Environmental Education workshop helps teachers learn and teach

2007-09-26 / Local News

Comet staff report

Where does your trash go after you set it on the curb? Where do pests hang out in your school? How do birds hunt?

Enviro-to-Go, an environmental education and health workshop for educators, will provide teachers and administrators with answers to these questions, environmental curriculum and low-cost hands-on activities for their schools.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) event will be Oct. 11 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Eagle Creek Park Earth Discovery Center.Admission and parking are free, but reservations are required.

Workshops include: sessions on IDEM's new curriculum Indiana's Environment and You; curricula offered by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources; IDEM's non-point source water pollution; Garbage Scene Investigation (GSI) Project; hazardous waste inventories for schools; potential health triggers in schools; using birds of prey in classrooms, and finding the pests (non-human type) in school buildings and eliminating them using integrated pest management practices.

Contact Jennifer Woolson- Helrigel at (317) 233-5433 or e-mail her at jwoolson@ idem.IN.gov to register.

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