Environmental Awareness Week April 2007
Monday, April 23 rd
- Beaver Puppet Show: Grades K/1
- Butterfly Puppet Show: Grades 2/3 (Puppeteers: Jane Brammer, Ann Hough, Flo Abbott, Katherine Brown)
- Nature Writing with Jen Kretser: Grades 5, 6, 12
- Art with recycled materials: All grades, Monday-Friday (Teacher: Mrs. McFaddin)
Tuesday, April 24 th
- Adirondack Museum Outreach Programs
- (Instructor Christine Campeau)
- Adirondack Wildlife: K-4
- Logging in the Adirondacks: Grades 5/6
- Newcomb VIC programs (Instructors Rhynda McCray and Ellen Rathbone)
- Birds of Prey: Grades 2, 5, 7, 10
- Bats: Grades 1, 5, 6
Wednesday, April 25 th
- Political cartooning with Mark Wilson
- Humanities, Government and Journalism
- Searching for Macro-invertebrates in the Beaver Pond: Grades 5, 6, 9 (Instructors Ann Lennox-Barlow and Katie Lenahan)
- Storytelling with Karen Glass: Open to everyone
Thursday, April 26 th
- Drumming @ Lake Placid Center for the Arts: Grades 3-6
- SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry Programs (Instructors Paul Hai and Sarah Boggia)
- Logging the Adirondacks with Buck Teeth and Flat Tails: Natural History of Beaver: Grades 3,4,7
- Getting to Know You: Learning Nature Observation Skills: Grades 5/6
- Burning the Candle at Both Ends: Ecological Pressures on Migratory Birds of the Adirondacks: Spanish 3
- Conservation at the Edge of the World: Puffin Restoration in Coastal Maine: Bio/ Math B
- Global Position System (GPS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS):
- Math-based Technologies Informing Science and Public Policy: Pre-calculus/Earth Science
Friday, April 27 th
- Pick up garbage: Grades 6-12
- Release salmon: Grade 7
- Olympic Tree and Land Management-tree planting: K-1
- PSC Student for Env. Action- seed planting: K
- PSC Wildlife Society - bird feeders: Grade 2
- All-school picnic with Smokey Bear and Paul Smith’s students as guests
- PSC Wildlife Society will have info. on bears available during lunch.
- Team activities with Paul Smith’s College students: Grades K-10
- Renewable Energy Tour (Charlie Segard): Grades 11/12
- Concert with Jamie Savage and Celia Evans. Warm-up act by the Stan Oliva Band performing Stan’s new global climate change song entitled “What the Chances Are”.
