Nature Bowl Family Challenge
Through May 14, 2021
Virtual Earth Week Celebration
Online, Inland Empire
April 18-24, 2021
Presented by Inland Empire Utilities Agency and the City of Chino
Fee: No
Contact: Stephanie Chancellor
schancellor@ieua.org
Visit
website for details.
Online
April 19, 2021
11:00am
Presented by National Environmental Education Foundation
Fee: No
Looking for a way to engage students in environmental education that works equally well in a virtual or in-person format? NEEF will teach educators about citizen science through a webinar co-hosted with SciStarter, an online citizen science hub. The webinar will walk viewers through the process of creating, developing, and implementing a citizen science project. Visit
website for details.
Online
April 21, 2021
10:00-11:00am
Presented by National Environmental Education Foundation
Fee: No
NEEF will host a one-hour live webinar with the Frost Museum of Science to discuss strategies for implementing Greening STEM in a formal classroom setting. The educators at Frost recently partnered with NEEF to introduce several Greening STEM activities to Miami-Dade County middle school STEM teachers during a professional development workshop. The Frost team will provide an overview of three biodiversity resources that were developed for implementation in virtual classrooms, and viewers will have instant access to all three.
Visit
website for details.
Online for Alameda County
April 22 & 29, 2021
3:30-5:30pm
Presented by Alameda County Water District; Reclamation; Water Education Foundation
Fee: No
Contact: Renee W. Gonzales
renee.w.gonzales@acwd.com
Visit
website for details.
Online
April 27, 2021
10-11am
Presented by Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation and School Garden Support Org Network
Fee: No
Contact:
tristana@sgsonetwork.org
Join hundreds of schools on April 27 for the first-ever virtual school garden tour and educational
broadcast event. Think virtual school assembly...by kids for kids! This event will make stops at
seven school gardens from Hawaii to D.C. and connect educators and students across the country to
celebrate the power of school gardens! This event can be viewed as a 45-minute live-stream or accessed
afterwards as separate lesson videos, each lasting about 3-5 minutes. Register at
growingschoolgardens.org.
Online for SF Bay Area
April 28, 2021
3:30pm-4:30pm
Presented by The Content, Literacy, Inquiry, and Citizenship Project, Marin County Office of Education
Fee: No
Contact: (415) 499-5870
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website for details.
Online
April 28, 2021
3:00pm
Presented by California Department of Education
Fee: No
Visit
website for details.
Online
April 29, 2021
3:30pm-5pm
Presented by AEOE
Fee: $15 AEOE members/$20 General Public
Contact
aeoe@aeoe.org
Are you interested in understanding your audiences' relationships with
nature? Do you need to demonstrate to funders that your programs increase
learners' connection to nature? Join us for a 2-hour workshop diving into
the Practitioner's Guide to Assessing Connection to Nature, a new
guidebook for helping you measure this elusive concept with young children,
teenagers, or adults. This interactive workshop will enable participants
to become familiar with the Guide, explore the tools, and discuss which of
the 11 assessment tools will be appropriate for their programs.
Facilitators: Bruce Young is the Affiliate Network Coordinator at North
American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE). Based in
Charlottesville, Virginia, Bruce is also an At-large Director for the
Virginia Association for Environmental Education. Chis Parsons is based
in Monterey California, and is the Principal/Owner and Manager of Word
Craft, which specializes in interpreting and communicating science and
environmental issues to the public. Chris has a strong background in
evaluation, and has worked with countless clients over the years to
develop evaluative approaches to inform, improve and innovate.
Register at
www.aeoe.org/events
Online for Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
April 29, 2021
4-5pm
Presented by Community Resources for Science and KIDS for the BAY
Fee: No
KIDS for the BAY Educators will showcase the free Blue Watershed Classrooms program,
which includes five interactive lessons that support classroom teachers in developing
a watershed-friendly, zero-waste classroom with their students year after year. Visit
website to register.
Online
May 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2021
10-10:30am
Presented by Nimbus Fish Hatchery
Fee: No
Stories! Dancing! Pictures! Learning!
Visit
website to register for any of the dates.
Online
May 7, 2021
Presented by North American Association for Environmental Education
Visit
website for details.
Online
May 7, 2021
Presented by National Marine Educators Association
Fee to attend: $5 plus NMEA Student membership fee
Apply:
website
Online
May 7, 2021
10-10:45am
Presented by Nimbus Fish Hatchery
Fee: No
Learn about migrating birds that use the Pacific Flyway andhow they move across the world.
Visit
website to register.
Online for Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
May 8, 2021
10-11:30am
Presented by Community Resources for Science, Chabot Space & Science Center, StopWaste
Fee: No
Join our Climate Action League and help solve the climate crisis through global WORMing!
Your facilitation team will demonstrate science concepts and student engagement strategies
in a fun and playful way. We will share hands-on and digital activities as well as
demonstrate role play and humor as engagement tools for communicating the topics of
climate science, composting, and gardening. You’ll come away from the workshop with a
better understanding for how waste diversion and composting are great ways to help solve
climate change as well as with an action plan for student engagement. Visit
website to register.
Online for Humboldt County
May 12, 2021
3:30-4pm
Presented by Humboldt County Office of Education
Fee: No
Contact: Allison Poklemba
abp5@humboldt.edu
Visit
website for details.
Online
May 14-16, 2021
Presented by AEOE
Fee: $25-50
Contact Angie Kemsley,
angie@aeoe.org
Join us for two days of professional development, networking, and fun. The spring statewide 2021 conference includes workshops on a wide variety of topics, keynote address, evening entertainment, plenary session, presentations by our Environmental Educator Certification Program participants, and an awards ceremony celebrating the Environmental Education Organization of the Year and the Howard Bell lifetime award.
aeoe.org/Conference-2021
Online for Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
May 15, 2021
10-11am
Presented by Community Resources for Science and Scientific Adventures for Girls
Fee: No
Visit
website for details.
Online for Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
May 20, 2021
4-5pm
Presented by Community Resources for Science and The Watershed Project
Fee: No
Visit
website for details.
Online
May 21, 2021
10-10:45am
Presented by Nimbus Fish Hatchery
Fee: No
Find out which endangered species call California home andwhat their future may look like.
Visit
website to register.
Online
June 8, 15, 22, and 29, 2021
10-10:30am
Presented by Nimbus Fish Hatchery
Fee: No
Stories! Dancing! Pictures! Learning!
Visit
website to register for any of the dates.
Online
June 10, 2021
10-10:45am
Presented by Nimbus Fish Hatchery
Fee: No
Find out what an invasive species is and how to fight backagainst their spread.
Visit
website to register.
Online
July 15, 2021
11:00am-2:00pm
Presented by National Marine Educators Association
Fee: $5 plus NMEA Student membership fee
Visit
website for details.
Online
July 14-17, 2021
Presented by National Marine Educators Association
Visit
website for details.
Cambria, San Luis Obispo County
August 22-29, 2021
California Science Education Conference
Location TBD
October 8-10, 2021
Presented by California Association of Science Educators
Fee: Varies
Visit
website for details.
