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.
Broadcast August 16, 2010
Red River Radio, Shreveport/Bossier City, Louisiana
First year GFP student Amy Fultz, who works as Chimp Haven’s Behavioral Manager and is a resident of Bossier City, Louisiana, was interviewed by Red River Radio personality Kate Archer Kent about her summer 2010 Earth Expedition to Belize.
Listen to the interview and read an article on Fultz’s experience on the web.
Appeared July 10, 2010
Published in the Lakewood News, Clarksville, Michigan
Clarksville fourth grade teacher Karin Raymond has been selected to join a global master’s degree program that began this summer with studying desert and marine ecosystems on the Baja Peninsula.
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.
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….
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.
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.
