Saturday Seminar: Building Environmental Literacy across Content Areas

An overview of California Department of Education's recent moves toward a goal of Environmental Literacy for All, including the guiding principles and the strategic framework, and a look at how environmental literacy requires an interdisciplinary lens.

This is Your Brain on Paper: The Art and Science of Keeping a Nature Journal.
Open the door to rich discovery, better memory, and more fun in nature. What if you could change one simple thing and help students be more astute observers, curious explorers, creative thinkers, deliberate investigators, and better naturalists? You can: it is keeping a notebook to record discoveries and questions, and to help planning and documenting investigations. No tool has a more profound effect on the ability to see and think than a journal.

Speakers: Craig Strang, Assoc. Director, Lawrence Hall of Science; John Muir Laws, Naturalist and Educator