July 15th, 2011
Appeared January 21, 2011
Published online on the Park County School District #6 website
Ask any of the several hundred participants in the January 8, 2011 World Community Conference at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden what inspires them. Likely you’ll receive several hundred different answers – yet they all have something in common.

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July 15th, 2011
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.

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May 17th, 2011
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.

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April 7th, 2011
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.

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April 7th, 2011
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?

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February 10th, 2011
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.

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January 19th, 2011
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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