Environmental Education Association of Alabama

Excellence in Environmental Education [ Founded in 1988 ]

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eeaa_seal_3grngrygrad_trnspWelcome to the Environmental Education Association of Alabama!

The Environmental Education Association of Alabama (EEAA), is a non-profit group educators and professionals involved in teaching about the environment. EEAA is an affiliate of the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE).Please Login via the Login or Register! block at left (or…Register if you haven't already, and then Login) to take advantage of various opportunities to professionally network with your colleagues on this site and get access to content reserved only for Registered Users.

Throughout the year, EEAA conducts Workshops, hosts an annual Conference, and offers Member Trips to various natural sites. The organization also sponsors an annual awards program, maintains free teaching trunks and offers financial grants to its membership.

 

Go Batty with EEAA this Summer

EEAA will be sponsoring a very special members’ trip this June and you could be one of the lucky ones if you hurry!!! After several years, EEAA will be returning to the Lubee Bat Conservancy in Gainesville, Florida and will be helping cover costs for 10 members to go. The program at Lubee will he held June 11-13, and EEAA will cover most of the cost of the program for 10 EEAA members to attend.

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"Hooray for Herps" Workshops to begin

legacy_license_plate_logo_trnspbgEEAA is partnering with Legacy, Inc. and ALAPARC to provide several environmental education workshops around the state of Alabama focused on reptiles and amphibians. We mentioned this workshop series in the last newsletter but now the first one has been scheduled. The first Hooray for Herps workshop will take place this spring at the Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center in Andalusia, Alabama on Saturday, March 13, 2010.

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Fossils & Flowers

Join Heather Montgomery and Dr. Jim Lacefield (the man who wrote the book on Alabama Geology) to explore the natural wonders of northwestern Alabama on April 17th! We'll go in search of the elusive yellow lady slipper in Cane Creek Preserve and then collect fossils such as crinoids, fenestella, brachiopods and hopefully blastoids and horn coral, too! Click here for all the details!

 
  • bsumrall
    — Mobile County (Region #11)
  • AUBecky
    Alabama 4-H Center — Chilton County (Region #7)
  • ehendrick
    — Jefferson County (Region #5)
  • cpetre87
    Troy University — Pike County (Region #10)


2011 EEAA Conference

Keep an eye out here for the 2011 EEAA Conference countdown with a link for more information.
(Until 2011 Conference plans are decided, the above time refers to this year's Conference anniversary.)
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On Education and Teaching…

Ralph Waldo EmersonIf the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson