The conference, Refresh: New Tools and Techniques for Today's Educator, is on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at College of the Holy Cross, Hogan Campus Center, Worcester, MA.    

Workshops at the 2012 conference will share ideas for revitializing our education practice and the systems we use to promote environmental education. Resources wil include tools to promote positive environmental education with a wide variety of audiences in fresh, timely, and inspiring ways across the state.  You can expect a wonderful range of new ideas and opportunties ot learn from success stories and seasoned professionals in the field. Take a look at some themes for this year's conference, and read detailed descriptiosn about each workshop in our brochure, here.

DESIGN
B3 Lush Habitats: Schoolyard Design to Engage Children with MA Learning Standards
C3 The Green Dollhouse Challenge
B2 What Can You Learn By Observing? Using the Outdoors to Help Us Learn More Indoors

BIG IDEAS IN ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY AND SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION
A1 Cultivating Conservationists
B1 Reflect and Refresh: Keeping YOU and Your Audience Engaged in Invasive Species Detection
D3 Cultivating Conservationists- Using Farms to Teach Sustainability
C1 Big Ideas of Sustainability
D1 Environmental Literacy Plan
A10 Environmental Literacy Plans: Why, Where, How
D6 Diversity & Inclusion in Environmental Education: A Pragmatic Approach

USING TECHNOLOGY
A5 Air Quality: STEM Digital Project for Measuring Ozone in Your Environment
Bug Watch: One KEY to Watershed Education
B6 Using Technology for Ocean Education
A7 Developing a Website and Online Resources for Educators
C2 Computer Game Play to Enhance Learning
C8 The Digital Bird Watcher – New Tools for Building Fundamental Skills

TRIED AND TRUE TECHNIQUES
C4 The Sweet Art Of Maple Syrup
D4 Naturalist Program
A4 Ultimate Treasure Hunts and Orienteering For Schools
A6 Bark: Get to Know your Trees
B7 Using the River as a Classroom to Nurture Watershed Stewards
A8 WindWise Education and The KidWind Challenge
B9 Teambuilding and Cooperative Games – Implementing Experiential Education Practices into Environmental Education
B10 Curious to Learn: A Naturalist Round Table
D5 How Do We Get Kids Back Outdoors-and Curious
D7 Greening Your Cleaning -with kids
C7 Organizing Environmental Events at Schools

SERVICE LEARNING & CITIZEN SCIENCE
B8 Waste Watchers- An Evolving Environmental Service Learning Project
D2 Citizen Science, Saving the World One Frog at a Time
B4 This is MYCity - Letting Students Lead
C6 Firefly Watch: A Ready-made Citizen Science Project for your Organization

STORIES & GAMES TO LEARN
A2 "Turtle's New Home," a Wetlands Puppet Show
A9 Close Encounters of the Natural Kind
B5 Wooing and Wowing with Stories
C5 Learning About the Interconnections and Balance of Climate Change Through Games

SUPPORTING PROGRAMS
C9 Finding and Obtaining EE Program Resources
C10 Let’s Get Outside: Lessons from the first few months of a Toyota Tapestry Grant

Register soon for the 2012 MEES Conference!