Happy "Green" Holidays to Everyone!!!

• Keep your eyes open for solar & crank electronics that don't need batteries.
• There are also a wide variety of products made from reused and recycled material being sold on-line.
• Look for products made from SUSTAINABLE Natural Resources: Kenaf, Corn, Hemp, Jute, Organic Cotton.

Try typing "gifts recycled products" in a Google search, and you will be amazed at what you will find!

Log onto the SCARCE Website for more of our FAVORITE GREEN Gifts & Products, SCARCE Favorites.

• Make your own wrapping paper out of paper bags and stamped designs
• Shred old wrapping paper or newspaper and use as stuffing for gift bags
• Save the clear containers that baked goods & other food comes in, fill with your shredded paper, place your gift on top and finish with a ribbon.
• Use reusable gift or store bags - I package adult gifts in reusable grocery bags & a bow
• Make your own reusable cloth gift bags which can be returned to you to be used year after year
• Make recycled paper gift tags
  
  
  

• For ALL Educators - All Grades & Special Ed
• Discover how to use this interactive, birds-eye view of a watershed
• Take the complexity out of understanding serious environmental issues
• Learn to demonstrate "Point" and "Non-Point" Sources of Pollution
• Borrow the model for use in your own classrooms after taking this class
   

ENERGY BIKE WORKSHOPS FOR 4th-12th TEACHERS
Wednesday, January 14, 6:00-8:00 PM, 2 CPDUs 

• All 4th - 12th Grade Teachers
• Discover the "Enlightened" way to use the Energy Bike, a powerful, hands-on (and FEET-ON!) learning tool -Bring energy conservation to life for your student
• Help students of all ages move from the abstract to a concrete understanding of energy use as they "feel" how much energy it takes to light incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs
• Borrow the bike for your students to see & feel pedaling energy being transformed into light energy

 HS SUSTAINABLE DESIGN CHALLENGE - ORIENTATION
Thursday, January 15, 6:00-8:00 PM, Sign up with SCARCE

 Join us at SCARCE for pizza & soda as we discuss the details for this year's Challenge.
NEW & OLD Participants - We would LOVE your IDEAS & SUGGESTIONS!!! (and questions)
 

GROUNDWATER FLOW MODEL WORKSHOP

Saturday, January 17, 8:00 AM-Noon, 4 CPDUs

• For Middle & High School Science/Environmental Teachers
• Construct YOUR OWN Groundwater Flow model to take back to your school
• Actually SEE how groundwater moves & how water is affected by that movement
• Use this model to also teach about stormwater management
  

MAKE 'N TAKE A NATURAL RESOURCES GLOBE                     
Tuesday, January 20, 4:30-6:30 PM, 1.5 CPDUs

• ALL ES/Ms teachers (1st - 6th Grade)- Great for ECO-Club Sponsors, ESL, Alternative & Sp Ed teachers
• Make a "Natural Resources Globe," an interactive teaching tool that's filled with hands-on examples that allow students to SEE & FEEL our natural resources
• The globe helps your students learn about ISLS natural resources: how they are used, where they come from, differences between annually renewable, rapidly renewable, & non-renewable
  

Institute Day - February 27, 2009
Water Conservation: Water Quantity & Quality Issues
For any teacher concerned about our water
8:00 am - 2:00 pm, 5 CPDUs
 
Water, water everywhere, but...  What do you actually know about our water? How does it get here from Lake Michigan? How do we clean it? Are we really cleaning it? Why is stormwater management in the news? It's truly eye-opening!

Get on the bus with us & go to the DuPage Water Commission and Woodridge Green Valley Wastewater Treatment Facility. Learn to use our watershed and groundwater flow models.
 
Our workshops are jam-packed, fast-paced and filled with the resources, activities and ideas you need to make this come alive for your students while staying aligned with the Illinois State Learning Standards.

Click Here to Register Now!  SCARCE Teacher Workshop Registration

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