Upcoming events

Friday, Jan. 19, 2007: FREE Wetlands curriculum workshop for high school teachers

Wednesday, March 14-17, 2007 CABE (California Association for Bilingual Education) 32nd annual conference, Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach

Friday, May 25, 2007
Water Wizard Festival Friends of Guadalupe River Park and Gardens

CABE California Bilingual Education

Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society

The Center for New Dreams

Youth Service America

NEA Foundation grants

Santa Clara Valley Water District’s Water Awareness Program
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Just to enjoy – this is a truly beautiful and unusual view of planet earth:     http://home.att.net/~hideaway_fun/442/planet.htm

Events
Dec. 8, 2006: San José Go Green Mini-grants.
Mini-grants, ranging from $500 to $2,000, are intended to foster school-wide and in-classroom recycling and other environmental actions and environmental education in San José K-12 public and private schools.  Applications are now being accepted for these mini-grants.  Mini-grants are due Dec. 8 postmarked or e-mailed by 5 p.m.  Funding will be awarded Jan. 25, 2007.

For more information, contact Deb Bogart at 408-975-2533, or e-mail: 2Deb.bogart@sanjoseca.gov

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Jan. 19, 2007: FREE wetlands curriculum workshop for high school teachers.
The California Coastal Commission is hosting a FREE teacher workshop based on the new Our Wetlands, Our World curriculum in Newport Beach, CA. This high school curriculum is focused on the natural history of and human impact on wetlands. Each activity addresses California’s high school science content, English-language arts, mathematics, and history/social science standards. 

Jan. 19, 2007, 8:30am-4:00pm
To register for the workshop or request a free copy of Our Wetlands, Our World, contact:
Matt Yurko, Project Coordinator Community-Based Restoration and Education Program at (949) 640-0286 or e-mail at: myurko@coastal.ca.gov

Jan. 31, 2007: California Coastal Commission’s Coastal Art and Poetry Contest 
All California students from kindergarten to 12th grade are invited to participate.  For entry forms and more information: http://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/poster/poster.html

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Feb. 15, 2007: River of Words International Poetry and Art Contest. 
Every year, River of Words conducts a free international poetry and art contest for youth on the theme of watersheds. The contest is designed to help youth explore the natural and cultural history of the place they live, and to express, through poetry and art, what they discover.

The contest is open to any child in the world, from 5-19 years of age.  Entries are due Feb. 15, 2007.  For more information, visit www.riverofwords.org/contest/index.html

Good to Know
Adopt-A-Watershed (AAW) is discontinuing its award-winning, 18-unit curriculum!  Units with support kits and materials are currently being sold as bundled packages on eBay, all bids start at $9.99! This curriculum integrates standards-based subject matter while rooting learning in hands-on watershed context. Curriculum and kits will be on sale through December 15th - after which time they will no longer be offered. Please contact AAW at 530-628-5334 or email info@earthwater.org  for more information! 

City of San Jose’s Environmental Services provides resources including curriculum materials, teacher training, field trips and presentations, and grants and funding to teachers in the South Bay.  To find out what they have to offer: http://www.sanjoseca.gov/esd/schools/ 

Would you like to help NASA inspire kids? Ames Exploration Encounter (AEE) would appreciate all the volunteers who are willing to work with NASA Education and our local school kids.  For more information, visit http://encounter.arc.nasa.gov

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California Coastal Commission’s Public Education Program works to increase public knowledge of coastal and marine resources and to engage the public in coastal protection and restoration activities.  It offers a variety of conservation, education and community involvement programs. There is bound to be a program just right for you and your students, so get involved.  Check out www.coastal.ca.gov

Interested in water quality education?  The California Water Boards proudly present,
The Water Quality Service Learning Program and Water Quality Detectives After School Program.  These student-centered investigations raises student’s awareness of polluted runoff and how it impacts them, local waterways and the environment.  To find out more about these programs, visit www.waterlessons.org

The NOAA Ocean Exploration program strives to engage broad audiences to enhance America’s environmental literacy through the excitement of ocean discovery. Increasing this literacy requires high-quality, effective collaborations between ocean explorers and America’s teachers. NOAA is forming such collaborations to reach out in new ways to the public to improve the literacy of learners with respect to ocean issues.  To learn more about NOAA visit www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/welcome.html

My Wonderful World is a National Geographic-led campaign to increase geographic literacy in schools, at home, and in the community. To learn more about geography, what it is and why it matters, explore the beautiful My Wonderful World Web site at http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/ where you will find games, blogs and articles written for students, teachers and parents.

For more information about Water District programs visit our website at www.valleywater.org . 

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