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Announcements and Updates from EECOM 1. EECOM's 2009 Awards of Excellence in Environmental Education - Nominate an Outstanding Environmental Educator or Communicator in Your Community! 2. Get involved with one of EECOM's Volunteer Committees! 3. 5WEEC Photo Gallery Upcoming Events, Training and Conferences 1. Join the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s Learning Institute at historic Acadia University for our inaugural Summer Institute! July 4th - 11th, 2009 Acadia University Campus, Wolfville, Nova Scotia 2. Strengthening Stewardship: 4th National Stewardship & Conservation Conference July 8-11, 2009, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 3. World Changing Careers symposium July 23rd-27th, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. 4. Place, Experiences and the Socioecological (ECUR 498) - Two-week field course for teacher candidates and graduate students 5. WaterEDWest Conference - September 10-13, 2009, Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta 6. NAAEE's 38th Annual Conference October 7-10, 2009 Portland, Oregon ~Live Webcast: Future of EE in North America Thursday, October 8, 2009, 11:45 am - 1:15 pm ~ Online ~NAAEE Conference Scholarships Offered ~ Apply Now 7. Leading Complex Partnerships and Stakeholders Workshop 8. On Line Sustainability Courses and Professional Certification Programs News and Announcements from Members and Partners Awards, Grants, Contests 1. ECO Futures Scholarship Program for Grade 12 Students 2. Project Learning Tree(r) (PLT) GreenWorks! Grants Resources for Students and Educators 1. Going to Green Educators' Toolkit 2. Green Street is offering funding to public schools (K-12) 3. NCLI Video "Get 'em Outside" 4. How Green is My Town? 5. Treat it Right! Now in French Research and Publishing Opportunities 1. Call for Manuscripts -Special 2010 Issue of the Comparative Education Review 2. Seeking Graduate Students interested in Sustainability in Higher Education (SHE) Research 3. Thresholds in Education Journal Call for Manuscripts Deadline: August 1, 2009 Announcements 1. EE Survey - Invitation to Participate 2. Latest Trends in Canada’s Environment 3. Children & Nature News 4. Environmental Careers Compensation Report 2009 Read more - http://www.eecom.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=113&Itemid=40&lang=en Do you have an upcoming event to promote or an announcement that you would like to share?? Click here to post an announcement!

Plantwatch program teacher resources

The PlantWatch Teacher's Guide is now available to download at: www.plantwatch.ca by clicking on "Educator Resources." Curriculum links have been identified for every province and territory across Canada for grades six to eight. The Guide is divided into "Key Activity" sections detailing how to PlantWatch, and "Connections" which describe a range of math, science and social science activities that can be done in conjunction with PlantWatch to promote an interdisciplinary approach to learning.

The PlantWatch program enables "citizen scientists" to get involved by recording flowering times for selected plant species and reporting these dates to researchers through the Internet or by mail. When you submit your data electronically, it's added instantly to Web maps showing bloom dates across Canada, so your observations make a difference right away!

A joint venture between the Nature Canada and Environment Canada, our goal is to encourage Canadians of all ages to get involved in helping scientists discover how, and more importantly why, our natural environment is changing.

PlantWatch is part of our national NatureWatch series of volunteer monitoring programs designed to help identify ecological changes that may be affecting our environment.

PlantWatching has a long tradition and rich history. In 1750 the Swedish scientist and artist Linnaeus turned plantwatching into a systematic science. He made calendars of flowering times for 18 places in Sweden, also noting the exact climatic conditions at these times. This was the foundation of modern plant phenology which spread to many European countries and revealed, over the centuries, that some spring wildflowers are super-sensitive weather instruments!