The Wild Experience Room will provide free, hands-on, family-friendly activities on Saturday, March 20, as part of the 2010 Rivers and Wildlife Celebration at the Holiday Inn in Kearney, Nebraska.

The Wild Experience Room, organized by the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership, will be open 10 a.m.-3 p.m. "Live critter demonstrations" will include Birds of Prey, from Raptor Recovery Nebraska, at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., and Nebraska Snakes, with Dan Fogel, at 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Activities will include making bird feeders, folding paper cranes, making bird band bracelets, looking for compost creatures, and more.      wild experience room flyer no tabs.pdf

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C.S.I.

(Crane Scene Investigations)

The largest gathering of sandhill cranes in the world happens right here in Nebraska!   You and your students are invited to become Crane Scene Investigators and learn about these unique birds. 

C.S.I. is approximately 2 hours long and is designed with your students in mind and only available from the first of March through the first of April.  Dates and times fill fast, so make your reservations early!

Crane Cam

Crane Central

For downloadable educational videos,  be sure to check out CRANE CENTRAL on the CRANE CAM hosted by ESU 10.  Go to www.rowesanctuary.org   The DVD is also available in our Nature Store.

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Basic Clickers Workshop ~ March 24, 2010 ~ 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. ~ ESU 10 ~ Kearney

One of the hottest items in instructional technology is the use of “clickers” or audience response systems. Students use remotes to answer questions before, during, and after a lesson thereby allowing teachers to get instant feedback about student understanding. Dustin Frank will lead a workshop for eInstruction clickers using the Classroom Performance System (CPS). If you are using eInstruction clickers or want to learn more about what they can do, this workshop is for you!  To register go to: https://odie.esu10.org/
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Have you made reservations for your class to come see and learn about an event that happens nowhere else in the world except here in central Nebraska? I’m talking about the gathering of over 500,000 sandhill cranes.  People from around the globe come to see this phenomenon and your class should not miss out.

C.S.I. (Crane Scene Investigation) program is approximately two hours long and is designed with your students in mind.  It is only available from the first of March through the first of April when the cranes are here on the Platte River.  Dates and times are filling fast, so make your reservations soon!  Cost is $3.00 per student

Crane Cam will go live the weekend of March 6th and is again being hosted by ESU 10. THANKS ESU 10!

For downloadable educational videos about sandhill cranes, be sure to check out CRANE CENTRAL on our website. Go to www.rowesanctuary.org  The DVD is also available in our Nature Store.


NEW THIS YEAR!

Are you looking for a book with just enough good facts and trivia to spark in the novice crane-watcher an appreciation of these fascinating birds and at the same time a book that gives those long time watchers more insight into the behaviors they were seeing?  Well, we have the book for you.  It is called The Private Lives of Sandhill Cranes.  This easy-to-read resource is full of wonderful illustrations and maps and is on sale here at Rowe for $10.00.

For more information, just give me a call.  I look forward to working with you and your class.

Keanna Leonard
Education Director
Audubon's Rowe Sanctuary
44450 Elm Island Rd
Gibbon, NE  68840
308-468-5282
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Make your reservations today for CRANE SEASON!!!

For a Naturally Good Time come to First Sundays @ Rowe!

Know Rowe? Learn more at www.rowesanctuary.org or on Facebook.
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The Kearney Archway and Fort Kearny are offering some new special programming and pricing for the 150th anniversary of the Pony Express.  A field trip to the Archway and Fort Kearny would be a great way to celebrate this important historic event this spring!  The new sod house location on the prairie will be a great setting for the Archway’s program, and  the Archway and historic Fort Kearny both welcome schools with sack lunches!

Attached are flyers for their events.

Archway Pony Express program.pdf
Pony Express at Ft Kearny (2).pdf
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This looks like a REALLY fun project to do with your students!  If you have wanted to try blogging with students or some other collaborative, global projects, this is the one for you!  Check out this project web site! Even if you only want to try a portion of this, I think it would be worth your time.  This is for students from k-7th grade and it was started by a 2nd grade teacher!  Check it out and let me know if you want help!

http://sites.google.com/site/misschatz/home
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Nebraska Game and Parks invite all fourth, fifth and sixth grade students to their 4th Annual Outdoor School Day Expo on either Thursday, May 13 or Friday, May 14 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The event will be held at Fort Kearney State Recreation Area and is a free educational event.  Over 40 diverse hands-on activities and demonstrations that correlate with Nebraska State Standards in the areas of science, math, history, reading and writing are offered. 

Registration begins January 20, 2010.  Attached is the Teacher's Guide and Registration Instructions.

 Teachers Guide Packet 2010.pdf

Registration Instructions - Fort kearny.doc
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Here are a few web sites that I thought you would like. 

This last link is a video from a student demonstrating how her 7th grade science class is being run.  This looked like a very engaging science class!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEls3tq5wIY&feature=youtu.be&a
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In this series we are featuring nine webinars on Marzano's instructional strategies. Each webinar will focus on the how to use specific instructional strategies in your classroom as well as technology tips and tricks to integrate along the way!

Each webinar is a one-hour session from 4-5PM.  A day or so before the webinar, you will receive an email with instructions and the website for the webinar.

There is no driving or weather worries, all you need is a computer! Choose just one webinar to attend or choose them all! These are great refreshers if you attended Classroom Instruction That Works this last summer! Even if you don't know anything about these instructional strategies, please join us and find out all the easy ways of engaging and reaching your students.

Summarizing and Note Taking - January 19, 2010
Reinforcing Effort/Receiving Feedback - February 2, 2010
Homework and Practice - February 16, 2010
Non-Linguistic Representation - March 2, 2010
Cooperative Learning - March 23, 2010
Setting Objectives/Providing Feedback - April 6, 2010
Generating and Testing Hypothesis - April 20, 2010
Ques, Questions, and Advanced Organizers - May 4, 2010
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Recently, I came across these winter/holiday activities and thought i would share them with you.  Let me know what you think of these! 

What are some of the winter or holiday activities you do with your students this time of year?

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