Outdoor and Environmental Education

News, Events & Announcements

• NEW! Check out our new Special Events pages, listing lots of great events for kids! Go to the webpage
   

• Nassau County Middle School Science Expo:
  This event is designed for 7th and 8th grade students who enjoy doing Science projects! Over 80 students from 10 districts will meet on April 13, 2010 at Molloy's Suffolk Center. Click here for more information.
   

• Professional Development: We've added many more opportunities You may also register on My Learning Plan. Go to the webpage for more information
   

• A MUST read!
  "Last Child in the Woods - Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder" by Richard Louv (publisher: Algonquin Books, May 2005;
  ISBN 1565123913
  Click here for a commentary on the book
   

Past News/Events:

• Learning Net Summer Institute in Boulder Colorado! Meet researchers, get the latest in climate change curricula and more...
  Download conference brochure
   

• New! The Inquiring Eye
  Join us at the Nassau County Museum of Art, June 29 through July, 2, 2009  for an experience that will provide you with a new look at our world. As you develop your observational skills, you will work with colleagues and artists to make inter-disciplinary connections for the classroom to bring awareness to your students. Guest artists that will be in attendance each day. Register through My Learning Plan or with the registration form. Click here for the brochure.
   

• Giant Maps and EarthBalloon Open House
  is scheduled for March 26, 2009 at the Molloy Suffolk Center in Farmingdale. Download the flyer for times and directions and call us to RSVP: 516-396-2264
   

• LINCK CONFERENCE: March 12, 2009
  For more information go to
  www.linck.org

  • SAVE the Date Postcard

  • List of invited Speakers

  • Registration Form

  • Full Conference Brochure
     

• EarthBalloon Open House is scheduled for December 15, 2008 and March 26, 2009 at the Molloy Suffolk Center in Farmingdale. Download the flyer and call us to RSVP: 516-396-2264
   

• Project WILD Workshop!
  The New York State Outdoor Education Association (NYSOEA) and  Nassau BOCES Outdoor Education present a Project WILD workshop for teachers and outdoor educators.

  Date:   Saturday, January 22, 2005
  Time:   9:30 am — 2 pm
  Place:  Nassau BOCES
             Brookville Outdoor &
             Environmental Education
             Center
   

• Program Specialist Bill Monahan is announced as New York State Outdoor Education Association's "Outdoor Educator of the Year" The award ceremony was held during the annual conference, November 4-7, 2004 at the Montauk Yacht Club. See the NYSOEA website for more information:  
   http://www.nysoea.org/welcome.htm  
   

• JASON Guest Speaker Day!
  On Friday, November 19, 2004, we had three speakers come and talk about Disappearing Wetlands. See a copy of the day's agenda. Our speakers have been generous in allowing us to post their Power point presentations:
  
  - What's a Tidal Wetland? Karen Chytalo, from the
  Bureau of Marine Resources, NYSDEC presented on how wetlands are mapped and regulated and the new evidence for loss of wetlands for our regions of Long Island, NYC and the Hudson River.
  PowerPoint presentation: Tidal Wetlands: What are They? Where are They and Are they Changing?
  Movie: Specialized dredge, placing sediments on Big Egg marsh, Jamaica Bay, to restore lost low marsh tidal wetlands.
  
  - Notes from the Field: Kristin Goodrich, former student argo and this year's video host reflected on her time in Louisiana. The PowerPoint is a collection of her photos from her experience.
  PowerPoint presentation

  - Wetlands Wrap-up - Linking Louisiana and Long Island:  Bill Monahan, BOCES Program Specialist and site director at Caumsett State Historic Park, compared the different wetland habitats on Long Island with those found in Louisiana.  Long Island is an exciting place, too!
  PowerPoint Presentation

  Past presentations:   
  - Pacific Kelp: presented by Bill Monahan for the JASON Channel Islands Expedition. click here for a PowerPoint!
                      
   - Invasive Plants on Long Island: presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension-  click here for a PowerPoint!