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National Environmental Education Week 2007
Start planning to celebrate Earth Day and the third annual National Environmental
Education Week, April 15-22, 2007, at your camp!
National Environmental Education Week (NEEW, www.eeweek.org )
is a weeklong learning event that maximizes the educational impact of Earth Day
and promotes environmental education and literacy in a host of venues around
the country. Last year, over 100,000 educators and 3 million students at 50,000
schools, 330 universities and numerous zoos, aquariums, and nature centers took
part in NEEW 2006.
Register online today for
National Environmental Education Week.
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New Study: Understanding Cultural Differences
The cultures and ethnicities of today's
youth paint a picture rich in diversity.
Understanding these unique differences has become a core competency among youth
workers and others in the out-of-school time field. Cultural
Competence (PDF),
what it is and ways to build it are the focus of Child Trends' newest research
brief.
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Mentoring Youth With Disabilities
A Web site is now available to help you
learn more about the unique opportunities
and challenges in mentoring children with disabilities. Partners for Youth with
Disabilities has launched the online National
Center for Mentoring Youth with Disabilities.
The Web site provides information about best practices, opportunities for training
and technical assistance, as well as a schedule of conferences. The site also
includes an online guidebook describing strategies for mentoring youth with disabilities
and practical strategies for starting, developing and evaluating programs.
Source: IYI
Weekly Update, February 19,
2007, Indiana Youth Institute.
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American Diabetes Association Offers Free
Lesson Plans
The American Diabetes Association (ADA)
is making available a new Arthur® Hooray
for Health! Dealing with Diabetes lesson plan created by WGBH Boston. The materials
feature Arthur, the world's most famous aardvark, and are geared towards students
in preschool through fourth grade.
The lesson plan seeks to educate teachers,
after-school providers, school nurses,
and students about diabetes, and offers
a variety of fun activities and resources,
including classroom activities and handouts,
recommended books and Web sites, and family
activity sheets in English and Spanish. WGBH
worked in collaboration with the ADA and
Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston to produce
the lesson plan.
The lesson plan is available for free by
contacting the ADA at 1-800-DIABETES or visiting www.diabetes.org/for-parents-and-kids/arthur.jsp. It
is also available on the Arthur
Web site,
along with a variety of other classroom
and family resources related to the Arthur
Hooray for Health! curriculum.
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