and crocodiles and orangutans! Oh my!
Former Grayslake Central High School teacher Katie Titus Larson recently returned to the U.S. after spending about two weeks in tropical Borneo for a graduate primate conservation course and encountered a variety of animals.
Download the PDF article on Larson and read the article on the web
Appeared May 11, 2011
Published in “Consider This Clermont” from the Enquirer/Community Press & Recorder, Cincinnati.com
GFP students Holly Goodpaster and Brenda Greene, as the culmination of their “Leadership in Science Inquiry” course, organized the “Earth Day Family Fest” with the Felicity-Franklin Elementary School third- and fourth-grade Science Club.
Read about the event on the web or download the article.
Appeared Winter 2011
Published in the Environmental Education Council of Ohio’s EECONEWS
Recently the Toledo Zoological Society and Toledo Public Schools (TPS) investigated techniques to increase student learning through unique experiences in an urban environment.
Download PDF article on Cook and her recent Inquiry Action Project and her GFP Master Plan, which deals in part with trying to form partnerships within the community to help her urban high school students.
Appeared Winter 2011
Published in the Environmental Education Council of Ohio’s EECONEWS
With state guidelines and strict standards to follow in school systems, do you ever wish there was a chance to teach something of value that you feel your students should be aware of?
Appeared Winter, 2010-2011
Published in the Audubon Miami Valley newsletter
My assignment was to find a spot in the Belizean Zoo and sit and listen. It sounded easy enough. I chose a spot next to Belize’s national animal, the tapir, a weird animal that looks somewhat like a cross between a giant hog and an anteater.
Appeared Autumn, 2010
Published in the Audubon Miami Valley newsletter
We did not go to Baja with the sole intent of seeing and naming as many plants and animals as possible and returning with grand lists. We went to observe, ask questions, look for answers, experience a sense of wonder and see how another community is exhibiting leadership on conserving their natural resources.
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Appeared Fall, 2010
Published in the GE Foundation Developing Futures in Education Grant report
This past summer Randall Gibson, a middle school science teacher at William H. Taft School, studied desert ecology and community conservation in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez.
